Religion, Science, and Sustainability

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Reflecting on ‘The Climate of Sacred Land Protection’

September 30, 2021

In our second discussion as part of the 10-week fall series, “Weather Reports: The Climate of Now,” held September 27, environmentalist, author, and HDS Writer-in-Residence Terry Tempest Williams spoke with Bernadette Demienteff, an Indigenous activist for the protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee.... Read more about Reflecting on ‘The Climate of Sacred Land Protection’

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Reflecting on ‘A Burning Testament to Climate Collapse’

September 23, 2021

This fall at Harvard Divinity School, environmentalist, author, and HDS Writer-in-Residence Terry Tempest Williams is leading a series of online conversations concerning our response to climate chaos, asking the questions: How might we recast this a time of meaning rather than despair? How do arts and activism combine to let us see possibility instead of pessimism? And where do we find the strength to fully face all that is breaking our hearts?... Read more about Reflecting on ‘A Burning Testament to Climate Collapse’

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Facebook Has a New Prayer Feature. But Is It Made for Jews?

August 23, 2021

"This is abstracting the relationships that are built through prayer. It’s abstracting just the petitionary from all these other kinds of Christian prayers, which just makes it a less rich experience as part of a community and a less rich prayer life," said Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church.

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Terry Tempest Williams: We Have to Bridge Our Divides

April 13, 2021
"Healing this uncivil war, especially within our own families, is not about changing our minds or even our hearts but first creating a space where we can meet unarmed. Here, an opening can occur. We are not abandoning our principles, but expanding our points of view," says HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams.
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The Power of Touch

December 4, 2020
HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams considers how we go deeper with our feeling of what does it mean to touch and be touched?

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