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An Angry Jesus for Our Times?

November 07, 2017

In today’s political climate, everything is taking on a hostile and confrontational tone. We are increasingly alienated, unable and unwilling to understand and respect one another anymore, writes Professor Frank Clooney.

To Listen the Way God Listens

November 06, 2017

Sometimes the Rev. Katherine Buechner Arthaud, MDiv ’86, wonders if she’s making a difference. The crowd in the pews on Sundays can be small in the rural Vermont churches she serves. She’s not sure that her sermons always resonate with parishioners. A...

Video: Look Inside, Walk Outside: How to Develop Inner Peace While Living in the Modern World

November 06, 2017

As part of the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Speakers Series, Khenpo Sodargye speaks about developing inner peace. Khenpo Sodargye is the abbot and senior educator at the renowned Larung Buddhist Institute, the largest Buddhist academy of this kind in...

Video: Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas

November 06, 2017

Mark D. Jordan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought (HDS) and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Faculty of Arts and Sciences), discusses his recent publication, Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas...

A People Rediscovered: New Lecture Series Deepens Harvard Ties With Mexico

November 02, 2017

In 1978 in Mexico City, workers from an electrical company digging in the city center unearthed an enormous carved stone disk depicting an Aztec goddess. In the hands of Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Mexico’s premier archaeologist, that disk unlocked the door...

Divinity School Class Offers Pain, Joy, and Wisdom

November 02, 2017

Students seeking knowledge go to Harvard. Students seeking wisdom go to Harvard Hall — and there, on every Wednesday afternoon, grapple with some of the most difficult, fundamental, and existential questions facing humankind. What is our purpose? How do...

Video: Journeys: Bridging the Us/Them Divide in the Global Refugee Crisis

November 01, 2017

The world is currently facing the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, and little substantive aid is forthcoming from Wealthy Western countries, who often politicize refugees as national threats. This panel discusses storytelling, advocacy, and...

Martin Luther, Fallible Reformer

October 31, 2017

On Oct. 31, 1517, the German priest and professor of theology Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a Wittenberg church, protesting all that he saw wrong with the late-Renaissance Roman Catholic power structure. Outraged by the church’s...

Video: Current Challenges & Opportunities of Building a Shared Society in Israel

October 30, 2017

As part of the ministry colloquium series Mohammad Darawshe speaks about the current challenges of and opportunities for building a shared society in Israel. He is the director of planning, equality and shared society at Givat Haviva, the Center for...

Hindu Monk Talks 'Modern Monasticism' at Divinity School

October 27, 2017

Student Hal Edmonson said the monasticism series at the CSWR aims "to show the diversity of contemplative practices that exists in Boston and around the world, and what that wisdom has to offer to a very complex moment in our history."

Exploring Interreligious Dialogue in Poland

October 26, 2017

HDS is known to take interfaith dialogue very seriously. But what happens when that dialogue leaves the classroom? How does it work in the context of the “real world”—where faith is lived in addition to studied—and where trauma is a matter of experience...

Try Hard, Find God, Get Rich

October 25, 2017

The prosperity gospel has gained an important foothold in U.S. politics. Professor Jonathan Walton, Visiting Professor E.J. Dionne, and author Sally Quinn discuss the subject as part of a panel at Harvard Kennedy School.