Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz teach the most in-demand course in Yale College's Humanities Program: Life Worth Living. Students describe the course as life changing, and preliminary analyses by an outside researcher show strongly significant effects of the course on students' sense of meaning in life.
Volf
is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, and was awarded the 2002 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for
Exclusion and Embrace, which was named one of the one hundred most influential religious books of the twentieth century.
Croasmun
is the director of the Life Worth Living program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, a lecturer in humanities at Yale College, and the faith initiative director at Grace Farms Foundation. He is the author of
The Emergence of Sin and
Let Me Ask You a Question, as well as a coauthor with Volf of
For the Life of the World: Theology That Makes a Difference.
McAnnally-Linz is the associate director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. He is a coauthor with Volf of
The Home of God and
Public Faith in Action, a 2016
Publishers Weekly Best Book in religion, and has written for
The Washington Post's
Acts of Faith blog,
Sojourners, and
The Christian Century.