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Video: Innovative Ministry
Cornelia Holden, MDiv ’03 shares her experiences as a spiritual innovator and founder of Mindful Warrior and the Core Leadership California at Ministry Colloquium. Audio
Why We Still Go to Mass on Sunday: Part I
"The world is a hard and sometimes bitter place, and the crisis in the Church only makes things worse. But this means that there is a still greater need, then, to 'go to church,'" writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, in the first part of a two-part blog...
Why We Still Go to Mass on Sunday: Part II
"At Mass we have the opportunity to deepen what we hear and think through prayer and petition, praise and worship, culminating in sharing at the altar in the Eucharistic Body and Blood of Christ," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, in the second part of...
Faith, Community Leaders Work Together to End Malaria Worldwide
Despite malaria remaining a major disease, infecting more than 200 million people and killing nearly 500,000 a year, such great progress was made against it that the World Health Organization (WHO) recently set a global target for eliminating the illness...
Video: Rethinking Malaria
Anglican church leaders from sub-Saharan Africa discuss the role of faith and how religious leaders and communities are working to end malaria for good. Learn more about the event Audio
Video: Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies, Methods, Histories, and Futures
Scholars discuss methods, histories and futures of thinking about Islam within religious studies. This day-long conference is in honor of Professor William A. Graham, who retired in July 2018 after a long and distinguished career at Harvard. It includes...
A Redemptive, Empowering Voice
Karen King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 2, 2018.
Video: On Exile and Elsewhere
André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name, and writer Benjamin Balint will discuss themes of exile and homecoming, of time, place, identity, and art across Aciman’s works of fiction and nonfiction.
Video: Turning Ghosts into Ancestors
Anna Sun, 2018–19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture "Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual, Gender, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China."
Humans of HDS: Serendipitous Encounters
“Recently, I have realized that, at the bottom of everything, I came to the study of South Asian religion and Indian philosophy because I couldn’t imagine not reading Sanskrit every day.”— Eliot Davenport, MTS '18
‘Lens of Love’ Focuses on Justice
Jonathan Walton, Professor of Religion and Society and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, offers a fresh perspective on the Bible’s overarching message of justice in his new book A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in its World for Our World.
