It will be another week before students at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter return to classes on their tornado-damaged campus. Officials had hoped to reopen the college today, but delays in debris cleanup and restoring power pushed that back a week. The small Lutheran college faces a long and expensive rebuilding process. But the money's pouring in and administrators are confident they'll emerge from the debris even better than before. Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire reports.
Many people report they are finding sprituality in a variety of places.
For Dr. Stephen Parker, faith has allowed for a new level of understanding. I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. So begins the new novel by acclaimed Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk called The New Life. Critics in the same sentence compare Pamuk's writing to that of Nabakov, Borges, Proust and Garcia-Marquez. The New Life is about a Turkish engineering student whose existence is magically transformed and uprooted by love, political conspiracy, travel and danger simply by the act of reading a book.