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...Salvation Army has a devoutly religious mission, rooted in its founding in 1865 by an evangelical protestant minister (and former pawn broker) named William Booth, whose early motivation was to convert poor Londoners - and eventually prostitutes, gamblers and alcoholics - to Christianity. Recognizing that his followers needed more than just religion to improve their lives - and that the way to attract the destitute was the provide services - Booth provided meals, clothing and other assistance to his early converts. He was famous for saying, "Nobody ever got saved while they had a toothache." The quasi-military name "Salvation Army" was given...
...basement of Shenandoah University's Goodson Chapel one chilly November Sunday morning, John Copenhaver, a tall, white-haired professor of philosophy and religion, folded at the waist to demonstrate how to bow like a monk. The eight students clustered around him watched closely. One, taking stock of the incredulous faces around him, volunteered the group's unofficial credo: When in doubt, "find an old person, and do what they...
...trips last fall with his wife Rhonda, a Methodist pastor and the dean of spiritual life, to help students deepen their faith by expanding it. Research suggests that like everything else in one's college years, spirituality is a protean thing. Most high schoolers tend to follow their parents' religion, often without actually knowing many of its basic tenets and stories (half of U.S. high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married). That may be why religion doesn't stick once they go off to college: a UCLA study published in 2007 found that undergrads become less observant...
...wife felt comfortable leaving the House mastership because they are satisfied with the state in which they will leave Pforzheimer. Next year, McCarthy will take a sabbatical during which he will work on a book, develop a new General Education course, and research the intersection of religion and science. He added that his wife will devote some of her free time to quilting. But the professor said he would miss Pforzheimer’s “extraordinary sense of community.” “Every day I have a fascinating discussion with a student...
Republican Party • record-breaking unpopularity of •religion is blamed for record-breaking unpopularity...