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...Radcliffe Christian Fellowship a good amount,” he recalls. “This year I’ve been to one HRCF meeting and that has been it. The closest I come to anything religious is when I eat next to one of my blockmates and they pray before they eat their food.” While his church visits ground to a halt, his downloading of pornography did not. With a faster ethernet connection, Michael spends less time searching for porn but still considers it a regular part of his week. “I have...
...counter-protesters were civil. But there was tension, nonetheless. There was shouting. There were scowls. There were rowdy passers-by who antagonized both sides. The low-point was overhearing a counter-protester tell an anti-Arab joke to his friends. (I did not recognize this individual and I pray that he is not a member of the Harvard community.) And there was the sheer awkwardness of looking across the street and seeing one’s friends and classmates vehemently protesting against what I feel is a just cause...
Ashraf said she and another student who is currently on leave came up with the idea for the room last year when they realized there was no non-religious space for students to pray or meditate on campus...
...years along, I can still pass as healthy most of the time, or could until this week; but there has been a slight pang of disloyalty to the cause in doing so. A woman with multiple sclerosis once said to me, unknowingly, about disease activists in general: "We all pray for someone famous to get our disease." Although I am a very minor public figure compared with the Pope--let alone Michael J. Fox!--I haven't been doing...
...terrorism. It is all too easy to slip into an attitude of vengeance. I take consolation from the fact that there are people in this world who provide a necessary balance to knee-jerk reactions, as reasonable as these reactions may seem at first. I can only pray that I may travel the path of peace, forgiveness and hope throughout these troubled times. I will fail miserably in this task without a rational and moderate religious perspective in my heart to guide me. BARBARA OZBURN Waterloo...