Atheists find a place at Yale Divinity School

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Matt Riley, a second-year student at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Conn., helps lead "The Left Behind," a club of atheists and agnostics at one of the nation's premier training grounds for clergy.

Along with co-leader Christy Groves, Riley has given nonbelievers a place of their own on a campus that explores belief. He chose divinity school, he says, to obtain an "inside view." The club fosters dialogue between non-Christians and Christians on campus and staged "Div School Idol," a takeoff on American Idol in the chapel last spring.

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Filed under: * TheologySeminary / Theological Education


Posted November 16, 2007 at 9:40 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



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1. NewTrollObserver wrote:

Archer,

Even atheists recognize that the Bible exists, the people go to churches, and that belief in higher beings is a popular exercise. One could spend an entire life-time studying religion purely as a social, cultural, and psychological phenomenon, without making that next step across the abyss of faith.

November 16, 1:28 pm | [comment link]
2. maineiac wrote:

From Riley’s answers in the interview/article, it wd appear the Holy Spirit’s after him.

November 16, 3:10 pm | [comment link]
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