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Los Angeles Times Today – College Loneliness



L.A. Times Op-Ed: There’s a loneliness crisis on college campuses

A person bikes March 12 across USC’s campus.(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

  July 14 ,2019 – Los Angeles Times By Varun Soni, USC Dean of Religious Life When I arrived at USC 11 years ago as… Read more »

Secular Students Are Determined to Be “Better Together”

Attendees at the 2019 Secular Students Alliance Conference at USC

July 18, 2019 The Humanist Magazine By Emily Newman In July, the USC Office of Religious & Spiritual Life hosted the Secular Student Alliance’s annual… Read more »

L.A. Times: How millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals

Amethyst crystals for sale at House of Intuition in Highland Park.(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

July 10, 2019 Los Angeles Times by Jessica Roy Senior Associate Dean, Rev. Jim Burklo is quoted within. I love myself. I am beautiful. It… Read more »

Vanessa Gomez Brake to Receive Unitarian Universalist Humanist Person of the Year Award

The Unitarian Universalist Humanist Association is pleased to announce the 2019 recipient of the UUHA Person of the Year Award. This year the UUHA has… Read more »

At USC, Soni Meets Mental Health Crisis with Mindfulness

Harvard Divinity School By Paul Massari April 22, 2019 The United States is suffering through an epidemic of youth mental illness. For Varun Soni, MTS… Read more »

Harvard Honors Varun Soni with Prestigious Gomes Memorial Award

2019 Gomes Honors Emphasize Spiritual Innovation By Paul Massari In 1815, the Reverend William Ellery Channing laid out a vision for the graduates of the… Read more »

Varun Soni receives 2018 Exemplar Award for Community Service

Dr. Varun Soni, USC Dean of Religious Life and Vice Provost of Campus Wellness and Crisis Intervention, Named Recipient of the South Asian Studies Association’s… Read more »

With encouragement from USC religious leaders, atheist alumna heeds her spiritual calling

USC News By Joanna Clay February 9, 2018 Allison Rosen is in Boston, studying ministry and Buddhist animal ethics and also working at a homeless… Read more »

Vanessa Gomez Brake awarded Rabbi Schaalman InterReligious Leadership Award

CHICAGO – November 13, 2017 – Chicago Theological Seminary is pleased to announce Vanessa Gomez Brake as the winner of the 2018 Rabbi Herman E. Schaalman… Read more »

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