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VanDyke Colby, director of church relations at the historically Methodist university in Winchester, Va., started the religious road 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...
...students riffed on transubstantiation, the historical roots of incense and why it's not O.K. to pour Communion wine down the drain ("You're not going to flush Jesus," noted Rhonda VanDyke Colby); other weeks, the conversation runs the gamut from politics to premarital sex. "The first task is deconstructing what people think they know," she says. "A rigorous faith is going to serve them well. A rigid one is going to break when the first strong wind comes along." Several past participants have joined new churches; others say they've come to a deeper understanding of God. In some...
Genesis, chapter 2 verse 24, says a man "shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh." But how liberally to define cleave? That was the very special Bible query the Rev. Stacy Spencer and his wife Rhonda took up last month with 252 married people at their New Direction Christian Church in Memphis, Tenn. And the Spencers' answer was ... encouraging. Does frequent sex have a place in marriage? Yep. Oral sex? Read the Song of Solomon 2: 3 for assurance. How about role-playing? One participant expressed a yearning to see her husband dressed as a police...
After another hour, Colonel Rhonda Earls, the hospital commander, got on the phone to give Melissa the news. "Mrs. Cassidy, I regret to inform you that we found your husband in the barracks, and he is dead." A military chaplain and casualty-assistance officer arrived at the house at about midnight...
...Angelina master your French accent? :-) -Rhonda Phillips, ATLANTA[Laughs.] She suffered. She told me she loves me, but it was a very difficult task. She told me I didn't only have a French accent but I had a Cuban accent too. We joke about...