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One Year of Pope Leo: Leadership, Legacy, and the Future of the Catholic Church

2

Meaning Makers of HDS: Inspiring Hopeful Climate Action

3

Spirituality and The Elephant 6 Collective With Robert Schneider

4

The Role of Faith in Social Movements: A Conversation with Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas

5

Hope Podcast: Featuring Amy Brenneman, MRPL Candidate

6

Hope Podcast: Featuring Leah Gawel, MDiv Candidate

7

Acting, Dreamwork, and the Study of Religion – A Talk with Amy Brenneman

8

Hope Podcast: Featuring Jamie Feinberg, MDiv Candidate

9

Hope Podcast: Featuring Julia Jackson, MDiv Candidate

10

Bulletin Long Read: Sacred Sleep of the Wandering Fool

11

Meaning Makers of HDS: The Sacred Work of Presence

12

From Rock Star to Occult Historian - A Talk with Gary Lachman

13

Hope Podcast: Featuring Hannah Snyder, MTS Candidate

14

Hope Podcast: Featuring Austin Ball, MDiv Candidate

15

Integrating Wisdom Christianity and ‘The Work’ of G.I. Gurdjieff: A Talk with Cynthia Bourgeault

16

Hope Podcast: Featuring Michelle Millben, MTS '26

17

Learning to Love Your Enemies: A Conversation with Rev. Matthew Potts

18

Hope Podcast: Featuring Rob Anderson, MDiv Candidate

19

Hope Podcast: Featuring Audrey Zhou, MDiv Candidate

20

Hope Podcast: Featuring Mishka Banuri, MTS Candidate

21

Mysticism and the Simulation Hypothesis – A Talk with Rizwan Virk

22

Hope Podcast: Featuring Lexi Potter, MDiv Candidate

23

A.I., Hip-Hop, and the Digital Uncanny – A Talk with Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky

24

Gnostic Myth in Film: A Talk with Fryderyk Kwiatkowski

25

Madness, Mysticism, and Philosophy – A Talk with Wouter Kusters

26

Hospital Chaplaincy: A Praxis Podcast featuring David Holden, MDiv '24

27

Hope Podcast: Featuring Becca Leviss and Rucha Modi, MTS Candidates

28

Hope Podcast: Featuring Matta Zheng, MDiv candidate

29

Photographing the Invisible – A Talk with Shannon Taggart

30

Hope Podcast: Featuring Paula Ortiz, MDiv Candidate

31

End of Life Care and Horror Scholarship: A Praxis Podcast featuring Kristen Maples, MDiv '24

32

Empire and Epistemicide: Historical Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Peace and its Erasures

33

Christian Nationalism in Global Perspective

34

Exploring Sectarian Identity in Islam

35

Hope Podcast: Featuring Marty Matinage, MDiv Candidate

36

Black Metal and Orthodox Christianity – A Talk with Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix of Liturgy

37

Hope Podcast: Featuring Ivy Wang, MDiv Candidate

38

Hope Podcast: Featuring Joyce Cheng, MTS Candidate

39

Ceramics and Surrender: A Praxis Podcast featuring Jack Tripp, MTS ’25

40

Bulletin Long Read: On Assignment, Virgil Rescues Dante from the Wilderness

41

Second Act Careers & Chaplaincy: A Praxis Podcast Episode featuring Rebecca Oreskes

42

Women, Art, and the Spirit World – A Talk With Jennifer Higgie, Author of The Other Side

43

The Importance of HBCUs in the Making of American Democracy

44

Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, and Difference

45

Religion and Democratic Ideals: Media, Religion, and the Nation

46

Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story

47

Harvard Divinity School 2024 Convocation

48

Eve’s Innocence: Women’s Biblical Exegesis in Renaissance Venice

49

Religion and Democratic Ideals: Political Futures

50

Religion and Democratic Ideals: Reproductive Healthcare Access and White Nationalism

51

Book Event: Zionism: An Emotional State by Derek Penslar

52

Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism

53

Celebrating Dhamma Chakra Day: Buddhism as Emancipation

54

Religion and Democratic Ideals: Rematriation, Land, and Healing

55

What it Takes to Manifest Compassion: A Talk with the Sabal Foundation

56

Interprofessional Palliative Care

57

Lost in the Mystery of God: Remembered Wisdom Before Retirement

58

Music and the Esoteric Imagination – A Talk with Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3

