09/21/2026
The most recent issue of Chicago Studies (spring/summer 2025) invites you to live in the light of Christ and see through the eyes of hope.
Read articles on Bethlehem University, the virtue of hope, the eucharistic form of priestly life, & marriage in the new issue of Chicago Studies.
• In his 2025 Meyer Lecture at the University of St. Mary of the Lake, Br. Peter Bray, FSC, describes how Bethlehem University, where he served as president for many years, shines as a beacon of hope amid the tragic and conflictual situation in Palestine, urging that we all work for peace, justice, and healing.
• In his response to Br. Peter Bray’s Meyer Lecture, Fr. John Guthrie poetically describes the power of Christian hope to move us from numbness and despair to expression and connection, insisting that we can receive this hope as a divine gift even in seemingly hopeless circumstances.
• In his response to Br. Peter Bray’s Meyer Lecture, Fr. Ray Webb pulls on his extensive knowledge and experience of the Holy Land to recount the amazing stories of transformation and hope he witnessed despite—and through—great hardship.
• Dr. Kevin Magas draws on the work of Louis Bouyer to argue for the intrinsically eucharistic nature of priestly life and spirituality.
• Fr. Sean Lee masterfully employs personalist philosophy to sketch an account of marriage as a “whole of two wholes,” arguing that only an “I-Thou” relationship can embody the Trinitarian love on which Christian marriage is modeled.
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