Tag: Harvard Divinity School
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Nation & World
One way of putting it
Harvard scholars offer their picks for the word that sums up 2023
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Campus & Community
Marla Frederick named next dean of Harvard Divinity School
Marla Frederick, a leading ethnographer and scholar focused on the African American religious experience, will become dean of Harvard Divinity School on Jan. 1, President Claudine Gay announced Thursday.
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Campus & Community
Love of grandmother’s garden blossoms into climate justice activism
Aliyah Collins’ nonprofit aims to help students of historically Black colleges and universities to make spiritual connections with nature, launch conversations about environmental equity.
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Arts & Culture
Turning climate crisis stories into narrative of the future, changed but still beautiful
Rebecca Solnit offers new view of remaking the world, turning climate crisis stories into narrative of the future, changed but still beautiful.
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Health
‘Why is God doing this to me?’
Inspired by recent study, Harvard Divinity School panelists explore the spiritual side of health care.
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Campus & Community
Hempton to step down as Divinity School dean
David N. Hempton will step down as dean of the Divinity School at the end of the 2022–23 academic year. He will remain on the faculty of the School, where he will resume his career as a dedicated teacher and writer.
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Nation & World
Gift given, one left behind
Holocaust historian Gerald J. Steinacher gave the talk “The Pope against Nuremberg: Nazi War Crime Trials, the Vatican, and the Question of Postwar Justice” on Thursday at Harvard Divinity School.
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Campus & Community
Because past is not even past
Harvard Radcliffe Institute dean details importance of Legacy of Slavery project.
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Nation & World
At Div School, centuries-old Aztec language speaks to the present
An informal group of Harvard students study Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs that has been spoken in central Mexico since the seventh century.
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Science & Tech
Anthropologist describes supernatural adventures
Studying the paranormal can contribute to anthropology, says Jack Hunter in Harvard talk.
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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.
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Science & Tech
Elizabeth Kolbert sees a world depleted, and possibly defeated, by climate change
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert and Planetary Health Alliance Director Samuel Myers discussed whether humans can save the Earth during a “Weather Reports” panel hosted by the Harvard Divinity School.
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Nation & World
Chance of sun in Michael Pollan’s climate forecast
Michael Pollan says odds of saving the planet aren’t great but people can change their behavior, sometimes rapidly.
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Campus & Community
Renewal of building reflects evolution of Divinity School
With the renovation of Swartz Hall, Harvard Divinity School can offer multifaith space, improved accessibility, and updated classroom technology.
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Arts & Culture
Wonderland reimagined
Virtually Oberon features Queer Bodies in Motion’s first artistic endeavor, “Alice in Rainbowland.”
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Arts & Culture
A poem for Venus
In her poem “The Story of Venus,” Suzannah Omonuk imagines what life may have been like for the young enslaved woman living on campus in the 18th century.
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Arts & Culture
Voices raised in glee
Glee clubs from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton mesh online in song to celebrate diversity and fellowship.
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Nation & World
Pope may support same-sex unions, but that doesn’t mean the Vatican does
On Wednesday, Pope Francis’ support for the creation of same-sex civil union laws sent shockwaves through the Catholic Church. The comments, made in the recently released documentary “Francesco,” represent a major break with official church teaching and left many wondering if a change in papal doctrine might be on the horizon.
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Campus & Community
Where religion and public life meet
A new degree program, Master in Religion and Public Life, will welcome its first class in the fall of 2021. The Religion and Public Life initiative kicked off this fall.
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Nation & World
Hope in darkness
Rev. Mel Kawakami brought his experience in supporting those dealing with tragedy to Sandy Hook, Connecticut, just when they needed it most.
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Campus & Community
Preparing grad and professional Schools for remote fall
We look at how the different graduate Schools are handling online learning in the fall.
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Work & Economy
Opening health care access to trans community
Soltan Bryce, an M.B.A. student and trans man, leads the growth of a digital startup that’s bringing much-needed health care to the historically neglected trans community.
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Nation & World
Faith in the ballot
How white evangelicals tour the nation’s capital and redeem a Christian America.
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Arts & Culture
‘Gathering Historias’ at the Arboretum
Harvard Divinity School student Steven Salido Fisher’s project, “Gathering Historias,” is documenting Hispanic community’s experiences with nature including the historic green space of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
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Nation & World
Leap of faith
Hannah Stohler is executive director of Marguerite’s Place, a transitional living program for women & children in crisis in Nashua, New Hampshire. Previously, she held roles in leadership and programming at nonprofit organizations serving survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
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Campus & Community
‘My need to serve — that itch that I had — wasn’t being scratched’
Salvador Peña has spent the past three years at Harvard Divinity School earning his master of divinity degree and satisfying that itch to serve others.
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Campus & Community
Blessings from afar
How Harvard is observing Easter and Passover in the age of coronavirus.
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Health
From a care of souls to the care of bodies
Kevin Cranston discusses the critical and continuing need for adequate testing and about how data helps inform policy and procedures during a pandemic.