Word: hrcf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outstanding article on fundamentalist Christians at Harvard. It was one of the best-written and objective pieces of journalism that I have ever read. However, I would like to make a few comments. First of all, I know of no one in the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) who would claim that our group comprises all of the Christians at Harvard. The Church is not bound by any single denomination, much less by a single undergraduate organization, and I affirm the right of my brothers and sisters in Christ to call themselves Christians regardless of whether or not they attend...
...HRCF is a very diverse group, and it would be impossible to describe it with perfect accuracy, but your article came quite close. J. Barry Vaughn...
...difficult to tell how many "born again" Christians there are in pagan Harvard, although HRCF figures help a little. Fellowship executives estimate there are about 70 to 100 core members of the group. Since one of the strong corollaries of the Christians' creed is the desirability of sharing their faith with others, they are most likely to be found in one or another of the University religious organizations, like a new Christian athletes group, small Bible seminars, a "discipleship" organized by the Fellowship, or in a more diverse group like the Catholic Student Center...
...increasing along with the recent national publicity prompted by the election of Jimmy Carter, although given the nature of the Christian belief the two phenomena are unlikely to be related. Stephen Crist '78, this year's fellowship president, says that more freshmen than ever before are answering HRCF mass mailings and signing up at registration, although he notes there has been no astronomical growth in the realtively large organization...
They believe in the deity and humanity of Jesus, the integrity and authority of the Bible, and the historic fact of the resurrection of Jesus, to paraphrase the HRCF constitution...