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This collection includes essays from twenty-one writers in their twenties reflecting on their struggles to reconcile their religious beliefs with their college experiences. Organized into five sections, the essays address questions of tradition and identity, sex and sexuality, vocation and call, negotiating relationships, and life beyond college.
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College is a time to learn, explore, and grow, but what does faith have to do with it? In this collection of essays, gifted writers in their twenties and early thirties reflect on their college years by telling stories—some hilarious, some heart-wrenching—on the intersection of faith and college. At a time when so much is written about young adults but notby young adults, this collection allows writers to reveal their college experience in their own voice, sharing, through reflection on their own joys and sorrows, unique insight into students’ experience of college. Themes include negotiating identity, sex and sexuality, discerning the future, studying abroad, and transitions in faith.This collection includes stories from large public universities and small, faith-related colleges. Perfect for faith leaders, college administrators, study groups, young adults, and anyone who loves a college student,Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat Housereveals college struggles that help us reflect on faith and life in college, and forever.
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