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Legacies and Complex Histories: A Memphis Narrative
Kayla J. Smith, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks during Noon Service in Andover Chapel on April 3, 2019. ♦♦♦ April 4, 2019, marked the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in my hometown, Memphis, Tennessee...
Putting ‘the Language of the Earth on the Agenda’
Climate change may finally be making headlines, but it is far from news. Addressing an overflow crowd at “The Land and the Waters Are Speaking: Indigenous Views on Climate Change” at Andover Hall on April 4, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, an Eskimo Kalaallit...
Offering a Seat
Carlyle Stewart, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 5, 2019.
Video: The Land and the Waters are Speaking: Indigenous Views on Climate Change
The ongoing destruction of Earth’s natural systems is the result of decisions, made daily, by billions of people. These decisions are voluntary and involuntary at once, collective and personal. Two indigenous leaders—Nainoa Thompson and Angaangaq...
'Jump into the River of Life'
Sally Hammel, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks during the Tuesday morning Ecumenical Eucharist in Andover Chapel on April 2, 2019. ♦♦♦ The Lord brought me back to the entrance of the temple; there, water was flowing from below the threshold...
Video: The Kingdom of Holy Women: Pentecostalism, Sex and Women’s Bodies in an African Church
Damaris S. Parsitau, 2018-19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture “The Kingdom of Holy Women: Pentecostalism, Sex and Women’s Bodies in an African Church,” which is based on five years of ethnographic research carried out at the...
Video: All One Stuff: Emerson's Materialism
This talk contradicts the longstanding reading of Emerson as invested in idealism and instead charts his obsession with matter both organic and inorganic, organized and unorganized. By attending to his interest in sciences of life, Branka Arsić...
Queer Callings: Labels, Identities, Vocations
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."
Practicing Praise and Gratitude
Kent French, MDiv '07 and Senior Pastor at The United Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 2, 2019. ♦♦♦
WSRP Announces 2019–20 Research Associates
Five new Research Associates will join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects during the 2019–20 academic year. By bringing together scholars from different disciplines and research areas, commonalities in religion...
Students Celebrate Holi at HDS
Bright clouds of orange, yellow, purple, and blue floated through the HDS Campus Green on the afternoon of March 27 as students tossed colored powder at one another as part of an observance of Holi, the spring Hindu festival. The celebration marks the...
