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Thanks to Heather for letting me know that Bono is part of the Ruth Graham slideshow on BillyGraham.org.

 

Frenchman Marc Gicquel is dragged away by a doctor after he received a serve, travelling at 208 kilometres per hour, in the testicles during the fourth day of the Halle ATP tennis tournament, 14 June 2007 at the Gerry-Weber-Stadion in Halle, western Germany. Gicquel continued his second-round tie against German Benjamin Becker after treatment. AFP PHOTO DDP/PATRIK STOLLARZ GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

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I have to raise and eyebrow regarding the other two pictures on this post.

The conflict between a college education and the faith that students bring to campus (secular campuses at least) is well accepted. The more you pursue a higher education, the more likely you are to abandon your faith — at least that’s what conventional wisdom holds.

“Actually we’ve just been wrong about this for quite a while,” said Mark D. Regnerus, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the authors of a new study that suggests students who attend and graduate from college are more likely than others to hold on to their faith.

It’s not that colleges necessarily encourage faith, he said, but for all the talk about how intellectuals are out to destroy students’ relationships to their religions and God, the main obstacles to such relationships have to do with maturing and how young people spend their time. “Some kids were bound to lose [their faith] anyway and they do,” Regnerus said. But the evidence suggests that college isn’t responsible.

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One of my Honk Kong readers had this posted on his blog.

I also found this part of his post interesting:

When The Passion opened in theaters (in Malaysia), the government only allowed it to be viewed by Christians. Tickets could only be purchased through churches.