59

From Visual Storytelling to Historical Imagination: A Praxis Podcast featuring Marisol Andrade Muñoz

60

Hope Podcast: Featuring Taylon E. Lancaster, MDiv candidate

61

Hope Podcast: Featuring Eve Schwartz, MDiv Candidate

62

Religion, Technology, and Extraterrestrial Intelligences – A Talk with Diana Pasulka

63

Hope Podcast: Featuring Hiatt O'Connor, MDiv '26

64

Book Interview: Terrence L. Johnson Interviews Corey Brettschneider about Presidents and Democracy

65

The Intersection of Healing, Veteran Service, and Motherhood: A Praxis Podcast featuring Amy Sexauer

66

Hope Podcast: Featuring Jordan Ahmed, MDiv Candidate

67

Hope Podcast: Featuring Nicole Marie, MDiv Candidate

68

Pop Apocalypse: Dreams, Creativity, and Precognition–a Talk with Eric Wargo

69

On Being a Hindu Monastic: Personal Journeys

70

Black Religion and Mental Health Symposium Closing Keynote: Dr. Charmain Jackman

71

An Evening with Twinkie Clark

72

2024 Billings Preaching Prize Competition

73

Battle of Siffin: The Intrigues Against Imam Ali's Statebuilding Project

74

Peter J Gomes STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honors: Journeys of the Soul

75

Compassion in Action: Addressing Discrimination Through the Lens of Buddhist Teachings

76

Stendahl Symposium 2024: New Horizons, New Resistance

77

RCPI Spring 2024 Book Series: Stranger in My Own Land

78

The Passions of Aisha: Women, Trauma, and Jinn Possession in Morocco

79

Public Courage and the Academy:Beyond the Binaries: Depolarizing our Politics and Bridging Our World

80

Public Courage and the Academy:The Future of the Church and the Cosmopolitan Leaders Its Calling For

81

Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: Reflecting on Religion in Times of Earth Crisis

82

RCPI Spring 2024 Book Series: Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible

83

Yang Scholars 2024: Explorations in World Christianity

84

Ottoman Sufi Music Night

85

Meditation in Fractured Times

86

Becoming A New Saint: Exploring the Path of Emerging as Warriors from Our Broken Hearts

87

Hope Podcast: Featuring Keisha Bush, MTS '24

88

Hope Podcast: Featuring Swami Sachidananda

89

Hope Podcast: Featuring Jamail Khan, MTS '24

90

Psychedelics, California, and the Cultures of Consciousness: A Talk with Erik Davis

91

Hope Podcast: Featuring Michael Fuhrman, MDiv '25

92

Hope Podcast: Featuring Ahmaad Edmund, MDiv '24

93

Chaplaincy Across Fields: Nurturing Resilience and Compassion 031924

94

Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: The Practice of Wild Mercy: Something Deeper Than Hope

95

Black Religion and Mental Health Symposium Plenary II

96

Black Religion and Mental Health Symposium Plenary I

97

Black Religion and Mental Health Symposium Opening Keynote

98

More Babies and More Birth Control: American Jews and the Politics of Reproduction

99

Refuge in the Storm Webinar Series, Part III: Caring for Crisis Workers

100

Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: Apocalyptic Grief: Reckoning with Loss, Wrestling with Hope

101

Conversation with Dr. Luis Eduardo Luna about the Science and Philosophy of Plant Intelligence

102

Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: Animal Stories, in Crisis

103

The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance & End of Days Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel

104

Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: Ancestors and Climate in Our Boston Backyard

105

Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: A Procession of Catastrophes

106

RCPI Book Series: Decolonizing Religion and the Practice of Peace

107

Inside the Mind of a Spirit Channel – a Conversation with Paul Selig

108

Enheduanna: Voicing the Feminine Divine Presentation and Musical Performance

109

Peripheries Launch Event 2023

110

Psychedelics and the Future of Religion: Mescaline and Psychonauts with Mike Jay

111

LGBTQ+ Rights Under Attack - Session 2: Protecting Against Violence and Discrimination

112

Dr. Keith Edward Cantú, Like a Tree Universally Spread Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga

113

Psychedelics and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Meaning-Making in Psychedelia

