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It’s not easy being one of the only witches at Harvard, but then again, being a witch has never been easy for Quincy House resident Devon G. Castillo ’08. Converting to Wicca was challenging for Castillo, who was raised by conservative Southern Baptist grandparents. Castillo, who always felt slightly out of place in church, disagreed with parts of the Christian faith and turned to Wicca, a neo-pagan, earth-centered religion. “It was sort of wild [when I converted].” Castillo says. “My grandmother thought...
...feel a call to minister outside of the ecclesiastical sector. THE OTHER MINISTRYMatthew E. Nelson grew up in the Catholic Church but, disenchanted, jumped ship after his confirmation. He became an evangelical Christian and went to college at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio, a school affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. In college, he discovered that he was gay, and he kept it a secret for fear of expulsion or ex-gay therapy. But at the end of his sophomore year, he read Richard B. Hays’ “The Moral Vision of the New Testament?...
...their meetings as welcoming as possible. “We don’t want to be a clique,” Lee says.The HRCF is totally non-denominational, and meetings play host to a range of speakers, and depending on when you walk in, you might hear a baptist hymn, a Southern spiritual, or a piece of high church music. They even avoid using language specific to any particular denomination to avoid excluding visitors of different faiths. Over at the CSA, the biggest night of the week comes on Sunday, when hundreds of students attend mass in the basement...
...keynoted the symposium, delivering a scathing indictment of the Bush administration’s management of the federal emergency preparedness system. Witt, the Clinton-appointed director of FEMA from 1993 to 2001, also called for active student and academic involvement in disaster management. Citing a maxim from an Argentine Baptist minister, Witt said that “if we are not part of planting the trees of the future, we do not deserve to stand in the shade of the trees of the past.” Witt oversaw the elevation of FEMA to a Cabinet-level agency under former...
Critics fret that small, pastorless groups can become doctrinally or even socially unmoored. Thom Rainer, a Southern Baptist who has written extensively on church growth, says, "I have no problem with where a church meets, [but] I do think that there are some house churches that, in their desire to move in different directions, have perhaps moved from biblical accountability." In extreme circumstances home churches dominated by magnetic but unorthodox leaders can shade over the line into cults...