In an intriguing column in the NYT of 10/17/15, Samuel G. Freedman (“Secular, But Feeling a Call to Divinity School” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/us/more-students-secular-but-feeling-a-call-turn-to-divinity-schools.html?_r=0 ) writes about a trend whereby “nones”—individuals who are either secular or unaffiliated with any particular religion—are enrolling in graduate Divinity School programs. Towards the end of the article, one of the interviewee’s is described as follows:
“During her years at Harvard… she opened herself up to the possibility of a deity. Every time, the Holocaust or the Rwanda genocide or the Syrian civil war convinced her nothing supernatural existed.”