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Humans of HDS: Gratitude for Education

October 09, 2019

"Every day after class I went into the bathroom and cried just because there was so much emotion. It was amazing. It encapsulates a lot of my experience at HDS, where I think I know what it is, but then I realize that I do not understand things like...

Video: Fall 2019 Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture: Diana Magaloni

October 09, 2019

The fall 2019 Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture was delivered by Diana Magaloni, deputy director, director of conservation, and program director and Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, at...

Prof. Todne Thomas: White Evangelical Support of Trump Makes Perfect Sense

October 08, 2019

HDS Professor Todne Thomas writes that the moral exceptionalism that was extended to Trump by evangelicals around the issue of family values was not just an act of grace; it was an example of a moral program working as it has in the past through religious...

Contact Zones

October 07, 2019

Alicia Izharuddin, Visiting Senior Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islam and 2019-20 Women's Studies in Religion Program Research Associate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 4, 2019. ♦♦♦

Film Series Examines ‘the Politics of the Unseen’

October 03, 2019

Curated by Terry Tempest Williams and Geralyn White Dreyfous, “The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination” is a special film series and salon open to all members of the Harvard community as well as the general public. The films, which...

Cornel West on Nostalgia

October 03, 2019

"There are ways of being nostalgic that are childish, and there are ways that are childlike. The enabling form reinforces your sense of wonder and gets you outside of your ego and narcissism. The disabling form is a matter of wanting to control something...

The Radical Nature of Hospitality

October 02, 2019

Grace Killian, MDiv candidate and a seminarian at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on September 27, 2019.

HDS Students Find an Education Beyond the Classroom

September 26, 2019

In July, Puerto Rican protestors took to the streets, and so did Allison Rosen. The third-year master of divinity (MDiv) candidate planned to spend her summer doing field education in Puerto Rico working with El Departamento de la Comida (The Food...

On Sharing Struggles

September 26, 2019

Sally Hammel, MDiv candidate and a seminarian at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on September 26, 2019.

Video: Death in Transit—Cremation, Spectacle, and Looking Off-Center

September 26, 2019

Jyoti Puri, Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies and South Asian Religions Colorado Scholar from Simmons University, presented on “Death in Transit: Cremation, Spectacle, and Looking Off-Center." Listen

Video: Ardencies: St. Hildegard's Blazing Plants

September 26, 2019

Michael Marder discusses the paradox of “excessive heat” that, on the one hand, signals the ardency of faith and the love of God and, on the other, the effect of sin configured as ariditas (dryness), undoing viriditas (the greening green, a self...

On Racism, Fear, and Making a Better World

September 25, 2019

KMarie Tejeda, MDiv candidate and a seminarian at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on September 25, 2019.