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Ali S. Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures (FAS), delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on September 19, 2019. ♦♦♦ To God belongs the East and the West, wherever you turn there is the...

The United States is suffering through an epidemic of youth mental illness. For Varun Soni, MTS ’99, the crisis is not only one of mind, but also of spirit. The nonprofit, independent news site The Conversation reports that “from 2009 to 2017, major...

The United States' general response to the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, and its invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have left many Muslims feeling besieged. In the United States, they protest that the Patriot Act and other regulations target...

The Los Angeles Times announced February 21 that one of its prestigious book prizes will be presented to HDS Writer-in-Residence Terry Tempest Williams. According to the Times, Williams will receive the Robert Kirsch Award, a lifetime achievement prize...

In his teaching and research, Matthew Myer Boulton, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at HDS, explores ways in which Christian worship founds and forms Christian life. This exploration draws together his interests in the history and practices of...

During his six-day visit to the United States Pope Francis will speak at the White House, deliver speeches to Congress and at the United Nations, and celebrate a Mass at Madison Square Garden. But Harvard professors say that other items on the pope's...

This time it wasn’t about the medals. For Daniel Cnossen, it was about recapturing what drove his passion for the Navy SEALs: discipline, intensity, training, focus, commitment, and teamwork. And it was about adding another challenge to the adventure he’s...

Preston Williams has often been first: the first tenured African American member of the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) faculty; the first African American president of the Society of Christian Ethics; the founding director of Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois...

One of the core mandates of Harvard’s new Program for the Evolution of Spirituality is to look honestly at both the positive and negative dimensions of emerging spiritual movements. We are keenly aware that the abuse of power is a sensitive topic. Open...

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...

Curated by Terry Tempest Williams and Geralyn White Dreyfous, “The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination” is a special film series and salon open to all members of the Harvard community as well as the general public. The films, which...

The course of my entire adult life changed on a single day in October 2015, when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I was then an academic sojourner, dislodged into a temporality of ever-changing...