Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps more than anyone else I've met here atHarvard, Lee knew how to be reassuring. He put alot more faith in me than I could ever put inmyself--and in a place where everyone is obsessedwith their own sense of achievement and "success,"that's no small thing...
What started out as a blind faith that God heeded the fall of the sparrow (even if He couldn't stop it from accelerating downwards at -9.8 meters per second squared) turned into an exploration of my religious heritage that soon became the most important legacy of my Harvard experience to date...
...whether or not one chooses to study it academically, practicing religion at Harvard can be a difficult business. Though support can be found within the student groups like Hillel and Catholic Students Association, one sometimes feels that the secular university community considers faith to be incompatible with rationality, pluralism or liberalism...
...this is the belief that traditionally motivates religious individuals, it's perceived here as a threat to pluralism or a perpetuation of Eurocentrism: who are you to say your heritage is better than another's? Religious students I know have often felt pressured to act as if their personal faith were a "lifestyle choice" like choosing to dye your hair blonde...
...left in effect ratify Little's worst fears, asserting that the church is at the beginning of massive disruption. Sister Anne E. Patrick of Carleton College in Minnesota says that "we're dealing with cultural change on the scale of the 1st century, when Gentiles entered the Christian faith without adopting Jewish practices." Similarly, Rosemary Radford Ruether, a radical Catholic who teaches at a Methodist seminary in Illinois, says the church could be facing its most intense conflict in centuries. As she sees it, the choice is between "genuine transformation into an open community" and "retrenchment as a Roman sect...