"I started to think that religion, all types of religion, is humanity’s attempt to keep the faith. So many of us need to believe that life isn’t random, and religion provides us with rituals and stories to help us keep believing that. Religion helps us keep the faith."
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The Daily Tar Heel asked 27 religious organizations on campus the same question: Does your organization support same-sex marriage?
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In the North Carolina General Assembly, only four legislators did not specifically say they came from a Christian religious tradition.
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Chapel Hill is home to more than 50 churches, a Jewish synagogue and two Buddhist temples — but no mosque.
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UNC sophomore Salem Hockett says she’s a United Methodist Christian. She was raised in the church, and her father was the preacher.
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The building towers over its sprawling parking lot, its windowless slabs of off-white concrete giving it the authoritative look of a government building.
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Saarah Khan’s food options in the dining hall are limited. She mostly eats pasta, salad and an occasional veggie burger.
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I am not religious. I’m not sure if I’m an agnostic or just an atheist in denial, but I definitely do not practice any of the religions covered in The Daily Tar Heel’s special projects and investigations team’s Religion Issue today.
Read More »As America grows evermore accepting of the LGBT community, some religious communities have opened their congregations to people of different sexual orientations, but religiously affiliated adoption agencies have been slow to change.
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Though Ari Gauss, executive director of Jewish campus life foundation N.C. Hillel, has made a home in Chapel Hill since moving to the South in 2009, his work, education and Jewish heritage have taken him from the West Coast to the East and far beyond.
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Chapel Hill is going to be a town with a village.
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