114

Pop Apocalypse: Ecstatic Knowledge and the Study of Religion - Feat. Jeffrey J. Kripal

115

Refuge in the Storm Webinar Series Part II: Sickness, Aging, and Death: Caring for Life-Cycle Crises

116

"Wild Life" Film Screening and Discussion

117

Chimera Geographies: Black Spiritual Borderland Performances of the Caribbean

118

From Ms. Marvel to the Smithsonian: Teaching Religious Literacy through Arts and Popular Culture

119

Psychedelics and the Future of Religion: Race and Exoticism in Global Psychedelic Spirituality

120

Call, Respond, and Serve: The Role of Spirituality in Public Theology and Politics

121

Pop Apocalypse: Monsters, Fictional Worlds, and the Repressed Supernatural - Feat. Victoria Nelson

122

Dhamma Chakra Day: Buddhism and Emancipation of Marginalized Classes in India

123

Gnoseologies: Angela’s Symposium: YouTube, Esotericism, and the Academia

124

Illuminating the Empire: The Spanish Inquisition and the Spread of Global Heresy

125

"Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration"—A Conversation with Alejandra Oliva

126

Third Annual Transcendence and Transformation Presentations

127

Black Religion and Critical Theory Colloquium: Panel II

128

Black Religion and Critical Theory Colloquium: Panel I

129

CSWR List Lecture with Adam Afterman

130

WSRP 2023-24: Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, & Difference

131

Sacred Sabotage: Direct Action and Spiritual Practice Amidst Ecological Breakdown

132

Refuge in the Storm Webinar Series, Part I: Buddhist Approaches to Large-Scale and Community Crises

133

The Ziyārat of Imām al-Ḥusayn as Liturgical Text in Early Shī‘ī Ḥadīth

134

Pop Apocalypse: Aliens, Eros, and Life After Death - An Interview with Whitley Strieber

135

HDS Convocation 2023

136

Decolonial Dames of America: Book Launch & Reading

137

Pop Apocalypse: Psychedelic Gnosis and the Imaginal Double with Laurence Caruana

138

Pop Apocalypse: Waking from the Flesh Dream with Alex and Allyson Grey

139

"I am Your Sister": Audre Lorde in the Context of Black Feminist Activism and Ethics

140

The Islamic Conception of Arabness: A New Reading of the Qurʾānic Discourse on the aʿrāb

141

The Power of Mind: A talk with Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche

142

Bulletin Long Read: Following the Gaian Way

143

In the garden we sat weeping: A Poetry Reading with Suzannah Omonuk

144

Book Event: The Planet You Inherit

145

2023 Billings Preaching Prize Competition

146

Educator Webinar: Religious Literacy and Nurses' Stories in the Age of COVID and Anti-Asian Hate

147

Are Psychedelics Theologically Significant for Judaism?

148

Multiple Subjectivities & the Ethnographic Study of Lived Religion: Conversation with Fadeke Castor

149

Poetry Craft Talk and Reading with Tracy K. Smith

150

Harvard Divinity School 2023 Multireligious Commencement Service

151

World Christianity, Christianity in the West: Continuities and Differences

152

Harvard Divinity School 2023 Commencement Diploma Awarding Ceremony

153

Examining the Religious and Spiritual Implications of Climate Change

154

Liquid Light Book Discussion with Bill Barnard (Psychedelics & the Future of Religion Series)

155

New Voices in Poetry: Tawanda Mulalu, Isabel Duarte-Gray, and Jess Yuan

156

Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Group 3

157

Conjuring Nonbinary Futurities and Decolonizing Methodologies

158

The (Re)Imagination of Matter: Introducing the Codex Charles H. Long Papers Project

159

Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Regulation Panel

160

Dis/appearing: Black Life, Theodicy & the Study of Religion (Greeley Lecture)

161

Climate Justice as Racial Justice: Student Panel

162

Religious Literacy and Climate Justice

163

Reiki, Energy Medicine, and Post-Materialism

164

Applying to Doctoral Programs in Religion

165

Examining the Religious and Spiritual Implications of Climate Change

166

The Palestinian Question as a Jewish Question

167

Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Group Two

168

Faculty Focus: Charles Hallisey on the Beauty of the World and Buddhist Studies at Harvard

169

Judeopessimism: Antisemitism, History, and Critical Race Theory with Shaul Magid

170

Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Group One

171

William Belden Noble Lecture Series: Dekila Chungyalpa

172

The World of Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Europe

173

Faculty Focus: The Graciousness of the World and a Life Well Lived

174

Translation As Linguistical and Bodily Metamorphosis

175

Reflecting on Religion and the Legacies of Slavery

176

What Does It Mean to Awaken Our Dignity?

