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...frosh weekend, Richard T. Halvorson ’03, a philosophy and government concentrator in Pforzheimer House, dragged the people he’d met that day to meetings of the Harvard Secular Society. Raised a Catholic, Halvorson was fascinated by Buddhism and secular humanism in high school, yet Christianity beckoned. Halvorson, drawn to what he saw as the historical validity of the New Testament and the answers it offered to his philosophical questions, made a decision to become a Christian the summer before he arrived at school...
Still, in his first year, Halvorson became active in the Harvard Secular Society. In high school, he’d engaged in e-mail dialogues with the authors of books on secular humanism and atheism, asking them for the most convincing arguments against God. He had asked professors, teachers, friends. “I wanted the strongest arguments against the things that I was starting to believe,” he says...
Simultaneously, the priesthood has become the most countercultural profession in America. "We live the last of the medieval lifestyles," author and priest Donald Cozzens said. Isolation is a constant threat. Fewer nuns and fellow priests means less peer support in an increasingly secular and sexualized society. "When I got ordained," says the Rev. Tom Pelton, 61, who became a priest in 1966 and is a mentor for Shanahan, "it was much easier to hide in the priesthood. You live in a fishbowl...
...violence and riots occur in the same India that boasts of an ancient civilization, a secular society and unity in diversity? Is this the country of the great Mohandas Gandhi, who stood alone in front of pre-partition mobs and made them slither away whimpering? It is really surprising that not a single politician went into these troubled areas to dissuade the fanatics. Compare this with the situation in America following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, in which thousands of innocents were killed. We remember with gratitude the tremendous restraint shown by most Americans toward Muslims residing...
...Netanyahu as an American with an obsession about money and little knowledge of Israel. "The Jewish people will not move from this land," Jatspan says, mimicking Bibi. "New York is ours..." In days past, that sort of barb might have spurred Netanyahu to vitriolic attacks on the media, leftists, secular Jews. But he seems to have mellowed. At a television studio in Herzliya recently, Jatspan bumped into Netanyahu. "You do me very well," the politician said...