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

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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...

Leadership by Example

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Robert Franklin is worried about America. He sees distance, mistrust, and division in society eroding the foundations of U.S. democracy. A student of political science, Franklin understands that changing demographics, geographic isolation, identity...

Responding to Hate with Grace

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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

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"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.

Humans of HDS: Bringing Knowledge Out of Ivory Towers

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“If I’m not getting better, then I’m stagnating, and if I’m stagnating, what’s the point? So I have to be pushing myself, questioning who I am. Hinduism to me is finding my dharma through a process of self-improvement.”—Abhijith Ravinutala, MTS ’19

To Fight the Alt-Right

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Jalane Schmidt could hear the chants across the street from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Charlottesville, Virginia on the night of August 11, 2017. “Blood and soil!” the torch-bearing marchers shouted as they gathered in front of a statue of Thomas...

Video: 2018 Billings Preaching Prize

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HDS students Hal Edmonson, Lou Fish-Sadin, Sally Fritsche, and Isaac Martinez deliver sermons for the Billings Preaching Prize Competition during Noon Service on April 11, 2018. In addition, Samm Melton, the Massachusetts Bible Society scripture reading...

Heart of Mettle Seeks More Than Medals

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This time it wasn’t about the medals. For Daniel Cnossen, it was about recapturing what drove his passion for the Navy SEALs: discipline, intensity, training, focus, commitment, and teamwork. And it was about adding another challenge to the adventure he’s...

Making Our Words into Gifts: 2018 Billings Preaching Competition

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Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...