177

Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence and Roadblocks to Political Expression

178

Dancing Altars

179

Music, Voice, and Healing: A Conversation with Grace Nono

180

Slavers and Slavery: A Dialogue with Descendants

181

Displacement and Belonging in Israel/Palestine: Harvard Student Stories of Learning in Context

182

Leading Toward Justice: Intersections of Religion, Ethics, and Community Organizing

183

Faculty Focus: Monica Sanford on Multireligious Ministry for the Twenty-first Century

184

Memory, History, and the Ethics of Reparations

185

Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses

186

Wearing Divine Protection

187

Initiated by the Spirits with Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, PhD & Randy Chung Gonzales

188

What is “’Awra”?: Women, Gendered Space, and Islamic Law

189

HDS and Slavery: Family Stories

190

Religion, Race, and the Double Helix of White Supremacy

191

William James and the Sick Soul

192

Enslavement in the Formation of Earliest Christianity

193

BMI 10th Anniversary: Phillip Henderson

194

Release Party for Peripheries 2022

195

Meditation | “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” by Dolly Parton

196

From The Doctrine and Covenants 88: 2, 5–15 | From the Traditions of Latter-day Saints

197

"An afro is a halo.” Written by Suzannah Omonuk, MDiv III | From the African Diasporic Traditions

198

Benediction | David N. Hempton

199

The Qur’an, Surah Nur, Chapter 24, Verse 34–35 | From the Islamic Tradition

200

“The Coming of Light” by Mark Strand | From the Jewish Tradition

201

Excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoreau | From Those Who are Unaffiliated with Any Tradition

202

“Stone Soup,” Adapted by Lizzy Lincoln from a European folktale | From the Pagan Tradition

203

“Tov L’Hodot L’Hashem” | HDS Choir and Seasons of Light Band

204

Meditation | “Winter—The Hearth” by Ro Robinson, MDiv I

205

“La Ténèbre” by Jacques Berthier, Taizé Community | Congregational Song

206

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 1.3.28 (pavamāna abhyāroha)| From the Hindu Tradition

207

Satguru Nanak Pargateya | From the Sikh Tradition

208

ساري الليل (Stargazing in the Solstice)| Written and performed by Eilaf Farajalla, MTS II

209

“Dark Things” Serbian poem | From Those Who are Spiritual but not Religious

210

Sound Meditation | Joyous Noise, HDS’ Chanting Community

211

“The Eight Verses of Mind Training” by Langri Tangpa Dorje Senge | From the Buddhist Tradition

212

"Little Prayer" by Danez Smith | From the Traditions of Queer Spiritualities

213

“Born Again” by Lynn Ungar | From the Unitarian Universalist Tradition

214

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry | From Those Who Belong to Multiple Traditions

215

From the Writings of Caroline Fox and Isaac Penington | From the Religious Society of Friends

216

Isaiah 45: 7–8 and from the Writings of Victor Cadette | From the Christian Tradition

217

Closing Song | “I Love the Lord”| Performed by Aric Flemming, MDiv '19

218

Meditation | “Sweet Surrender”| Chris Berlin, HDS Choir, Seasons of Light Band

219

Prelude | “Three Stanzas of Plum Blossoms” | Tianyi Yuan, MDiv III

220

Meditation | “Solstice Carole” | Nicole Newell, HDS Choir

221

Christianity in Iraq: Challenges and Hopes

222

Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live

223

Spirituality, Mental Health, and Science

224

Art and Religion as Technology

225

The Varieties of Spiritual Experience

226

Faculty Focus: Crossing Religious Boundaries with Catholic Priest and Hindu Scholar Francis Clooney

