by Edie Glaser | Oct 10, 2022 | 2022, Fall, Spiritual Life
Texas Christian University teaches yoga, and Loyola Marymount University offers certificates in yoga studies. A 2015 survey found that 940 schools across the nation were teaching yoga.[1] A 2016 survey found the number of yoga practitioners grew 50% in just...
by Edie Glaser | Jul 5, 2022 | 2022, Academics, Spiritual Life, Summer
Harvard Divinity School has a Psychedelic Chaplaincy. John Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research is recruiting faith leaders for its current research on the effects of psylocibin (“magic mushrooms”). Is Harvard Divinity School and John...
by Edie Glaser | Feb 8, 2022 | 2022, Academics, The Case, Winter
A recent Barna research report “Millennials in America: New Insights into the Generation of Growing Influence” reveals that only 4% of Millennials surveyed (those born 1984–2002) have a biblical worldview. Among 18–24 year olds, that is cut in half to...
by Edie Glaser | Jan 13, 2015 | 2015, The Pretentious Circus, Winter
Draftee’s Prayer Dear Lord, today I go to war: To fight, to die, Tell me what for? Dear Lord, I’ll fight, I do not fear, Germans or Japs; My fears are here. America! —Excerpt of the 1943 “Draftee’s Prayer,” quoted in A People’s History of the United States...
