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What Does St. Paul’s Chapel Mean? The Place of Religious Life on a Secular Campus

To many, religion feels out of place or inappropriate on the campus of a modern university. Religions are assumed to be bound up with faith rather than reason, prejudice rather than acceptance. Moreover, with students so focused on academic achievement and career placement, religious matters appear irrelevant, if not distracting from whatever task is at hand. But does the exhaustion of campus life not demand spiritual rest and reflection? Join Columbia's Dean of Religious Life, Rev. Dr. Ian Rottenberg, for a lunch discussion about the necessary role religious life plays in the context of the secular university.