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Video: Radically Happy: Meditation and Mindfulness Based in Ancient Wisdom

November 13, 2018

Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon are authors of the recently released book Radically Happy: A User’s Guide to the Mind. These two meditation experts—a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and a traditionally trained Tibetan Rinpoche— discussed their...

World War I: "Psychic Shock"

November 10, 2018

November 11, 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, a conflict that claimed the lives of nearly nine million soldiers and civilians, with more than three times that number wounded, taken prisoner, or gone missing. One century later...

Myth of Modernity

November 09, 2018

Professor Mayra Rivera joins the discussion for the latest Ministry of Ideas podcast episode. Many think modernity is about the rise of science, the spread of democracy and capitalism, or the decline of religion or superstition. But those stories ignore...

Across Traditions and Texts, Bringing Light to Darkness

November 08, 2018

Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 8, 2018.

Project Offers Holistic View on Environmental Issues

November 08, 2018

In reaction to the growing challenges posed by global environmental change, author and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and Sam Myers, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health principal research scientist and Planetary...

Video: Dudleian Lecture - Kristallnacht 1938: Crescendo and Overture

November 08, 2018

Peter Hayes (Ph.D., Yale, 1982) specializes in the histories of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and, in particular, in the conduct of the nation’s largest corporations during the Third Reich. Dr. Hayes gave this year's Dudleian Lecture on "Kristallnacht...

Mitt Romney Goes to Washington After All

November 07, 2018

"For many people, the role of religion in politics is less about a set of prescriptions to which decisions can be confidently ascribed and more about a set of resources that individuals can choose to bring to bear on their decision-making process," writes...

Video: Sound Education Conference

November 02, 2018

Sound Education was a 3-day event at Harvard University for educational and academic podcasters and radio hosts, and their listeners. It was hosted by Ministry of Ideas, a podcast based at Harvard Divinity School (HDS). Learn more about the event here...

Podcast: For Trump’s Evangelicals, the Inconvenient Teachings of Christ

November 01, 2018

Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election thanks in large part to overwhelming support from one particular group of folks: white evangelicals. In fact, a whopping 81 percent of self-identified evangelicals voted for President Trump. That’s even more...

Marigolds to Decorate Altar for Boston’s First Official Day of the Dead Observance

November 01, 2018

“Who are the ancestors that are being invited back? Not just Mexicans,” says HDS Professor David Carrasco. “The Mexican Day of the Dead is inclusive . . . anybody can come.”

Video: Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Gender, Authorship, and the Visionary Text

October 31, 2018

Barbara Zimbalist, 2018–19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture "Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Visionary Translation, Divine Rhetoric, and Verbal Devotion in England, France, and the Low Countries."

Tree of Life Massacre Has Roots in Religious Hatred

October 30, 2018

In the deadliest incident of anti-Semitic violence in U.S. history, 46 year-old Robert Bowers allegedly shot dead 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh during morning Shabbat services on Saturday, October 27. During a gunfight with...