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569 results for "Humanism"

Bill McKibben Offers 'Reality Check' on Economic Growth

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On Monday, March 8, Bill McKibben will present a lecture as part of the Ecologies of Human Flourishing series, sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. The lecture, "Reality Check: How the Facts of Life on a...

Hempton Lays Out Bold Vision for HDS

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HDS Dean David N. Hempton launched the Campaign for Harvard Divinity School on April 4, 2014, with an address that laid out a bold vision that builds on the School's tradition of religious education, service, and scholarly excellence. What follows is the...

Stem Cells, Through a Religious Lens

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Representatives of three of the world’s major religions tangled over the beginnings of human life, the disposal of surplus embryos from in vitro fertilization clinics, and the conduct of embryonic stem cell research at HDS.

The Love of God

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Professor Jon Levenson discusses his latest book, The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism, in which he explores the origin and development of the idea of "love of God."

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...

Hempton: Work Toward Peace Every Day

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HDS Dean David N. Hempton is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe, North America, and beyond. On September 21, 2016, he spoke at the Morning Prayers service in Holden Chapel, Harvard...

Video: 2013 Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving

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The Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving for the Class of 2013 took place in the Memorial Church on May 29, 2013. The faculty speaker was Susan Abraham, who delivered the talk "The Vocation of Human Be-ing."

'It Can Be Done'

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Karen Tse had a vision. As a second-year student at HDS in the late 1990s, she imagined founding an organization that would end the use of torture by law enforcement around the world. She even made her dream the topic of her master of divinity thesis...

Dean David N. Hempton on Belonging at Harvard

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A few years ago, Harvard President Drew Faust commissioned a University-wide Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. The presidential charge delivered to the committee, under the title “From Diversity to Belonging,” states that: “ A community that draws on...