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Ministry of Healing
White-Hammond provides care to the sick—and addresses the injustice that makes them ill Gloria White-Hammond, MDiv ’97, is committed to healing and ministry—often in the most difficult situations. In the 2000s, she entered war zones in the African nation...
Gloria White-Hammond

Modeling Multireligious Community
Lesedi Graveline, MTS ’21 Lesedi Graveline is an activist on the path to a career in social justice and human rights work. A graduate of the University of Connecticut, she is passionate about expanding her leadership through mentoring and empowering young...
Lesedi Graveline, MTS '21

There Is No 'Other' Here
Kevin Cranston and the truth of pandemics Kevin Cranston, MDiv ’86, learned early on that viruses tell the truth. As a gay man coming of age during the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, he saw the ways that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) crossed...
Kevin Cranston, MDiv '86, is assistant commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health

On the Path of Love and Justice
Melissa Bartholomew fosters diversity, inclusion, and belonging at HDS Melissa Wood Bartholomew, MDiv ’15, has been here before—the horrifying event, the protests, the renewed pledges, soon forgotten, to combat racism. While she has concerns about whether...
Melissa Wood Bartholomew

Public Policy, Prophetic Vision
Brooks teaches students to bring sacred and secular together in service of social justice When Cornell William Brooks saw the video of George Floyd, the African American man killed last May by a Minneapolis police officer, it immediately brought to mind...
Cornell William Brooks

The Canopy
Under the auspices of RPL, programs come together to promote a just world at peace Yaseen Hashmi, MTS ’21, didn’t expect an epiphany when he joined students from HDS and six of Harvard’s other graduate schools for a January-term course in Israel and...
Petitioners are sworn in as new citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives in 2014.

A Student of Miracles
Sevea studies the role of spirit mediums in the South and Southeast Asian Islamic world Teren Sevea grew up in a “universe of miracle workers.” They were in shrines, in cemeteries, in homes, and coffee shops, and, of course, on the streets of Southeast...
Teren Sevea

Video: The Religion of White Rage
This panel discussion of "The Religion of White Rage" was held November 2 with the book’s three editors, as part of the Center for the Study of World Religion's series on “Race, Religion, and Nationalism.” This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white...
Religion of White Rage event

An Electorate That Wanted to Be Heard
"At this moment, the country stands divided by class fissures and racial fault lines in the middle of a pandemic, and nevertheless nearly 100 million people cast ballots in the midst of 9 million coronavirus cases and 230,000 coronavirus fatalities. This...
Cornell William Brooks

Why This Columbus Church's Name Invokes the End of the World
"The book (of Revelation) is full of references to plagues and natural catastrophes, earthquakes, floods. It's very easy to connect things one finds in the Bible with things that are happening today," said Professor Giovanni Bazzana.
Bishop Derrick Reeves outside End Times Apostolic Church in Columbus, Ohio.