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The Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series, the first lecture series to be named for a Mexican citizen in Harvard University’s 400-year history, was launched three years ago as part of a collaboration between Mexican cultural institutions and Harvard. (...

“It’s important—even if we don’t stay in the religious tradition we were raised in—to be grateful for it, whatever it is. God uses those traditions, those people, and the communities we were raised in to make us into the people we’re supposed to be.”...

"I know that the people in that church are praying for me all the time—even when I was sick and lost and messing up, doing dumb stuff, there was somebody praying for me. I think, to be able to dedicate my life to those people, there is no greater honor...

“I always try to show the beauty of Islam through my actions and not just my words. If, for example, I’m fighting against gender inequality, I show people how Islam has given equality to men and women. If I’m talking about anti-racist discourse, then I...

“The idea of Shabbat—the way that I’ve always taken it to heart, or what makes me feel better when I’m so overwhelmed with work and asking, “How can I take a day off?”—is the guiding principle that you spend six days changing the world and then one day...

“A few months after my daughter was born, we moved to Colombia. My plan was to work part time, to take advantage of having my family around to help out with my daughter. But rather than working for pay, I ended up doing volunteer work. That year in...

“A huge learning in my project emerged when I realized that I didn’t have to make the case that Buddhism and play have something to offer each other. Rather than impress anyone with my nifty theorizing, I could just guide some meditation practices...

Richard A. Grounds, PhD, explores the appropriate responses for social justice and the case for reparations for Native American languages. Grounds delivered the Dana McLean Greeley Lecture for Peace and Social Justice at the Center for the Study of World...

"The classroom atmosphere is vibrant, the professors are some of the best in the world, and the field education experience is transformative." Upali Sramon, a 2013–14 Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Scholar with the Buddhist Ministry Program, discusses...

Gretchen Legler, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 7, 2020. ♦♦♦

Based on in-depth interviews with Jewish Palestine solidarity activists and a study of Jewish solidarity movements on social media, Atalia Omer demonstrates in When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and...

The election, inauguration, and first days of President Donald Trump have deepened divisions between the nation’s political parties and its people. Many, afraid and angry, wonder how to respond in the years ahead. We could all do worse than revisit Jesus’...