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...Gowda '02, president of the Harvard Secular Society, said his organization holds a "healthy skepticism of all beliefs...
...pulled together different religious and secular groups to find out where God fits at Harvard and how Harvard nurtures spirituality," Leath said...
...father and a lapsed Lutheran mother who has since turned to Zen Buddhism," approaches the subject with a respectful, blank-canvas curiosity. Some of the nuns she interviews are cloistered, emerging only briefly from a shuttered existence. Others live in apartment complexes and work in boardrooms, indistinguishable from their secular counterparts. All seem inclined toward frank discussion of their faith--from describing morning prayers as "spiritual Drano" to accepting the likely demise of their vocation as part of God's plan. A chapter on sex and celibacy depicts enough furtive sexual encounters to satisfy salacious readers. But Kaylin presses beyond...
...told the packed auditorium that she was elected to the parliament but prevented from taking her oath of office because her headscarf, associated with Muslim conservatism, was viewed as a threat to the secular culture. Her citizenship was then revoked...
...Bangladesh, fires in Italy and droughts in Burundi and Iran--they would have stood as an omen portending the death of a king or the end of an empire. Humans have long interpreted the wrath of the (literal) heavens as punishment for their earthly transgressions. If our modern, secular selves were to sit up and take notice of ten thousand years of weather interpretation, what evil deed might be to blame...