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Tennessee Representative Justin Jones Talks ‘Leading with Love’ in Harvard Divinity School Event

November 10, 2023

Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones—one of two lawmakers expelled from the state legislature last spring by Tennessee’s House Republicans for involvement in a gun control protest on the House floor—discussed his experiences as an activist, legislator, and minister at a Harvard Divinity School event on November 9.

US Official Calls Religious Intolerance in India 'Frightening'

July 18, 2023

"U.S. advocacy for religious freedom must be conflict-sensitive, so as not to render already vulnerable communities more vulnerable nor exacerbate religious dimensions of conflict," Susan Hayward, associate director of the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative, said while testifying before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.

Shurden Lecture Takes on the ‘Myth of American Chosenness’

June 2, 2023

“There is a significant difference between the eighteenth century and the present. The white Christian nationalists who supported the American Revolution were tainted by their racism and their refusal to extend political rights to women, but they defended the principle of democracy, even if it was only partially fulfilled as a positive good," said HDS Professor Catherine Brekus. "Today, however, white Christian nationalists are so convinced they have been called to uphold the nation’s special covenant with God that they have been willing to dismantle the legacy of the American Revolution, including the separation of church and state, to preserve their political dominance. Many are no longer committed to the core principles of democracy. White Christian nationalists believe they must protect the nation, which they see as sacred, from the government, which they argue has become corrupt.”

Meet the Five New Jewish House Members

January 30, 2023

Congressman Greg Landsman, MTS '04, is one of the new Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 118th Congress.

Five Harvard Grads Among Newly Elected Members of 118th Congress

January 13, 2023

Rep. Greg J. Landsman (D-Ohio), MTS '04, is among the newly elected Harvard University alumni, joining 77 other freshman members of Congress who took office in 2023.

In Run-up to Election, French Politics Has Normalized Anti-Muslim Sentiment: Experts

April 23, 2022

“Worse still, on some issues it’s very hard to see any difference between Macron and Le Pen, especially on the visibility of Muslims. Some of Macron’s ministers have been even more excessive than she has on this matter," says HDS Visiting Professor Jocelyne Cesari.

Was Donald Trump America's First Atheist President?

March 8, 2022

"Throughout his presidency, he has had an uncanny ability to exploit the worst features of America's racist history for his own advancement, and on some level, he seems to have understood that the Bible has been used not only to defend the principles of love and redemption, but also, in the white Christian imagination, racial subordination," says Professor Catherine Brekus.

Martin Luther King Jr. Remembered as Twelfth Baptist Church Honors Wu with MLK Legacy Award

January 9, 2022

The Rev. Willie Bodrick II, MDiv '14, senior pastor at the Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, stood at the pulpit Sunday and recalled the first time he met Michelle Wu a decade ago. The two were graduate students at Harvard—Wu in law school and Bodrick at the divinity school—when they took a class with renowned Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree. One day after class, Ogletree introduced Bodrick to Wu, telling them, “You all should get to know each other.”

Q&A: You Know We’re at War, Right?

January 6, 2022

"Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, the abolitionists of old, couldn’t vote their way to freedom. They had to do a lot more than that. That’s what I’m saying: We’ve got to do a lot more than that," says Cornell William Brooks, HDS Visiting Professor of the Practice of Prophetic Religion and Public Leadership.

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