Word: faithful
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...Faith heals all right, but it is debatable whether the faith has to be religious. Total faith in a doctor also eases pain and accelerates recovery. Perhaps it is the persevering faith of the patient and not God or the doctor that actually heals. Maheshkumar Mathilakath, SHARJAH, U.A.E...
...When it began, it consisted of nine men preparing for lives of contemplation and self-denial in the Protestant ministry. Now, it consists of 6,700 undergraduate men and women preparing for lives of contemplation and self-denial in the current economy. With the demise of the Reason and Faith requirement in the new General Education system, religion at Harvard seems to have completed its trajectory from prime focus of the classroom to just another extracurricular activity. On the Harvard website, “Religious Groups” inhabit a drop-down menu of activities cheek-by-jowl with...
...inside and outside the classroom. Harvard is a wondrously tolerant climate for debate and exchange among a wide variety of thoughts, backgrounds, and beliefs, but the voice of religion on campus is largely inaudible. In fact, if there were no food involved, it might be completely silent. Nearly everything faith-related that I have done at Harvard has been followed by free food, from going to services at Harvard’s Episcopal Chaplaincy to attending a day of interfaith discussion and dialogue hosted by the university chaplains in the fall. And that was exciting! After a fast-breaking...
...Indeed, even the people who in 2006 decided against including Reason and Faith in the Gen Ed requirements did so not because they did not consider religion worth studying, but because they felt that “courses dealing with religion—both those examining normative reasoning in a religious context and those engaging in a descriptive examination of the roles that religion plays today and has historically played—can be readily accommodated in other categories.” Harvard students are famous for allowing certain categories of learning outside their comfort zones to slip into obscurity?...
...rise through the ranks to become president of that fly-fishing club, and “attended church” looks funny on your resume. This is why it is critical that Harvard students get the chance to engage with religion inside the classroom as well as beyond. Otherwise, faith runs the risk of becoming just like Memorial Church—something that’s clearly there at Harvard but most students are too busy to look into...