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10 Minutes with ... Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
(RNS) A famous atheist who harbors a secret soul. A 6-year-old Hasidic mathematical genius. A pompous and increasingly loony college professor with delusions of divine grandeur.
These are the characters that populate Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's recent novel, "36 Arguments for the Ex...
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Survey: College grads take dim view of Ten Commandments
(RNS) College graduates are more likely to consider the Ten Commandments irrelevant, and reject the Bible as the word of God, than those with no college degree, according to a recent study.
A "distinct shift" occurs after college regarding beliefs and opinion, said Richard Brake, dire...
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Are atheists and liberals smarter?
(RNS) Are people with high IQs more likely to be liberal, atheist and monogamous?
They are, according to a recently published paper by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
In a controversial article in the March issu...
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Study: Catholic students more prone to `hook up’ at college
(RNS) Women at Catholic colleges engage more frequently in sexual "hook ups" than women at secular colleges, a new study shows, and researchers suspect alcohol may be the reason.
The study defines a "hook up" as "a physical encounter between two people who are largely unfamiliar with...
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Thursday’s roundup
The Haitian judge presiding over the fate of the 10 American missionaries charged with kidnapping said they should be released, perhaps as early as today.
Investigators say two church fires in rural east Texas were arson, bringing the total of church burnings, which officials deduce t...
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Online archive opens the Reformers’ works
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) Some surprises started unfolding when a team of Calvin Theological Seminary professors and graduate students recently launched the Post-Reformation Digital Library.
Chief eye-openers included successfully tracking down rare Reformed theologians' manuscripts o...
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Evangelicals stake Lewis’ claim on liberal Mass. turf
(RNS) At the point where Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts come together, and about a mile from a forest called Satans Kingdom, Northfield, Mass., isn't exactly what you'd call a hotbed of either conservatives or evangelicals.
Yet when a new evangelical college opens there in 2...
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