An Amazing and Perfectly Ordinary Trip to India
Professor Francis X. Clooney writes about his most recent trip to India where he delivered lectures and attended a conference on Ramanuja, the great theologian of the Shrivaishnava Hindu community.
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A Pilgrimage of Virginia Woolf Readers
Pilgrimages draw their power from the wisdom that religious traditions have passed down through the generations: how walking together can create a community out of strangers; how a book can become a portable, generative sacred space; how a shared meal can...
Renewing Andover: Sessions Scheduled for Community Input
Earlier this year it was announced that, thanks to a number of significant gifts, including a lead gift from artist and philanthropist Susan Shallcross Swartz and her husband, investor James R. Swartz, AB '64, HDS will be able to move forward with a...
What Allows Sex Abuse to Proliferate within the Catholic Church
Professor Mark Jordan discusses truth and secrecy within the Catholic Church following the release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report.
Charlie Stang on Keeping the Faith
Professor Charlie Stang, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, talks about how he formed his Christian identity, discovering his love of Ashkenazi food, and the challenge of finding good babka in Israel.
The Language of Learning
Though Harvard’s many serene campuses can be fairly quiet during the summer, such is not the case at Harvard Divinity School. In early June, students flock to HDS to participate in the Summer Language Program (SLP), an intensive, two-month program that...
The Contrast Between the Bible's Idea of History and the Modern Idea
Given its practical goal, its theological purposes, and its lack of accountability to external data of the sort in which archaeologists trade, biblical historiography has a malleability that many modern readers find difficult to approve, writes Professor...
The God of Small Spaces
The following sermon was delivered by Derek van Bever, MBA '88, MDiv '11, at the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill. ♦♦♦ Mark 10:17-31 17 As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must...
Humans of HDS: Revelation and Awakening
“A few months after my daughter was born, we moved to Colombia. My plan was to work part time, to take advantage of having my family around to help out with my daughter. But rather than working for pay, I ended up doing volunteer work. That year in...
The Catholic Church, Pope Francis, and the Penalty of Death
On August 2, the Vatican announced a change in the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty. The new teaching rejects the notion that capital punishment is legitimate in some cases, declaring that “‘the death penalty is...
Religious Education Through New Eyes
Prospect High School social studies teacher John Camardella is wading into the intellectual unknown, all for the benefit of his students. The Illinois native and veteran educator recently threw out the playbook and, with the help of HDS's Religious...
Cardinal McCarrick, the Sins of the Church, the Faith of the People
"We cannot have a Church whose policy it is to reward professional, clerical sinners with positions of leadership in the Church, while telling other Catholics to repent and reform their lives," writes Professor Francis Clooney, S.J.
