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...addicted to Jesus classes—it’s only my third semester at Harvard and I am unintentionally on a straight-line path toward a degree in the Study of Religion. Last year, I took a course at the Divinity School, as well as a freshman seminar on Christian literature. This fall, I entered shopping period with but one space to fill. My social studies-mandated schedule of Ec 10, Social Studies 10 and Historical Studies A-73 begged for a “fun” class. After toying with the idea of taking an art elective...
Last spring, my seminar professor began the course by innocently asking us to share a bit about our religious backgrounds and ourselves, as well as to explain why we chose the class. As we went around the table, the answers came in varying shades of religious faith. Even those who weren’t Christian—the son of a rabbi, for instance—had been born into some semblance of religion and had either pursued faith on their own or at the urgings of their family. When it came time for me to give my spiel...
...lack of religion seemed to be more a blessing than a curse. So much of what I witnessed in my so-called pious peers struck me as, if not unabashedly sinful, surely hypocritical. In response to the first-hand accounts of religious conversions that we read during my seminar I had the overwhelming urge to roll my eyes. To this day, when people start to talk to me about their “faith” or their “relationship with God,” I still have a hard time staying focused on what they are saying...
McCullough will be participating in the Theodore H. White Seminar in the KSG’s Malkin Penthouse at 9 a.m. today...
...seminar on science and the humanities was led by Provost Steven E. Hyman, along with Jon Beckwith...