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Below are the various readings Scholars and Mentors have discussed in past dinners:

2022-2023 Academic Year

• Fall 2022 -  
  ("Augustine as Mentor" by Edward L. Smither, Ch. 3
  
• Late Fall 2022 -  ("Teaching Community: A Pegagogy of Hope by bell hooks, Ch 11)
  
  
• Winter 2023 - 
  
  
• Spring 2023 - 

2021-2022 Academic Year

• Fall 2021 -  ("Academic Life: Hospitality, Ethics and Spirituality", Ch 3)
  
• Late Fall 2021 -  ("The Things Around Your Neck" pp 142-166, 2009)
  
• Winter 2022 - " ("On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real World Spirituality for Restless Hearts")
  
• Spring 2022 - 
  

2020–2021 Academic Year

• Fall 2020— (A Testament of Devotion, Ch. 5)
• Late Fall 2020— (Delivered as a Speech at the conference "Spirituality and Healing" 1994)
  
• Winter 2021 - 
  
• Spring 2021 - 
  Leading Questions for "The Hill We Climb"

2019–2020 Academic Year

• Fall 2019—"Seeking the Place of Conscience in Higher Education: An Augustinian View" by Ian Clausen (edited version of Religions, 2015, 6, 286-298)
  
  
• Late Fall 2019—"Babette's Feast" by Isak Dinesen
  Leading Questions for Babette's Feast

• Winter 2020—"Glad Intellectual Dependence on God: A Theistic Account of Intellectual Humility" by Peter C. Hill, Kent Dunnington, and M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall. (The Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 2018, 37, No 3, Pages 195-204.
  Leading Questions for "Glad Intellectual Dependence on God"

• Spring 2020—"Why Work?" by Dorothy Sayers
  Leading Questions  

2018–2019 Academic Year

• Fall 2018—"Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America" by Mark R. Schwehn (Ch. 3 - Spirited Inquiry)
  —Leading Discussion Question for evening
  
  
• Late Fall 2018—"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Connor
  —Audio of Flannery O'Connor reading "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"
  —Leading Questions
  
  
• Winter 2018-2019—"The Screwtape Letters: Letters I, II, XXV, XXVII" by C.S. Lewis 
  —Leading Questions for Screwtape Letters
  
  
• Spring 2019—"Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual: Outlines of the Life of the Mind" by Paul J. Griffiths 
  —Leading Questions for Screwtape Letters       

2017–2018 Academic Year

• ³§±è°ù¾±²Ô²µâ€”"Character and Vocation" by Douglas and Rhoda Jacobsen (Ch. 10 - No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education)
• °Â¾±²Ô³Ù±ð°ù—&±ç³Ü´Ç³Ù;Why Believe?" by John Cottingham  (Ch. 1 - Belief & its Benefits)
• Late ¹ó²¹±ô±ô—&±ç³Ü´Ç³Ù;Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling" by James W. Sire  (Ch. VII - The Intellectual Disciplines)
• ¹ó²¹±ô±ô—&±ç³Ü´Ç³Ù;What a Student Owes His Teacher" by James V. Schall, SJ  and "Convictions" by Douglas and Rhoda Jacobsen (Ch. 9 - No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education)

2016-2017 Academic Year

• Spring 2017—"Courage & Calling: Embracing Your God-given Potential" by Gordon Smith
• Winter 2017—"Augustine and Liberal Education" by Kim Pattenroth and Kevin Hughes (editors)
• Late ¹ó²¹±ô±ô—"Faith and the Life of the Intellect" by Curtis Hancock and Brendan Sweetman
• ¹ó²¹±ô±ô—"St. Augustine: Continuum Library of Educational Thought" by Ryan Topping