When I told the people at my Orthodox Jewish high school that I was going to University of Iowa for college people were typically…puzzled. Why would anyone move to Iowa? Where would I go to shul? Where would I meet my beshert? To my shock, and the shock of pretty much everyone I knew in Chicago, going to school in Iowa made me more religious (and I’ve become less observant since moving to New York). Go figure.
Anyway, my own strange story makes it easy for me to believe and understand this story about the traditionally Lutheran Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania:
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