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Gospel Explores Black Spirituality in Sermon and Song

February 12, 2024
Professor Ahmad Greene-Hayes and Dean Marla F. Frederick were featured in the new PBS special Gospel. The series, hosted by Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explores the origins of Black spirituality through sermons and songs.
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Takács Quartet Debuts Flow

February 7, 2024
Nokuthula Ngwenyama, MTS '02, a composer and violinist, discusses her musical composition Flow, and how she embraces the cosmos…or lets it embrace her.
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Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling

July 24, 2022
“I think part of creating anything is having hope that there is something else that’s possible,” said Maggie Rogers, MRPL '22.
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Connecting the Monk and the Reveler with Lindsay Sanwald, MDiv ‘22

May 9, 2022

“Why is it so hard to write one beautiful sentence? Because it is an act of God.”

 

Lindsay Sanwald, MDiv ’22, is a creative producer, sober bartender, queer mystic, and psychedelic indie-rocker, stage name Idgy Dean. At HDS, she studied Vedic literature, mysticism, monasticism, creative writing, and music ritual. She will be the Graduate Student Speaker at Harvard University’s 369th Commencement.... Read more about Connecting the Monk and the Reveler with Lindsay Sanwald, MDiv ‘22

Progressing into Mindfulness

Progressing into Mindfulness

February 6, 2018

Chris Berlin is a counselor to Buddhist students and Instructor in Ministry and Pastoral Counseling at HDS. He is part of a musical group consisting of several HDS alumni and students called Satigata. The group, formed at HDS, recently released an album called “Boundless,” which is a blend of Buddhist chanting, modern rock, and folk set to guitar, hand drums, and Buddhist bells.... Read more about Progressing into Mindfulness

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