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Ways You Might Consider Beginning to Fast

Here are just a few ideas of ways you might consider fasting. Our hope is that you'd seek God and His guidance through the process and follow His leading:

Fasting for one meal per day
Fasting for a full day
Fasting the same day each week for a set period
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This talk is from Harvard’s leadership lecture series. The speaker is Nick Nowalk. (40:33)

This is the story of one of the students involved in ministries that Christian Union serves and resources. (Video length: 5:06)

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This talk is from Harvard’s leadership lecture series. The speaker is Nick Nowalk and he explores Genesis 1:1-11. (52:47)

A Path Marriage Proponents Should Take

By Ryan T. Anderson, Princeton ’04

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In a 5–4 majority opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy (Harvard Law '61), the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Windsor struck down section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage in federal law for federal policy as the union of one man and one woman. The Court held that the federal government has to accept state redefinitions of marriage for federal policies.

The majority concluded its opinion by stating: "This opinion and its holding are confined to those lawful marriages." So while the federal government has been ordered to recognize all state-recognized marriages, the Court declared that "the definition and regulation of marriage has been treated as being within the authority and realm of the separate States." The states remain free—and should continue—to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

The Court got the case wrong. While there is little of value in the majority opinion, the three dissenting opinions signal the path that marriage proponents should take from here.

Analyzing the Analysis: Is the Narrative Changing?

By Jordan Monge, Harvard '12
The following story was reprinted with permission from Christianity Today.

My story is almost always met with surprise: How could an atheist convert to Christianity at Harvard, the bastion of secular intellectual elitism?

Now this reaction has some empirical justification. A recent meta-analysis of studies on religion and intelligence found that yes, overall, people with high IQs and test scores are less likely to be religious.

Leadership Development Ministry Co-Hosts Event with Harvard Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics

Students of various faith backgrounds (and no faith backgrounds) gathered in Harvard's Science Center's Auditorium B on the first Sunday after the start of classes for a debate on the topic, "Can the Christian God Be Good in Light of the Suffering in the World?"

For the second consecutive year, Harvard College Faith and Action (HCFA) and Harvard Community Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics (HCHAA) co-hosted a debate. HCFA is a leadership development ministry supported and resourced by Christian Union.