Posts Tagged ‘college’
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Catholic college engages atheism head-on
Talk about an unlikely course in an unlikely place. The main chapel at Jesuit-run Regis College at the University of Toronto is adorned with stained glass windows, icons of Mary and Joseph, and the Stations of the Cross. The ei...
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Amid infidelity scandal, Dinesh D’Souza resigns from King’s College
Conservative activist Dinesh D’Souza resigned as president of evangelical The King’s College in New York City on Thursday (Oct. 18) amid a scandal involving a relationship with a woman who is not his wife.
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Change, continuity among white voters without college degrees
The history of white voters with no college degree between 1980 and 2008 provides an interesting story of how demographics and educational attainment have changed American politics and the party coalitions over the past three d...
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Sudanese refugee graduates college, helps another student, returns home
Dut Aguer Bior was separated from his family as a child in Sudan. When he was six years old, he traveled 1,000 miles to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, where he would spend the rest of his adolescence.
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After C.S. Lewis College flops, a free campus for the taking
Jerry Pattengale’s cell phone won’t stop ringing as he leads a secretive group of four wide-eyed college administrators around a majestic campus built in 1879 by legendary evangelist D.L. Moody. Calls and visitors a...
Arts & Culture
Lin points people with ‘Linsanity’ to Christ
People all over the globe are coming down with a new illness: Linsanity. Symptoms of Linsanity include buying Knicks season tickets just to see Jeremy Lin even though you hate basketball, buying no. 17 Knicks jerseys for all yo...
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Will evangelical endorsement fuel Santorum surge?
The Iowa caucuses revived Rick Santorum’s underdog presidential campaign. Now an influential assortment of Christian conservatives has moved to consecrate it. On Saturday, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania sewed u...
Commentary
Why Penn State is (and isn’t) like the Catholic Church
Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno is out in the university’s burgeoning sex abuse scandal, and comparisons to the Roman Catholic Church’s own abuse scandals are in. “The parallels are too striking to igno...
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Catholic college sues over contraception mandate
A small Catholic college has sued the Department of Health and Human Services, saying a new requirement to provide contraceptives contradicts the school’s religious beliefs. Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, N.C., said Thursday...
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At religious campuses, atheist groups operate underground
Late one night over pizza, University of Dayton students Branden King and Nick Haynes discovered neither of them believed in God.Surely, they thought, they couldn’t be the only unbelievers at the Roman Catholic college. Last ye...