227

Affect Theater and Collaborative Meaning-Making

228

BMI 10th Anniversary: Closing Remarks

229

BMI 10th Anniversary: Ven. Priya Rakkhit Sraman

230

BMI 10th Anniversary: Bhante Kusala

231

BMI 10th Anniversary: Maria Azhunova

232

BMI 10th Anniversary: Monica Sanford and Charles Hallisey

233

BMI 10th Anniversary: Nancy Chu

234

BMI 10th Anniversary: Harrison Blum

235

Bears Ears is Listening: We Are Still Here and the Land is Calling Us Back

236

Faculty Focus: Mayra Rivera on Transforming the Way We See the World

237

Illuminations Launch Party

238

The Runaway Goddess: Sacred Waters in an Era of Climate Apocalypse

239

Gnoseologies: Black Tarot: African American Women and Divine Processes of Resilience

240

The Impact of God is Red on Native American Rights and Native American Religion

241

The Impact of God is Red in the Future

242

Another Israeli Election: Assessing Trends of Israeli and Jewish Politics

243

The Impact of God is Red on Studies of Religion, Land, and the Environment

244

The Impact of God is Red on Religious Studies

245

The Impact of God is Red on Theology

246

The Pope Against Nuremberg: Nazi War Crime Trials, the Vatican, and the Question of Postwar Justice

247

Faculty Focus: Teddy Hickman-Maynard on Preparing Future Leaders Who Seek Peace and Justice

248

Leading Towards Justice: Intersections of Religion, Ethics, and Government

249

Teaching and Learning about Sikhism with Simran Jeet Singh

250

Transcendence and Transformation, Take Two

251

Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, & Difference—Women's Studies in Religion Panel 2022

252

Faculty Focus: Charles Stang on Why 'Dune' Makes for Good Academic Inquiry

253

Earth Bound: Welcoming a New Artwork by Ramona Peters

254

HDS 2022 Convocation: "Legacies of Slavery: Bondage and Resistance"

255

Univitalism and American Law

256

Expressions of Sumoud in Palestinian Higher Education

257

Yom Ha’atzmaut and the Colonization of American Judaism

258

Psychedelics, Spirituality, and a Culture of Seekership

259

HDS Reorientation and Common Conversation Closing Session

260

Author Discussion: "We God's People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations"

261

2022 Billings Preaching Prize Competition

262

Set it Off Symposium

263

Islamic Self-Help, Gendered Anxieties, and Racial Capitalism in Singapore

264

Leading Toward Justice: Intersections of Religion, Ethics, and Journalism

265

Signs of Your True Voice: First Words, Breakthroughs, Trust, and Transformation

266

Annual Stendahl Symposium

267

Techgnosis Today

268

Decolonize Now: A Conversation about Radical Imagination and Justice in Israel/Palestine

269

Walking Through the Twilight: A Visual Exploration of Contemporary Jewish Anti-Occupation Activism

270

Your First Heart is Not in Your Chest: An African Indigenous Interrogation of the ‘Divine Feminine’

271

Healing from Extremism: How Community Members Can Help Loved Ones Exit Hate

272

Ways of Knowing through the Changing Landscapes of Esoteric Art

273

A Home for the Human Spirit: Cultural Activism and the Moral Imagination in the Inherit Art Project

274

Paranthropology: The Anthropology of the Paranormal

275

To Eat Alone Is to Die Alone: A Voyage into the Lives of Seeds and Their Communities

276

Words Surviving Siege and War: Poems from Gaza

277

Assessing Domestic US Religious Politics’ Impact on Foreign Policy

278

The Troubled Everyday in/of Gaza: Restoring Agency and Creative Possibility

279

The Writing of Wisdom: Divine Sophia in Russia

280

Weather Reports: The Climate of the Future

281

Putin's Unholy War

282

Leading Toward Justice: Intersections of Religion, Ethics, and Humanitarian Action

283

Breaking Walls: Historical and Contemporary Mizrahi Feminist Struggles for Israel/Palestine Housing

284

Divining the Feminine in Tibet: Saga & Sādhana of Yeshe Tsogyal

285

Accidental Deification: A Conversation with Anna Della Subin

286

Gut and Other Knowledges in Religions of the African Diaspora

287

Peril to Democracy: Racism and Nationalism in America

288

Shared Resistance and Solidarity: A (Re)Newed Paradigm

289

Safe, Sacred, Free: Queer Movements and Religious Spaces

290

Negation, Not-knowing, and the Dark in Brazilian and Cuban Creole Forms of Religion

