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Podcast: How Joe Biden’s Faith Will Shape His Presidency

January 19, 2021

In an October 2020 op-ed for the Christian Post, Joe Biden wrote: “My Catholic faith drilled into me a core truth—that every person on earth is equal in rights and dignity, because we are all beloved children of God.” As president, he continued, “These...

Dr. Martin Luther King and the Quiet Realities of Real Vocations

January 15, 2021

"My impression is that Dr. King did not hear a voice in the night calling to him, had no visions of Jesus calling him, and, born and raised in a spiritually committed family, was not a great sinner who underwent a radical conversion experience. It may be...

White Christian Nationalists Want More Than Just Political Power

January 15, 2021

"For white Christian nationalists, taking back the country is about more than just political power. They see themselves as faithful patriots fulfilling the American Founders’ covenant with God to maintain a righteous Christian nation," writes Lauren R...

America's Divide Seen in a Clash of Symbols

January 15, 2021

"Biden is intent on taking his oath on the steps of the Capitol because he understands its symbolic power. He is determined to reclaim the Capitol from those who claimed, in the midst of erecting nooses and wreaking violence against the police, to be...

At Twelfth Baptist Church, King Celebration Resounds with the Political Moment

January 12, 2021

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice, and yet last night I found myself in 2021—56 years later—still asking the question King asked,” the Rev. Willie Bodrick II, MDiv '14, said in a recent sermon. “How long?”

Video: Black And Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom

January 08, 2021

Buddhism is a way of life, a philosophy, a psychology, a set of ethics, a religion, or a combination thereof. Central to the many ways Buddhism is understood is the achievement of emotional, mental, and psychological wellness. African Americans are at...

The Muslim Mary and the Muslim Jesus

January 04, 2021

In an interview with Imam Malik Mujahid, Professor Frank Clooney discusses learning interreligiously, comparative theology, and the Qur'an, Mary, and Jesus.

How to Make Your Pandemic Holiday Feel like a Holiday

December 18, 2020

Ministry Innovation Fellow Casper ter Kuile discusses filling reimagined celebrations with the importance, joy, and light mayhem that we yearn for in this season.

Black Buddhists Explore Healing and Liberation in New Anthology

December 16, 2020

HDS Senior Lecturer Cheryl Giles discusses her new co-edited anthology, Black & Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation & Freedom, in which eight teachers share their journeys.

Searching for the Beginning

December 15, 2020

"And yet, the situation we’re in will not last forever. Slowly, by fits and starts, things will begin changing. We have a future together," says Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, and Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of...

The Power of Touch

December 04, 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?

What Really Matters

November 30, 2020

"Our lives are so fragile. They always have been. We are always living on the brink, on the edge, at the threshold. Every single day carries the possibility of our last judgment. Every breath is a prelude to the apocalypse. As the philosopher and mystic...