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Elizabeth P. Shen ’10, the daughter of Protestant immigrants from China, is on the executive board of the AACF. Coming from an Asian community in Southern California, Shen says that there are values shared by her Chinese culture and her Christian beliefs.
“When we came along, people weren’t separating out belief from participation. Scholars were looking at institutions, religion markets, that kind of thing, but we were saying, ‘Why don’t we look at Weber?” said McCleary, referring...
Are there any areas in which the U.S. and Europe are vastly different? Religion. That's where the differences remain the biggest. I think it's generally true that Americans are more religious than Europeans. The U.S. is more comparable to Mediterranean Catholic nations than the Protestant nations of Northern...
Owners and coaches try to take care of their players physically, financially and psychologically, but they understand that players have spiritual needs too. And the more the players are spiritually at peace, the more they can focus on the game. Some teams favor a group approach - the Indianapolis Colts, for...
For hundreds of years, the most powerful voices in American society branded gambling a wicked sport—spittle in the face of the Protestant work ethic. Puritans drafted the first gambling regulations in the New World with self-satisfied relish. “If asked to name the greatest...