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Pathways to Purpose: Student Readings

Pathways to Purposes was part of the Spring Hill College Quality Enhancement Plan.  The official initiative completed in 2021 but this resource guide will remain available to the SHC community.  Pathways to Purpose encourages students, staff, and faculty

Novice Readings

Intermediate Readings

Damon, W. (2008). Who is thriving and who is not yet on course?. In The path to purpose: Helping our children find their calling in life (pp. 49-76). New York, NY: Free Press.

Parks, S. D. (2011). To mend a world. In Big questions, worthy dreams: Mentoring emerging adults in their search for meaning, purpose, and faith (pp. 161-163). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Thompson, H. S. Letter to Hume

Advanced Readings

Wadell, P. J. (2008). Finding a story worth handing on. In Happiness and the Christian moral life: An introduction to Christian ethics (pp. 76-104). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

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