Tag: Dan McKanan

  • Arts & Culture

    Spirituality, social justice, and climate change meet at the crossroads

    Dan McKanan of Harvard Divinity School discusses the ways in which spirituality interacts with climate change and how religious organizations have ensured environmentalism includes social justice.

    6–9 minutes
    Watercolor of Earth.
  • Nation & World

    The costs of inequality: When a fair shake isn’t

    Inequality is rampant in American life and is a key topic in the presidential campaign, but Harvard faculty members have been exploring its many facets for decades, and suggesting some solutions.

    14–21 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Faith in social justice

    In response to a new report from the Brookings Institution that contends that “religious voices will remain indispensable to movements on behalf of the poor, the marginalized, and middle-class Americans,” Harvard Divinity School’s Dan McKanan shared his insight.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    When religion turned inward

    A groundbreaking speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson at Harvard Divinity School in 1838 helped to transform faith, spur the transcendentalist movement, and change the future of Harvard.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    HDS and the Civil War scholar

    Harvard President Drew Faust served as guest lecturer for a Harvard Divinity School class, where she discussed her most recent book.

    2–4 minutes