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Professor Mark Jordan

Recalling the ‘Brave Spaces’ for LGBTQ+ History Month

October 27, 2020

Believing that a month should be dedicated to the celebration and teaching of gay and lesbian history, Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, gathered other educators and community leaders to discuss the issue in 1994. The group selected October as LGBTQ+ History Month because public schools are in session and traditions, including Coming Out Day, occur that month.... Read more about Recalling the ‘Brave Spaces’ for LGBTQ+ History Month

Pope Francis at the Vatican

Pope May Support Same-Sex Unions, but That Doesn’t Mean the Vatican Does

October 23, 2020
"People who are against any compromise in this direction will see this as another sign that Francis has gone astray, that he is not adhering to church teaching. And they will add this to their list of complaints about him," says HDS Parkman Professor of Divinity Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Bob Linscott, MTS '97

How to Show Care for Older Adults during Social Distancing

April 29, 2020

Bob Linscott’s specialties feel essential, now more than ever. The assistant director of the LGBT Aging Project at the Fenway Institute in Boston, Linscott, MTS '97, has spent his career focused on the needs of older adults.

David Diaz

Expressing Love

October 11, 2019

David Diaz, MDiv candidate and fellow in the Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 9, 2019.... Read more about Expressing Love

Israel Buffardi, MDiv '19

HDS Grad Finds His Community in Ministry

June 27, 2019
“It’s rare for a divinity school to have such a diverse group of people,” says Israel Buffardi, MDiv '19, of HDS. “[It allows for] building community with all different types of people and finding connections with each other and the values in their lives.”
Professor Mark Jordan

Queer Callings: Labels, Identities, Vocations

April 2, 2019
On March 27, 2019, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity Mark D. Jordan delivered the Lowell Lecture at Boston University School of Theology. The title of Jordan's lecture was "Queer Callings: Labels, Identities, Vocations."

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