Tag: Stephanie Paulsell

  • Nation & World

    One way of putting it

    Harvard scholars offer their picks for the word that sums up 2023

    6 minutes
    Conceptual illustration of people pointing to different dictionary entries.
  • Nation & World

    Bacow tells seniors COVID-19 brought losses, but also growth

    President Larry Bacow offered poignant reflections during the Baccalaureate Service honoring the Harvard College Class of 2021.

    4 minutes
    Class Day
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    Matthew Potts named Pusey Minister at Memorial Church

    Matthew Ichihashi Potts, a professor of religious studies and literature, an Episcopal priest, and an active member of the Harvard community, has been named Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, effective July 1.

    6 minutes
    Matthew Potts.
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    College names new faculty deans for five Houses

    Faculty deans have been appointed to Cabot, Quincy, Winthrop, Eliot, and Kirkland Houses, effective July 1.

    10 minutes
    Quincy House.
  • Nation & World

    The gathering of the first-years

    Harvard College’s Class of 2023 assembled for convocation under threatening skies. Harvard President Larry Bacow urged the students to avoid stepping-stones and embrace the unexpected.

    6 minutes
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    Paulsell named interim Pusey Minister

    Harvard President Larry Bacow announced the appointment of Harvard Divinity School Professor Stephanie Paulsell as interim Pusey Minister at the Memorial Church.

    5 minutes
    Stephanie Paulsell inside Memorial Church.
  • Nation & World

    Executive education with a soul

    For the second year in a row, Harvard Divinity School offers an executive course that draws on history and religious traditions around the world to help participants become agents of change.

    5 minutes
    Two women speaking to each other
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    Religious relevance found in works of a dedicated atheist

    Scholar Stephanie Paulsell discusses her forthcoming book, “Religion around Virginia Woolf,” in which she explores religious elements in the work of one of literature’s most noted atheists.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Pain, joy, and wisdom

    Four Harvard professors engage students in a weekly dialogue that looks at wisdom as it relates to how we experience the world, and the strategies we need to have a moral life amid uncertainty. 

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Bursts of thought

    Twelve professors delivered short lectures on research or teaching in an event sponsored by the Harvard Graduate Student Government.

    3 minutes
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    Deep devotion, explored

    Harvard Divinity School’s annual convocation included an address by Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies Stephanie Paulsell, who explored the theme of devotion in the texts of the Bible’s “Song of Songs,” and in the work of author Virginia Woolf.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Good, but never simple

    Delivering Harvard Divinity School’s Ingersoll Lecture at Sanders Theatre, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison discussed concepts of good and evil in her work and that of her contemporaries.

    5 minutes
    Toni Morrison.
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    The sacred Toni Morrison

    The Harvard Divinity School has organized a series of working groups to explore the religious dimensions of the work of author Toni Morrison in the lead-up to her Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality.

    4 minutes
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    Memorial Church search committee

    President Drew Faust has announced the appointment of a search advisory committee for the next minister of the Memorial Church.

    3 minutes
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    Lasting power

    Using personal narratives, several Harvard scholars recall experiences with their faiths with the help of objects in the Harvard Art Museums’ collections.

    4 minutes