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...themselves born-again Christians, which would be a natural constituency for religious-fellowship groups on campuses. Evangelical student leaders at Indiana University estimate that fewer than 5% of the 30,000 undergraduates participate in one of the campus's Christian groups. But that's an uptick since the stridently secular 1960s, says dean of students Richard McKaig. In the past five years, "attention to spirituality has been especially strong." But committed Christians seem to want more than just spiritual living. "They're looking for something deeper," he says...
Some CSF members say they wanted the academic challenge of a secular school but appreciate the house's spiritual ethos. "It's almost like going to a Christian school," says Andrew Harper, 23, a senior from Indianapolis, "but you're not totally excluding yourself from the world." Says Tyler Irwin, 20, a sophomore from Polson, Mont.: "I don't want to put myself in a compromising position, with lots of alcohol and lots of girls and not a lot of clothes." House rules ban drinking, tobacco, illegal drugs and premarital sex. Room doors must be open when students...
...whom don't want to be bothered with God right now." But influence can flow both ways. Early in his freshman year, Straub found himself waking up after a couple of drunken nights, suffering a spiritual hangover of guilt. Now he leads a weekly Bible study in his secular frat. It's a daunting challenge, but he draws strength from Paul's letter to the Ephesians, in which the Apostle urges believers to "put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil." The idea "is very manly...
...part of both institutions cannot partition their lives and their actions into non-overlapping circles without being false to their religion. The inherent roles of most religions are to prescribe, in some manner, a set of behaviors that they deem moral. Human actions, even when involved in secular, civic affairs, involve morality simply due to the fact that people are expected to make ethical decisions as a part of their lives. It is fully within the right, and even the duty, of the Catholic Church to declare not only a moral opinion, but also a set of suggested moral actions...
...practice, this has come to manifest itself in a painfully obvious tone of condescension towards religion and religious institutions. While liberals have an almost reflexive negative response to what they perceive to be unfair assaults on their morality by religious people, they often attempt to impose their own secular morality on religious people and implicitly chastise them for their “irrationality” or “narrow-mindedness...