Tag: David Lamberth

  • Nation & World

    In a country shadowed by death, God gets a pass. Why?

    Philosopher David Lamberth responds to Pew findings that most Americans don’t hold God responsible for the world’s suffering.

    6 minutes
    Oil painting of Job looking upward.
  • Nation & World

    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.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Renewing Harvard’s library system

    Setting a fresh course for the future of the Harvard library system, University leaders have embraced a series of recommendations from the Library Implementation Work Group to establish a coordinated management structure and increasingly focus resources on the opportunities presented by new information technology.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sit down, stay a while

    A new season of performances involving the Common Spaces Chairs Project kicked off with the chairs as the star.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Weiss to guide Library Implementation Work Group

    Deborah Jackson Weiss has been named senior project director for the Library Implementation Work Group. In that role, she will guide the panel putting in place the recommendations made last month by the Library Task Force.

    1 minute