STUDENT SPIRITUALITY
(Thursday) Diane Geng has written a fine article in the University of California Davis student newspaper, the California Aggie, about how students view spirituality. Specifically she focuses on the work of Daniel Perez, a senior student who did a research thesis on non-religious spirituality.

I don't agree with much of what the students interviewed said but the article presents a fairly accurate picture of the landscape in this area. The emphasis was on students finding spirituality outside organized religion. However, while they appear to be in the minority there are still significant numbers of students who are fully committed to pursuing faith within the contexts of traditional religious structures. It would have been even more interesting to explore how these two paths intersect and how the students pursuing each interface with each other. That, however, is for someone else's thesis.