100 Days of Dante - Again!

 Baylor's Honor's College is doing 100 Days of Dante again. For those of us who missed it last year, here's another opportunity. Since I started late last year I had to play catch up, but it was worth it and I plan on taking the journey again beginning August 31. 

For the most part, the presenters are very good; there were a couple that weren't. Each presentation usually lasts from 7 - 12 minutes, some are a bit longer. The presenters come from various traditions, Protestant and Catholic, and from both North America and Europe.

This is unfamiliar territory for most of us, but that's the way we learn and are challenged. For sure, the Inferno ought to remind us that sin is real and not to be trifled with. As for Purgatory, the principles contained in it are well worth pondering; frankly, at this stage of my life I am convinced that we experience Purgatory one way or another. And by the way, just to clear things up - and even some of my Catholic friends don't know this - Purgatory isn't about getting a "second chance at salvation." Only those who know Christ already can enter Purgatory. I've experience a good bit of Purgatory in this life...what about you?

As for Paradise, I dearly love this section of the Divine Comedy - can you possibly improve on, "In His will is our peace"? This is a wonderful taste of God's glory and our eternal destiny.

Okay, that's my pitch for Dante!

Info is below - you may have to click on the Baylor link twice, once on this page and once on the next page.

Much everlasting love,

Bob

Dante Lovers, We are back! Maybe you made it all the way through Paradise, and want to make the journey again. Or maybe you got bogged down in Purgatory and want to start over. Either way, we are inviting you to participate once again in the world's largest reading group of Dante's Divine Comedy.   Starting August 31st, we are going to be sending emails with videos and questions every Monday/Wednesday/Friday, until Easter. If you want to join, head over to our newly redesigned website and sign up with your email for the reading plan that starts on August 31st. If you don't, you will not hear from us again until we have some new, cool project that we want to tell you about. That's right: you will only receive emails if you sign up again at 100DaysofDante.com. When you get there, you'll discover that you can also sign up for the "power user" plan, which gives you 100 emails in 100 consecutive days. Go for it! Whatever you decide, we would love it if you would forward this email to three friends from church, work, or school and help us form the world's largest Dante reading group (again). Until our paths cross again, then, thanks for your support of this project. Let's keep reading together. -The 100 Days team