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Indeed, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes thinks that leafleting isn’t the way into people’s hearts. “Most students don’t discover religion through the history of the school, or the churches in the square,” he says. “They discover it either through other students or in the course of their studies...
...that Harvard had only one business—training young men for deployment into the ministry. And it wasn’t overnight that it transformed into the famously secular research university we know today. Rather, the movement gathered momentum gradually, propelled by intellectual leaders who, while using Christianity as an implicit foundation, believed above all in the advancement of scientific and academic knowledge.For the Puritans who founded the College, separating God from academia was unthinkable. “The whole notion of a secular entity was unheard of,” says Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter...
Although she would have a hard time convincing many Harvard students, Meghan E. Grizzle ’07 says “abstinence until marriage is the most freeing, healthiest, and most beneficial decision men and women can make.” This passionate Christian, like more than 20,000 others a member of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, was in for a shock when she arrived at Harvard. Growing up in deeply conservative Orange County, “I thought that all evangelical and Protestant Christians were Republicans and all Republicans were Christians,” she says...
...even those in the supposedly pre-professional MDiv program. Some will eventually choose ordination, but others might 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...
Harvard does indeed have a high degree of flexibility, especially in contrast to Georgetown University, the other winner of Alwaleed’s grant. Georgetown, which is affiliated with the Jesuit order, plans to put the $20 million toward its existing Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding...