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An Ark in the Reeds

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Dudley Rose is associate dean for ministry studies and lecturer on ministry. On January 27, 2019, he delivered the sermon during Sunday Services at Memorial Church. Below are his remarks. ♦♦♦

Making Our Case

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Stephanie Paulsell is the Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies. On October 14, 2018, she delivered the sermon during Sunday Services at Memorial Church. Below are her remarks. ♦♦♦

Peter Gomes Receives Black Alumni/ae Award

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The Harvard Divinity School Alumni/ae Association is pleased to announce that the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Preston N. Williams Black Alumni/ae Award. He will...

Kevin Madigan: Morning Prayers

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Text: Matt. 19:16-22 This text, and especially the injunction to "sell your possessions," is like a parabolic Sermon on the Mount—a sermon on Mount Everest at that—all by itself. Your banker, not to mention your priest or minister, is unlikely to think...

Audio: Deepening the Theological Roots of Our Work

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At a recent Noon Service, MDiv degree candidate Shelley Brown delivered a sermon on being theologically rooted in her work as an MIT scientist and a Harvard preacher. Listen to or read it below. 'But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all...

Marker of Faith

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If ministry is a call, Willie Bodrick II had a clear response for most of his life: No. "People say you run to your calling, but I ran from mine," Bodrick says. "Everyone told me all my life, 'You ought to be a preacher.' I never really felt like I was...

Spiritual and Sustainable

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It's considered a serious threat to the future and it's what HDS Dean David N. Hempton called one of the topics of our lifetime. Climate change and its impact on the world are why HDS holds among its values a commitment to sustainability and being a good...

Huddled Around the Last of the Light

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On October 23, 2018, MDiv candidate Amy Weston gave the following sermon during the Tuesday morning Ecumenical Eucharist in Andover Chapel. ♦♦♦ Remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers...

Building up the Wheat

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Dudley Rose, associate dean for ministry studies and Lecturer on Ministry delivered the following sermon during HDS's virtual Noon Service hosted by the Office of Ministry Studies on October 14, 2020. ♦♦♦ Matthew 13:24–30 Let us pray: Gracious God...

Luther's Media Phenomenon

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Martin Luther did more than just serve as a catalyst for the Reformation. By nailing his 95 theses to the door of a Wittenberg, Germany, church in 1517, he became the world's first mass media figure and launched a new form of theological writing, argues...

Evangelical Support for Roy Moore Explained

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Doug Jones pulled off an upset victory December 12 over Republican Roy Moore by becoming first Democrat to claim a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years. According to preliminary exit polling conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool, the...

Ahmed Toufiq: Modern Speech in Orthodox Islam

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Visiting Professor Ahmed Toufiq presented the lecture "The Friday Sermon: Searching for a Modern Speech in Orthodox Islam" on Tuesday, March 13, 2001, in the Sperry Room of Andover Hall. His lecture was the first public event in the expanding program in...