How hard is it for secular students to unite at Concordia?

Bjoern Kvernstuen, founder of the Secular Students of Concordia (SSC) student group, tells The Concordian why the group has applied a second time for recognition as an official Concordia College (Moorhead) student organization — a year after the college rejected its original application:

“All we really want is a chance to get together, and for us to wrestle with the question of God, too. This is just as much a question of God as it is for any Christian. We want that experience to count for us as well as religious people.”

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Alex Friedrich

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.