291

When Boston Banned Christmas

292

The Climate of Consciousness

293

The Climate of Grief

294

The Climate of Compassion for all Beings

295

The Climate of Relationships and Intersectionality

296

The Climate of Sacred Land Protection

297

A Burning Testament to Climate Collapse

298

Fantastic Faiths and What We Can Learn From Them

299

Divinity Dialogues | Gomes Honoree President Emerita Faust in Conversation with Dean Hempton

300

Divinity Dialogues | Robin Coste Lewis on Epic Poetry and the Sacredness of Female Deities

301

Divinity Dialogues | Dr. Omar Sultan Haque on Medicine, Metaphysics, and Moral Pluralism

302

Divinity Dialogues | Lama Rod Owens on Love, Rage, and Freedom

303

Divinity Dialogues | Investigative Journalist Joshua Eaton on the 'Hot Take Industrial Complex'

304

How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others

305

Author Discussion with Todne Thomas: Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality

306

The Hindu Margins: Third Gender and Women Spiritual Partners

307

Finding Beauty in a Broken World

308

Religion in the Time of Pandemic

309

What is Psychedelic Chaplaincy?

310

What Black History Month in 2021 Means for a Rising Spiritual and Ethical Movement

311

Making Meaning in 2021 at the Crossroads of Business and Capitalism, Ethics, Faith, and Justice

312

Psychedelics: The Ancient Religion with No Name?

313

How Joe Biden’s Faith Will Shape His Presidency

314

“Adoro te devote,” 13th-century Benedictine plainsong | Meditation

315

“Light of a Clear Blue Morning” by Dolly Parton

316

Benediction | Mark D. Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity

317

“Grateful” by Hezekiah Walker | Closing Music

318

Communal Invocation | Adapted from the poetry of Hafiz

319

“Poem of Perfect Miracles,” by Walt Whitman | From the Traditions of Queer Spiritualities

320

Hine ma tov, a round from the Jewish tradition | Meditation

321

"Regla de Ocha-Ifá," an AfroCuban Spiritual Tradition | From Traditions of the Afrikan* Diaspora

322

Isaiah 60: 1-4; 18-20 | From the Tradition of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

323

The Qur’an, Surah Nur, Chapter 24, Verse 34–35 | From the Islamic Tradition

324

Five Prayers: A Pageant of Formative Sounds and Souls | Meditation

325

2 Corinthians 4:6-18 | From the Christian Tradition

326

Malini Srikrishna, MTS II | From the Hindu Tradition

327

Welcome | Kerry A. Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life

328

“Holy Darkness” by Dan Schutte | Shining, in the Gathering Light

329

“In Praise of Fire” by John O’Donohue | From Those Who are Claimed by Multiple Belongings

330

"A Winter Solstice Blessing" | From the Pagan Tradition

331

“Dark and Light” by Jacqui James | From the Unitarian Universalist Tradition

332

“Rainbow” by Kacey Musgraves | Meditation

333

Attadiipaa Sutta (A Lamp to Oneself) | From the Buddhist Tradition

334

“The Light of the Spirit Never Dies” by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | From the Jewish Tradition

335

"Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan | From Those Who are Unaffiliated

336

Prelude | Adagio by Franz Josef Haydn | Christopher Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual

337

“Vajra Mantra” by Satigata | Kindling the Light

338

Jarena Lee as Protestant Icon: A Conversation with Nyasha Junior and Catherine Brekus

339

Taurean Webb

340

Sapir Sluzker Amran

341

Vivien Sansour

342

Brant Rosen

343

Mati Milstein

344

Rana Khoury

345

Fady Khoury

346

Noura Erekat

347

Oriel Eisner

348

Salem Al Qudwa

349

Spirits of Whiteness in the Age of COVID-19

350

The Campaign for (White) Christian America: Lauren R. Kerby in Conversation with Jeff Sharlet

351

Psilocybin & Mystical Experience: Implications for Healthy Psychological Functioning & Spirituality

352

Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, and Difference

353

White Supremacy in the Study and Practice Of Ministry

354

2020 Convocation: George and Jesus: Policing an Insurrection of Hope

355

Going Beyond the Textbook: John Camardella

356

Religious Literacy for Social Justice: Greg Khalil

357

Gathering Historias: Wendy Estrada

358

Religion for a New Generation

359

Noon Service hosted by the HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship

