religion
Religion shouldn’t separate
On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, some of my suitemates and I headed to the Gargoyle for what we thought was an interfaith dinner. Turns out it was a dinner for Intervarsity, an on-campus Christian fellowship…oops.
Campus faith groups host religious awareness week
Religious groups on campus will be hosting events this coming week to raise awareness about different religions and bring the Washington University community together under the umbrella of pluralism.
Rationality and the bubble
In Creve Coeur, Mo.—the suburb of St. Louis where I grew up—it is not uncommon to hear people admonish the legal provision of funding for stem cell research, nor is it out of the ordinary when a Catholic bishop sends you mail to tell you how to vote.
Secular humanist student group returns to campus after hiatus
A group of Washington University students has revived a secular humanist club on campus. The Washington University League of Freethinkers (WULF), brought back last semester by now-seniors Eddy Lazzarin, Mark Povich and Laura Kelly, is gathering members and working toward official recognition as a Student Union group.
Religion on campus
Campus ministry can be a place to go with your broken and blessed lives, to believe in something bigger than a me-centered life—some horizon against which every day can be lived out, a place where your own personal story and the Great Story can connect and lead to transformation
Q. and A. with Professor David Peters
Student Life’s Michelle Merlin sat down with the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering David Peters from the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Structural Engineering. Peters recently published a book not on engineering, but on the Bible.
Student Life: Your book, “The Many Faces of Biblical Humor,” focuses on humor in the Bible. How did you get [...]
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