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Christian colleges get into the swing
(RNS) Classes are done for the day. Meetings and work are winding down, and Facebook can provide a study break for only so long. So what's a restless Christian college student to do?
For undergrads at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., a walk down to the campus theater provides one s...
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10 Minutes with ... Karen Armstrong
(RNS) Acclaimed British writer Karen Armstrong has been described as one of the most provocative and original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world.
Her first book, "Through the Narrow Gate," chronicled her seven years as a nun in a Roman Catholic religious order, which...
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`Milk’ filmmaker turns down invitation from Christian college
HOLLAND, Mich. (RNS) The Oscar-winning writer behind "Milk" turned down an invitation to talk shop with students at a Christian college here, after administrators had earlier barred him from talking about gay rights.
Dustin Lance Black, who won an Academy Award for his original screen...
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Smithsonian to open evolution hall, launch dialogue with faith
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural history will open a new permanent exhibit on to the "discovery and understanding of human origins" next March and convene a panel of experts to bridge the gap between religion and science.
With input from more than 50 scie...
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COMMENTARY: Bruised by booze
NEW YORK (RNS) At 10:30 p.m., after a drive upstate to look at colleges, I returned a borrowed car to Greenwich Village, threaded my way through reeling and raucous revelers, and boarded the subway for home.
A couple got on around 14th Street. She had dressed nicely for an evening out...
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Atheists groups double in size in two years
(RNS) The number of atheist or agnostic student groups on U.S. campuses has more than doubled in the past two years -- from 80 to 162 -- according to the Secular Student Alliance (SSA), the national organization for the secular student movement.
PZ Myers, an outspoken atheist and asso...
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COMMENTARY: Learning from me, learning from them
(UNDATED) Back-to-school jitters aren't only for the students. Every teacher gearing up for another term also wonders what the first day of classes will bring.
Certainly, it will bring a lot of students. This year, U.S. colleges and universities will enroll about 17.5 million students...
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Does Lit 101 lead to unbelief?
(UNDATED) As college students return to campus in the coming weeks, a new study suggests that some could be in danger of losing their religion.
Economics professor Miles Kimball and researchers from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research determined that certain acade...
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Atheists put their faith in Twitter
(UNDATED) P.Z. Myers' Twitter bio reads, "godless liberal biologist."
The avid atheist is far from alone in the cyber world. He has more than 7,700 followers who subscribe to his atheism- and evolution-themed Internet updates.
When Myers led about 300 like-minded evolutionists to the...
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Did God have a girlfriend?
Robert Wright, he of the provocative new book "The Evolution of God," poses the question in this excerpt. (He says "wife." I think he's pushing too fast, too soon.)
Anyhoo, Wright says Israel's "Yahweh" merged with the Canaanites "El" somewhere along the evolutionary line. El had hims...
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