college students
When it comes to defusing Hindu-Muslim tensions, college kids may know best
By Richa Karmarkar — November 9, 2023
(RNS) — The Interfaith Harmony Student Fellowship, an inaugural initiative from progressive Hindu organization Hindus for Human Rights, aims to prove that the younger generation will lead the cause into lasting change.
The Hanukkah dreidel and America’s gambling problem
By Joshua Hammerman — December 15, 2022
(RNS) — Religious institutions were not prepared for the gambling explosion. We need to catch up.
Campus ministries, counselors join to tackle mental health
By Giovanna Dell’Orto and Kathryn Post — June 1, 2022
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP/RNS) — On Ivy League campuses, large public institutions and faith-based colleges, chaplains and psychologists are teaming up.
What Harvard’s humanist chaplain shows about atheism in America
By Wendy Cadge and Penny Edgell — September 27, 2021
(The Conversation) — Americans are getting more comfortable with new forms of spirituality, but their views of atheists are still complicated.
Study: College students of all faiths are a prime audience for Democratic candidates
By Matthew J. Mayhew, Kevin Singer, Alyssa Rockenbach, and Laura Dahl — February 7, 2020
(RNS) — The ground is tilled for progressive faith activists to make an impact on college campuses going into 2020. Will they bother to plant the seeds?
BYU-Idaho reverses decision on Medicaid coverage amid backlash
By Jack Jenkins — November 26, 2019
(RNS) — The school's statement included an apology for 'the turmoil caused by our earlier decision.'
Boston College students and faculty push to reject Koch funding — and Koch values
By Aysha Khan — November 19, 2019
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (RNS) — As Boston College finalizes a potential Koch Foundation donation to its political science department, many at the Jesuit institution are hoping to pressure administrators into reconsidering the grant.
Catholics are evangelizing on campus, trying to bring back the ‘nones’
By Katherine Dugan — April 8, 2019
(The Conversation) — Some 36 percent of those without religious affiliation report having grown up Catholic.
Notre Dame students cite faith as they kneel during national anthem to protest racism
By Jack Jenkins — November 12, 2018
(RNS) — The students argued their demonstration was in the spirit of Notre Dame's former president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, who protested with Martin Luther King Jr.
Note to Netanyahu: Don’t make American Jewish life harder (COMMENTARY)
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 25, 2014
(RNS) As much as I worry about the effect of the nationality bill on the Jewish state, I worry more about the effect that this will have on the Jewish street.
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