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Harvard Divinity School students took part in a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of their course "The Museum as a Buddhist Institution" led by HDS faculty member Charles Hallisey. Photo by Huayu Liu

Harvard Divinity Scholar, Student Explore Museums as Sites for Buddhist Ministry

March 25, 2024

This interview is one in an ongoing series exploring the intersection of art and religion in HDS courses.

How can we imagine a better world from within our current context? When Charles Hallisey, MDiv ’78, and Molly Silverstein, MDiv ’22, began discussing their Harvard Divinity School course “The Museum as a Buddhist Institution,” this question directed their investigations and collaboration.... Read more about Harvard Divinity Scholar, Student Explore Museums as Sites for Buddhist Ministry

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Great Salt Lake-Inspired Words, Music Shared by Visiting Group from Harvard

March 18, 2024

The Fielding Garr Ranch at Antelope Island State Park in Utah served as the venue for a “gratitude concert,” during which lake-inspired poetry, song and music was performed. The event was organized by Terry Tempest Williams, a conservationist, educator and writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School, or HDS. Having studied the Great Salt Lake for one year, Williams and a group of 15 HDS students have made a pilgrimage to its shores as a culminating moment.

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It May Be Neither Higher nor Intelligence

March 14, 2024
“Whatever AI can tell us about how to reckon with the material reality that we’re subject to illness and death, us, humans, are still going to reckon with that. That is when religion becomes significant," said Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church.
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Divinity School Harambee Group Hosts Screening of Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s New Docuseries

March 7, 2024

Faculty and staff from across Harvard gathered for a screening of “Gospel,” a new docuseries produced and hosted by University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. The event, hosted by HDS Harambee Students of African Descent, consisted of a reception, a screening, and a panel discussion with Gates, and HDS Dean Marla F. Frederick and HDS Professor Ahmad Greene-Hayes, who both appear in the docuseries.

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Yang Scholar Nathanael Homewood Explores ‘Worlds Thought Impossible’ in World Christianity

March 7, 2024

Nathanael J. Homewood is a Yang Visiting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School for the 2023-24 academic year. His research focuses on Christianity in Africa, especially Ghanaian Pentecostalism, and the large-scale connections between Western and non-Western Christianity in America.... Read more about Yang Scholar Nathanael Homewood Explores ‘Worlds Thought Impossible’ in World Christianity

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Calling It as He Sees It

March 5, 2024
HDS Professor Davíd Carrasco was one of several professors who guided broadcast legend Gus Johnson' studies at Harvard's year-long Advanced Leadership Initiative. Carrasco recently organized a dinner and event for students to mingle and hear from Johnson.
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