Faculty and Research

HDS Professor Cornel West

Communities of Faith and Covid-19

April 2, 2020
In a panel for Baylor University, HDS Professor Cornel West and alum Robert George, MTS '81, speak on faith communities coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, and what can religious leaders do for the communities during this time.
Audrey Choi

A Force for Good: A Student Reflection on HDS 3092: Ethical Discernment in Business Contexts

March 31, 2020

The following personal reflection was written by Chloe Merrell, student at the University of Cambridge. Chloe was awarded the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship, allowing her to study at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2019-20 as a non-degree special student.... Read more about A Force for Good: A Student Reflection on HDS 3092: Ethical Discernment in Business Contexts

Yasir Fahmy

How Are Religious Communities Adapting to the Coronavirus?

March 30, 2020
With bans on large gatherings and people self-isolating at home, Shaykh Yasir Fahmy, Instructor on Muslim Studies, reflects on how the coronavirus is affecting religious and faith communities in Greater Boston and New England.
Jesus Statue

'Jesus Wept': God with Us during the Pandemic

March 30, 2020
"In the days of the pandemic, even if we remain very careful about distancing ourselves, let us at least in our hearts show up, cease to be distant, dwell among those who suffer, our tears mingling with theirs, at every tomb," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Yasir Fahmy

How Religious Leaders Are Keeping Faith during Coronavirus

March 24, 2020
"In Islam, doing things in a congregational fashion is far more praiseworthy than doing it individually. The quality of being in close company in spaces of togetherness is sacred. It’s the notion of Suhba in our tradition, and it’s deeply impactful. So this situation certainly shocks the system," said Yasir Fahmy, Instructor on Muslim Studies at HDS.
Khalil Abdur-Rashid

To Harvard College Students, In Times of Change

March 23, 2020
"Choose courage in the face of fear and uncertainty. Remember that there are also positive contagions out there. Courage is contagious. Courage involves mustering the internal strength and conviction to face the horizons of an uncertain future, knowing that whatever the case, the future will be brighter than the past," writes Khalil Abdur-Rashid, Instructor on Muslim Studies at HDS and Muslim Chaplain at Harvard University.
Vatican

Sight and Blindness during a Pandemic

March 23, 2020
"The pandemic will become a matter of history, but the starker choice before us won’t go away: shall we be blind to our neighbors in need, bothered when their humanity and rich complexity become too evident, wed more to our ordinary ways of doing things than to God’s glory at work in the world?" writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Stephanie Pausell

I Do Choose

March 22, 2020

Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies and Interim Pusey Minister at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks for Sunday Services at Memorial Church on March 22, 2020.... Read more about I Do Choose

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