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Video: RPP Colloquium: The Restorative Justice Approach

October 05, 2017

This session of the fourth annual RPP Colloquium dinner series explores restorative justice, its spiritual dimensions, and the potential contributions of its approach to advancing sustainable peace in our communities and our world. The session features...

Walton Demands Gun Control at Memorial Church Morning Prayers

October 05, 2017

Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, speaks out at Morning Prayers and calls for stricter gun regulations in the wake of the mass shootings in Las Vegas, Orlando, Charleston, Newtown and...

Restorative Justice: Spiritual Resources for Sustainable Peace in Communities

October 03, 2017

Religions and the Practice of Peace kicked off its 2017-18 colloquium dinner series October 5 with a talk focusing on the restorative justice approach. It will explore restorative justice, its spiritual dimensions, and the potential contributions of its...

The Arithmetic of Forgiveness

September 29, 2017

What would it look like to practice radical forgiveness? Zachary Davis, second-year MTS candidate, explores this issue in the sermon below, which he delivered Sept. 27 at Noon Service, hosted by the HDS Latter-day Saint Student Association. ♦♦♦ On October...

Harvard Announces Inaugural Lecture of the Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series

September 28, 2017

HDS Dean David N. Hempton will be part of a delegation traveling from Harvard to Mexico for the inaugural Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture on October 3. In an effort to renew its commitment to collaborations with Mexico on research and education, Harvard...

Reformation and Racial Taxonomies: An Underexplored Narrative of Modernity

September 28, 2017

This year's Dudleian Lecture is presented by Dr. Paul C.H. Lim, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. Audio

Becoming Angels on Yom Kippur

September 28, 2017

Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, typically involves standing for hours with a hungry belly and a parched throat. These bodily deprivations underscore the biblical commandment to afflict our souls—an affliction that may engender liberation. Elliot...

The Reformation and the Religious and Racial Other

September 27, 2017

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, this year’s Dudleian Lecture will feature a presentation on the movement’s connection to modernity. Paul C.H. Lim, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and Associate Professor of Religious...

New Faculty Members Excited to Share, and Build, Knowledge

September 26, 2017

“It’s almost surreal,” said Todne Thomas, Assistant Professor of African American Religions at HDS and the Suzanne Young Murray Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. “Seeing faculty whose work I’ve been reading over the years...

Listening with the Ear of the Heart

September 25, 2017

MDiv candidate Tim Gallati is studying experiences of “silence” in nature and contemplative practice with applications in virtual and augmented realities. His research focuses on accounts of listening to “silence” in sound art, poetry, and Catholic...

Humans of HDS: Being Muslim in America

September 22, 2017

HDS student Sidra Ali on growing up in the culturally homogenous suburbs of Detroit, how food helps develop positive relationships with neighbors, and the aesthetics of identity.

The Life of Faith Requires Muscle Memory

September 22, 2017

"How can I help my students and myself open up the space around our theology and give it room to become something more than we have yet imagined," writes Professor Stephanie Paulsell.