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Responding to Hate with Grace

March 29, 2018

Simran Jeet Singh was running home from his office at New York University when he heard the slur. His first impulse was to ignore it as he had so many times in the past. Then he stopped, stiffened, and turned back to the young man who had shouted at him...

Enlightenment Here

March 29, 2018

"Enlightenment is all the brighter on the more richly diverse common ground where we meet every kind of believer and non-believer," writes Professor Frank Clooney in a rebuttle to Steven Pinker's new book Enlightenment Now.

Educators Protest Deportations at City Hall Plaza

March 29, 2018

HDS faculty and students explain why they joined a demonstration in support of immigrants during a recent rally outside the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston.

Comparing (and Contrasting) Catholic and Jewish Reactions to the Modern Liberal Order

March 28, 2018

Professor Jon Levenson writes that for traditional Jews and Catholics alike, liberalism has presented parallel but different dangers; but so has anti-liberalism.

Quiz: Passover and Easter

March 28, 2018

What does the Hebrew word Seder mean? What group performs the Passover sacrifice even to this day? What does Lent commemorate? Test your knowledge of the traditions and origins of two major religious holidays with an HDS quiz on Passover and Easter. Take...

To Hear the Cries of the World

March 28, 2018

Karen Tse, MDiv '00, walked into a prison in the African nation of Burundi and found children: an eight-year-old boy tossed into jail for stealing a mobile phone; twelve-year-old girls imprisoned for "sex crimes"; a two-year old girl who had spent most of...

Illuminating HDS's "Faces of Divinity"

March 28, 2018

"The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote in Requiem for a Nun. “It's not even past." Faulkner’s sentiment was top of mind for HDS Senior Lecturer Ann Braude when she and her team of three doctoral students took on the Herculean task of telling the...

A Harvard to Make Du Bois Nod Yes

March 27, 2018

John Silvanus Wilson, MTS '81, was appointed by Harvard President Drew Faust as senior adviser and strategist on diversity, belonging, and inclusion. In an interview, he reflects on the goals of the new inclusion and belonging report, and why they matter.

WSRP Announces 2018–19 Research Associates

March 26, 2018

Five new Research Associates will join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects during the 2018–19 academic year.

Video: Arvo Pärt's White Light: A Panel and Performance

March 26, 2018

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is the most performed living composer in the world today. His style is often characterized as a “mystic” or “holy” minimalism, inspired in part by Gregorian chant. This panel explores the religious dimensions of Pärt’s music...

HDS Lecturer Offers Sanctuary to Family at Church

March 23, 2018

Rev. Steven R. Jungkeit, the senior minister of The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme in Connecticut, and a Lecturer on Ethics at HDS, said his church is offering sanctuary to a married couple and their child as the couple faced deportation.

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma to Deliver Lecture in Cambridge on April 10

March 19, 2018

Harvard University is honored to welcome Professor Eduardo Matos Moctezuma on April 10, 2018 to deliver the lecture, “ Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Discovers Himself: Excavations of the Great Aztec Temple,” at 6 pm, at the Geological Lecture Hall (24 Oxford...