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Audio: "Pray Without Ceasing"

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"Pray without ceasing, Jesus teaches, keep knocking at the door....It is through prayer that both we, and God, become who we were meant to be." Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies at HDS, delivered the Sunday Sermon...

The Women Who Want to Be Priests

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“I’m going to stay and fix my church somehow," says Kori Pacyniak, MDiv '11, who was eight when they told their grandmother they wanted to become a priest.

From the Pulpit to the Airwaves

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It is possible that Jerry Lewis—the American comedian and entertainer—does not know what has become of his old six-screen cinema on Crescent Avenue in Brockton, Massachusetts. For nearly six years now, the weathered building—tucked near the outer edge of...

Paulsell Named Interim Pusey Minister

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HDS Professor Stephanie Paulsell, who has been an affiliated minister at Memorial Church for the past seven years, has been named interim Pusey Minister.

Acting on Faith

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Eboni Haynes has gone by many names: actress, Angeleno, Catholic—but now she prefers Nola, in homage to her beleaguered and beloved hometown of New Orleans. "After the Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010, friends started calling me Nola, and I liked it,"...

'Social Justice Is Unfinished Business'

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Originally from the Atlanta area, Christopher Hope is one of many Harvard Divinity School students with a passion for social justice and ministry. Below, the second-year master of divinity student at HDS describes growing up through economic difficulties...

PBS Special Includes Three HDS Professors

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Three Harvard Divinity School professors are among the 40 participants interviewed in Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith, a two-hour documentary making its Boston prime-time television debut on WGBH-TV Tuesday, April 2 from 9 to 11 PM (it will also...

Newly Digitized: The Papers of William Ellery Channing

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Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1819, Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing spoke at a Baltimore church and delivered what would be described nearly two centuries later as probably the most important Unitarian sermon ever preached anywhere. Now, the...

Studying the DIV to Fight HIV

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Barber looks at the way religion shapes HIV transmission, treatment, and prevention Darius (not his real name) grew up African American and gay in the socially conservative American South. Life wasn’t easy, but his mother loved and sheltered him. He...

'The Earth, Our Home'

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Pope Francis's encyclical brings to mind Pope Paul VI's imperative. In his encyclical on social justice, Paul VI said that if we want peace, we must work for justice. Why? Because peace and justice are interconnected. Pope Francis's encyclical urges that...

Things Unseen

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Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies and Interim Pusey Minister at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks during Sunday Services at Memorial Church on March 8, 2020. ♦♦♦