A Heart for Beauty, Responsible Citizenship, & Laudato Si'

Universal Voices is back with an all new A Heart For mini-series. In this episode, Alissa welcomes Alexander Walton. Alissa invites Alexander in to discuss his time in a Laudato Si' Fellowship Program through the National Religious Partnership for the Environment and the USCCB. The two talk of the program as well as a host of other topics including: 

• Christ as the Morning Star.
• Grappling with our tradition as gift to the Church.
• Alexander's background in philosophy.
• The interconnectedness of all things.
• Pope Francis as conversation starter.
• Being a good neighbor as an extension of our citizenship.
• Learning and leaning into more than one thing.
• Hope.

Alexander Walton is an alumnus of Morehouse College, where he graduated with Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude honors while earning a Bachelor of Arts in political philosophy and early modern English literature. Walton has completed fellowships, attended seminars, and conducted research on political philosophy, theology, constitutional law, Shakespeare, and Milton at the University of Dallas, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, the Hertog Foundation, the Thomistic Institute, and the Dominican House of Studies. In Walton’s free time, he enjoys weight training, singing, and creative writing.