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Turning Debris into Haute Couture

May 2, 2023
Gosia Sklodowska, associate director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, modeled a skirt of plastic and bubble wrap during the "Marine Debris Fashion Show" at Harvard's 2023 Arts First Festival. Her outfit was created by HDS student Ellen Vaillancourt, who collected materials beachcombing in Revere and Winthrop.
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit joined HDS Writer-in-Residence Terry Tempest Williams in a conversation on the power of storytelling as it relates to climate change. Photo: Caroline Cataldo

Video: Stories Are Cages, Stories Are Wings—So What Stories Do We Tell About Climate?

April 27, 2023

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit joins HDS Writer-in-Residence Terry Tempest Williams in a conversation on the power of storytelling as it relates to climate change. This event took place April 12, 2023, in Memorial Church at Harvard University as part of Harvard Divinity School's Climate Justice Week.... Read more about Video: Stories Are Cages, Stories Are Wings—So What Stories Do We Tell About Climate?

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Turning Climate Crisis Stories into Narrative of the Future, Changed but Still Beautiful

April 17, 2023
“We don’t know how to get there, but we know to take the next step and the next step,”  writer and activist Rebecca Solnit said during HDS's Climate Justice Week, quoting E.L. Doctorow’s description of writing as an apt analogy: “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
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Sustainability Efforts at Harvard Divinity’s Swartz Hall Recognized with LEED Platinum Status

April 10, 2023

At the intersection of where new meets old, and style meets sustainability, you will find Harvard Divinity School’s recently renovated main campus building—Swartz Hall. The elegant addition bridges the space between the original, century-old chapel and the new student classrooms and event space in a way that is at once modern and traditional.... Read more about Sustainability Efforts at Harvard Divinity’s Swartz Hall Recognized with LEED Platinum Status

Anna Del Castillo, MDiv ’21, climate researcher at HDS's Religion and Public Life/ Courtesy photo

With Climate Justice Week, Anna Del Castillo, MDiv ’21, Brings Hope Into Grief

April 4, 2023

“I remember after a busy day of DivEx programming, I sat on the steps of Swartz Hall, feeling the sun on skin and just hearing this whisper from the Divine saying, ‘You belong here; here is a place that you will grow and get to know me better.’ And so I was just like, ‘Okay. I’m applying to Harvard Divinity School. This will be a place that will further my aspirations to do healing justice work.'”

As the daughter of a United Methodist preacher and Peruvian-Bolivian immigrant, Anna Del Castillo, MDiv ’21, grew up in a cultural fusion in Mississippi. Her spiritually rich upbringing, she says, set her trajectory toward continued change and activism.... Read more about With Climate Justice Week, Anna Del Castillo, MDiv ’21, Brings Hope Into Grief

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I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake

March 25, 2023
"I have known Great Salt Lake in flood and now in drought, between her highest level, at 4,211.8 feet in 1987, and her lowest, at 4,188.5 feet in 2022. Maps and newspapers call her the Great Salt Lake, but to me, she’s Great Salt Lake," writes Terry Tempest Wililams, HDS writer in residence.

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