While Texas A&M students were taking their last five weeks of classes for the spring semester, I was sitting on campus in Academic Plaza for about six hours every school day with a sign taped to a chair that said, “Discuss Religion.” On the first day I went out there, I brought a book with me just in case no one showed up to talk. That was the last day I brought a book with me. Within five minutes on that first day, people started showing up.

People of all different religious perspectives came to the discussions for the next five weeks: atheists, agnostics, pantheists, panentheists, existentialists, Muslims, deists, and all sorts of Christians. I had come up with the idea to do this because I thought that people in our culture really wanted a place they could go to talk about religion publicly, a sort of open forum, and that they didn’t have such a place available.

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