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313 results for "End of Life"
313 results for "End of Life"

Bringing the Sacred to the Soldier

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2020 Gomes Honoree Karen Meeker Ministers to Warriors' "Moral Injuries" An explosion killed the sons of a local family, but the mother made it to Bagram Air Base, the largest U.S. military facility in Afghanistan. There she gave birth to a baby girl. The...

Creativity and the Life of Faith

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Stephanie Paulsell is the Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies. On July 30, she delivered the sermon during Sunday Services at Memorial Church. Below are her remarks. ♦♦♦ One of the books we read in my summer school...

Visiting Fellows Named for 2000-01

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The Center for the Study of Values in Public Life has named four visiting fellows for the 2000-2001 academic year; they are Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Mary Hunt, Bill McKibben, and Julie Nelson. The Women’s Studies in Religion Program has named five such...

Knowledge Is Power

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With every human society growing more religiously and culturally pluralistic, the study of world religions has never been more crucial to stability, progress, and peace. This was the theme of presentations given at the annual Leadership Day celebration at...

Legacies and Complex Histories: A Memphis Narrative

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Kayla J. Smith, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks during Noon Service in Andover Chapel on April 3, 2019. ♦♦♦ April 4, 2019, marked the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in my hometown, Memphis, Tennessee...

A Mentor Remembered

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Katie Ford and Sarah Sentilles studied under Gordon Kaufman a decade ago when they were enrolled in the MDiv program at HDS. Ford, MDiv '01, went on to become a poet and professor of English, and Sentilles, MDiv '01, earned a ThD from HDS in 2008 and...

Holy Memories of the Faith, Lived Anew, Together

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Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, offers a reflection for Holy Week. This week Christians across the world mark the holiest days of the Christian calendar: Holy (Maundy) Thursday, Good Friday...

Compassion for Others, Commitment to Service

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I am the third oldest of 10 children, born into and raised in a supportive Roman Catholic family. While my mother is Catholic, my father is Jewish, and I grew up culturally celebrating my father's Jewish heritage alongside my mother's Catholic tradition...

All Change Requires Loss: 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...

Cornel West's 'Prophetic Fightback'

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In August, Cornel West stood arm-in-arm with clergy members in Charlottesville, Virginia, singing “This Little Light of Mine” while white supremacist groups spat at them and shouted racial epithets. Just weeks later, the HDS Professor of the Practice of...