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392 results for "Ways of Knowing"
392 results for "Ways of Knowing"

Talking with God, from Ghana to California

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by Jahnabi Barooah Americans in new, charismatic evangelical churches need to work harder than Ghanaians in theologically similar settings to make God real. This is the provocative thesis that Tanya Marie Luhrmann put forward at Harvard Divinity School's...

Experience, Education, and a Chance to Make a Difference

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This summer, thanks to several generous gifts in support of Dean David N. Hempton's campaign initiatives, HDS launched a new effort to provide students with financial support so that they can serve communities locally and abroad through organizations...

Bearing Witness

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Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies Stephanie Paulsell was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Commencement Service on May 24, 2017. Below are her remarks: Professor Walton, Dean Hempton, dear colleagues...

Answering the Call to Inclusive Judaism

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Jeremy Sher was at a dead end. A 1999 MIT graduate with a degree in mathematics, Sher had a flourishing career in technology, but his heart wasn't in it. He felt called to life as a rabbi but couldn't attend traditional schools that prohibit interfaith...

Beautifully Foolish, Mighty in Wisdom

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In a short Q&A, recent HDS graduate Lucia Ruth Hulsether, MDiv '14, discusses the impact of her experiences at HDS, her work on interfaith engagement, and the meaning of "community" at HDS. What were you doing before you came to HDS? I came directly to...

Why Give? Religious Roots of Charity

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In the United States, the end of the year swells with charitable and giving occasions: clothing and food drives, Hanukkah and Christmas gifts, and end-of-year charitable appeals are all opportunities to be generous. But what do some of the world's major...

Stang Discusses the CSWR’s ‘Peculiar Alchemy’

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On July 1, Professor of Early Christian Thought Charles Stang became the seventh director of Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, succeeding Parkman Professor of Divinity Francis X. Clooney, S.J. A scholar of asceticism...

The Revolutionary

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Stephanie Spellers, MTS ’96, jumped enthusiastically into the culture wars raging on Wake Forest’s campus in the early 1990s. An African American woman at a southern school that had only recently begun to admit significant numbers of minority students...

Past, Present, and Future Tense: Harvey Cox and Amy Hollywood

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Soon after the 2004 presidential election, HDS professor Amy Hollywood was asked to participate in a panel discussion on the outcome of the voting. Hollywood remembers, "All I did was to present a hypothesis that I'd read in a smart web newsletter...

Student Profile: Marlon Millner

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After returning from a recent two-week trip to Cameroon, where he helped staff an ecumenical media team from the United States that was covering the Eighth General Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), second-year MDiv student Marlon...

Giving Thanks and Going Forward

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Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies Matthew L. Potts was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving for the Graduating Class on May 27, 2015. Below are his remarks, as prepared for delivery: It's a great honor to stand in...

Islam in America: Lessons in Diversity

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After waiting his turn to take part in a question-and-answer session during the "Islam in America" conference at Harvard last weekend, a young man approached the microphone, introduced himself, and said, "I'm a Muslim, and therefore, by definition, I'm a...