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Lessons from Northern Ireland

February 20, 2019

The Rev. Dr. Gary Mason and Dean David N. Hempton will speak on “ The Role of Reconciliation, Memory, and Theology in Shaping the Public Stage ” on Wednesday, February 27, at 2 pm, on the HDS campus. RSVP kindly requested . When we think of the bitter...

Sharing Father's Love Letter

February 20, 2019

KMarie Tejeda, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 19, 2019. ♦♦♦ Good Morning! Today, I want to share with you a letter written by the author Barry Adams. The message is titled Father...

Video: Bioethics on the Margins: Vulnerable Populations and Health Outcomes

February 20, 2019

Wylin D. Wilson, 2018-19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture "'Bioethics on the Margins: Vulnerable Populations and Health Outcomes."

Video: The Subversive Politics of Sentient Places: Climate Change, Collective Ethics, and Environmental Justice in Northern Peru

February 20, 2019

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York-Buffalo, speaks on poor mestizos in northern Peru, who offer a new way to theorize humanism and sentient landscapes that interact with humans in terms of environmental...

Trump's Wall: That's the Easy Part

February 19, 2019

Professor Frank Clooney writes of a "crude and heartless stretch of wall along the Mexican border."

Ethics Before Ego

February 15, 2019

Dr. Wylin Wilson, an HDS Women’s Studies in Religion Program research associate, is a robust scholar who is deeply concerned with the ethics of her research. Wilson examines African American religions and women in the U.S., and her work often lends itself...

Pope Francis' Sinful and Prophetic Church

February 14, 2019

Being holy is never a private thing; it is also a matter of being a good neighbor, messenger of peace, a healer and servant, a builder of community, particularly across religious borders, writes Professor Frank Clooney.

On Stealing a Golf Cart

February 14, 2019

Natalie Malter, PhD candidate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 14, 2019. ♦♦♦

Video: Indigenous Perspectives on Peacemaking in the Face of Racism

February 14, 2019

This Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium explores the intersection of racism, oppression, urban trauma, disaster, and other social realities faced by those desperately in need of peace. More than the absence of violence and war, we need the...

Film Festival Explores Religious Experiences, Tragedy, and Ministry

February 13, 2019

On February 7, HDS kicked off its second annual film festival with a screening of the critically-acclaimed documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018). The film’s executive producer, Geralyn Dreyfous, appeared via Skype following the screening for a...

Digital Christianity

February 13, 2019

Kera Street, MTS ’10, PhD candidate in the study of religion, and former DivEx participant now explores digital media, religion, and where and how they intersect.

Inspiration from Dad and Grandma: A Theology of Holistic Care, Human Relatedness

February 12, 2019

Damaris S. Parsitau, Women's Studies in Religion Program 2018-19 Research Associate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 12, 2019.