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When some Harvard students heard about Mel Gibson’s most recent film, they joined the growing controversy surrounding it with heated words in House dining halls or over open e-mail lists. But Gibson’s contentious The Passion of the Christ has inspired Elizabeth A. Goldhirsh, a 25 year-old student at the Divinity School, to put her money where the mouths were, offering $100,000 of her own trust fund as prize money in a new theological essay contest...
...Goldhirsh says she decided to start the contest this past spring to bridge religious gaps, funding it with money she inherited from her father, who died last summer from a brain tumor...