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Participants seated in a circle the Braun Room of Swartz Hall during the October Common Read opening session.

Head and Heart Work: Harvard Divinity Community Spends Year Deeply Engaged with Harvard Legacy of Slavery Report

April 18, 2023

On a fall afternoon in November inside Harvard Divinity School’s Swartz Hall, the School’s Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Melissa Wood Bartholomew along with Assistant Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Steph Gauchel and their colleagues Professors David Holland and Diane Moore, prepared to lead a small group restorative circle session for the HDS community to discuss the report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery. They arranged chairs in a circle for participants and readied an agenda with multiple questions to pose to attendees.... Read more about Head and Heart Work: Harvard Divinity Community Spends Year Deeply Engaged with Harvard Legacy of Slavery Report

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Purifying Body and Mind, Building Community

April 10, 2023
Sultan Khan, a second-year MDiv student at Harvard Divinity School, said he felt called to help again at Harvard's iftar dinners after last year. He joked with Imam Khalil Abdur-Rashid, one of Harvard's Muslim chaplains, that he was back to replenish his barakah, or “blessings,” for the year after Ramadan.
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‘To Understand the World but Also to Change the World’

March 10, 2023
“My motivation was to study Paul Farmer just as much as to study with Arthur Kleinman,” said Matta Zheng, MDiv candidate. Zheng called Kleinman “a personal intellectual hero” who helped inspire his path, with long-term plans to attend medical school and eventually meld the spiritual with biomedical healing.
Morgan Curtis, MTS '23, in black and white, looks at the camera

How Family History Can Inspire Accountable Reparations and Foster Ancestral Healing

March 6, 2023
On Monday, February 13, 2023, Harvard Divinity School hosted an event, featuring HDS Professor Dan McKanan, on legacies of slavery at HDS as seen through stories of the School’s founders and early students. Following the event, Morgan Curtis and Emily Chaudhari, MTS candidates, sat down together to talk about it.
Jude Ayua, MTS '24

Interpreting Stories of Enslavement in the New Testament

February 13, 2023
On Monday, January 30, 2023, Harvard Divinity School hosted an event on the presence of enslavement in early Christian stories. The event was the first in a series of six public online conversations titled Religion and the Legacies of Slavery, which aims to build on the work of the 2022 Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery report. Following the event, Jude Ayua and Emily Chaudhari, both Master of Theological Studies degree candidates at HDS, sat down together to talk about it.
Phillip Picardi, MRPL '22

Student Profile: Phillip Picardi, MRPL '22

November 3, 2022

"When you're reading our nation's leading newspapers, you'd think that white Christian evangelicalism is the most dominant religious force, and that is simply not true; we are a country of vastly different religious traditions. When publications only cover religion through a certain perspective, we allow them to own the narrative of what God is, or what religion is, writ large."... Read more about Student Profile: Phillip Picardi, MRPL '22

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