Kim, a recent graduate of the Princeton Theological Seminary, converted to Catholicism last year and has been serving as an altar server at the Princeton University chapel. He called the chapel's side altar "an island of Christian life in an unbelieving world.”
Princeton University has always had a vibrant religious community and a religiously diverse one, said Eric Gregory, a professor of religion there.
“In a way it’s either so secular or even post-secular that it’s not threatened by the Christian presence on campus,” he said. "Religious students in our campus are not cloistered from campus. They’re also in sports teams, clubs and the newspaper. They’re integrated.”