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...other hand, Richard T. Halvorson ’03, the “resident sage” of HSS and a member of CI, sees the discussions as an opportunity for students to move one step closer to truth. “Anyone who is seeking truth with intellectual honesty will have doubts because they will see the force of the other side’s position. Doubt is a sign of honest reflection. I participated in the discussions to continue learning and thinking...
...frosh weekend, Richard T. Halvorson ’03, a philosophy and government concentrator in Pforzheimer House, dragged the people he’d met that day to meetings of the Harvard Secular Society. Raised a Catholic, Halvorson was fascinated by Buddhism and secular humanism in high school, yet Christianity beckoned. Halvorson, drawn to what he saw as the historical validity of the New Testament and the answers it offered to his philosophical questions, made a decision to become a Christian the summer before he arrived at school...
Still, in his first year, Halvorson became active in the Harvard Secular Society. In high school, he’d engaged in e-mail dialogues with the authors of books on secular humanism and atheism, asking them for the most convincing arguments against God. He had asked professors, teachers, friends. “I wanted the strongest arguments against the things that I was starting to believe,” he says...
Last summer, while interning in Washington, Germer began spending time with other rising Harvard juniors who were also working in the city, three of whom were committed Christians: Halvorson, Grizzle and Heather A. Woodruff ’03, another leader of Christian Impact. Germer, who says she had been going through difficult emotional times with her friends at school, began asking questions about their faith and their lifestyle...
...Crimson’s reporting on ethnic studies has been somewhat uneven this current academic year. After some incomplete coverage in the fall, an excellent account of the issues by Richard T. Halvorson ’03 appeared in February (News: “Protests Targets Course Diversity,” Feb. 13) and a thoughtful opinion piece by Stephen E. Sachs ’02 (Column: “A Different Ethnic Studies,” March 5) followed. These pieces notwithstanding, some older and some more recent reporting and opinion pieces deserve a few words of clarification...