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Correspondent Dan Lothian goes to Yale and Harvard Divinity Schools where a number of students are studying theology with no intention of becoming academics or ever being ordained as clergy. He talks to students and also to Miroslav Volf, prominent theologian and head of Yale\u2019s Center for Faith and Culture, who says, \u201cWe welcome atheists, we welcome theists, we welcome religious people who aren\u2019t theist. We try to have a diverse group\u2026to think about the great questions of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“In culture today we tend to spend a lot of time thinking about how to succeed in one or the other endeavor that we undertake. But we tend to spend very little time thinking about how we succeed as a human being,” says Professor Miroslav Volf, head of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. 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