Word: seminarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wore jeans and was smoking a cigarette. The first person he shot was Jeff Laster, a seminarian working as a custodian who asked him to put it out. Next was Sydney Browning, the children's choir director, resting on a sofa in the foyer, followed by a young man who had been selling Christian CDs. In the sanctuary, the shooter found a roomful of adolescents, happily celebrating that morning's observance of See You at the Pole, an annual national event in which Christian teens gather around their school flagpoles before classes to pray. A band called Forty Days...
According to Susan T. Cooke, coordinator of student activities, the Epps Fellowship will fund a seminarian--a religious leader in training who is not necessarily Christian--to work to encourage spirituality in the College community...
...seminarian] does not have to be affiliated with the Divinity School," she said...
...Henrik (Ezra Keshet '99). The inherent problems in such a match provide much of the tension that drives the play. Frederik lacks the energy to seduce the innocent Anne, for whom the idea of marital duty is confined to being cheerful around her husband. Henrik, a young seminarian, is equally naive and is confused by the attraction he feels for Anne. The three lament their bizarre love triangle in a musical trio, though only Beurteaux's beautiful soprano can be heard consistently...
...being one of a small cohort does not seem to bother them, since most report that their journeys here were made largely on their own. David Syverson, 29, a first-year seminarian baptized as a Lutheran in North Dakota, says of his decision, "This is really going against what society believes in. Mom and Dad were shocked, though they eventually accepted it." John Stimler, 25, an entering seminarian from Decatur, Illinois, notes that the celibacy business puzzled his friends and acquaintances: "People, especially young people, have difficulty comprehending how you can live without sex. 'Oh, boy! Strange bird here...