My initial feeling with Durka is that a somewhat unclear writing style presents a barrier to her audience. I often am left wondering exactly what point she is trying to make, having read a seemingly jumbled collection of ideas left underdeveloped and unexplored.
Nevertheless, she introduces three concepts which have great merit for enriching our understanding of our calling. Even more, these concepts seem themselves to be drawn from the body of our inherited Catholic wisdom. "Passion for the Possible," "Teaching by Design," and "Designing a Holy Work" could as easily be called "Hope (being one of the three theological virtures, and a favorite of St. Paul) in Teaching," and the last two as "Formation: A Christian Anthropology of Education." What I mean to point out is that Durka is making good points about an authentic approach to teaching, but that if we retrieve the explicitly Christian language we will have gone to a font much deeper, crisper and more refreshing than Whitman, Lao Tzu, or Yeats. The valuable concepts will have become sacred truths.
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