360

Vedanta for the 21st Century

361

The Intelligence Revolution and the New Attention Economy: An Ethical Singularity

362

Becoming the Beloved Community in the Midst of Domestic Terror

363

Forms of Grief

364

Author Discussion: Religion Around Virginia Woolf

365

Theological Education Day 2019: Planning Your Future—Admissions and Financial Aid

366

Imagining Judeo-Christian America—Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy

367

Making Babies: Childbirth and Ceramic Production in the Hebrew Bible and Israelite Religion

368

All the Time in the World: An Artist’s Awakening with Ayahuasca

369

Jerusalem: City of the Book

370

We Have Always Been Animists

371

Theological Education Day 2019: What is Community Life Like at HDS?

372

Theological Education Day 2019: Ministry at HDS—What You Don’t Know Might Surprise You

373

Theological Education Day 2019: Introduction to the MTS, MDiv, ThM, SS, and PhD Curricula

374

Theological Education Day 2019: Welcome

375

On Being a Hindu Monastic: Personal Journeys

376

Bureaucratic Islam and the Romance Industry in Southeast Asia

377

Anne E. Monius Memorial Service

378

Death in Transit: Cremation, Spectacle, and Looking Off-center

379

Ardencies: St. Hildegard's Blazing Plants

380

Gurus, Women, and Yoga: The Spiritual World of Hindu Universalism

381

Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice

382

Toni Morrison Stories: Goodness and Mercy and Mexico

383

Mainstream Meditation and the Million-Dollar Mindfulness Boom

384

Divinity Dialogues: 2019 Gomes Honorees

385

The Song Within Thinking Outwardly: Navajo Thought and Poetry

386

Concordance: An Evening with Susan Howe

387

Lived Religion and Spirituality in 2019

388

Why Hate Crimes Are on the Rise

389

Gross National Happiness Conference Wrap-Up

390

Gross National Happiness Conference Panel Three: Scaling Happiness and Health

391

Gross National Happiness Conference Panel Two: The Happiness Movement

392

Gross National Happiness Conference: Keynote Address

393

Gross National Happiness Conference Panel One: How do you govern for Happiness?

394

RPP Colloquium: Indigenous Guardianship, Nature, and Peace: Holistic Being and Living

395

The Land and the Waters are Speaking: Indigenous Views on Climate Change

396

The Kingdom of Holy Women: Pentecostalism, Sex and Women’s Bodies in an African Church

397

All One Stuff: Emerson’s Materialism

398

Buddhism and Race Conference 2019 Panel Two: Buddhism, Race, and Multiple Religious Belongings

399

Promoting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals: Women's Leadership, Religion, and Scholarship

400

The Case Against Buddhism: A Conversation between Glenn Wallis and Charles Hallisey

401

BRSC Panel Three: Revolutionary Art

402

BRSC Panel Two: Contested Lives

403

BRSC Panel One: Black Panther, Diaspora, and Queering of the Black Imaginary

404

Buddhism and Race Conference 2019 Panel One: Buddhism, Race, and Gender

405

Faith and Faustian Bargains: Compromise, Complicity, and Courage in Leadership

406

The Business of Spirituality: On Money, Branding, and Other Taboos

407

Subversive Politics: Climate Change, Collective Ethics, and Justice in Northern Peru

408

The Role of Reconciliation, Memory, and Theology in Shaping the Public Stage

409

Bioethics on the Margins: Vulnerable Populations and Health Outcomes

410

Reparations for Slavery: The Role of Repentance in Politics

411

RPP Colloquium Feb 2019: Indigenous Perspectives on Peacemaking in the Face of Racism

412

RPP Colloquium: Natural “SuperCooperation” and the Future of Our Human Family

413

Veiled Women Unveiling God: Understanding the Qur’an Through Its Women Characters

414

Sound Education Conference 2018 Panel 1: Audience Growth

415

Radically Happy: Meditation and Mindfulness Based in Ancient Wisdom

416

Sound Education Conference 2018 Welcome and Keynote 1

417

Dudleian Lecture: Kristallnacht 1938: Crescendo and Overture

418

Diversity and Explorations 2018: Keynote by Jacob Olupona

419

Theological Education Day 2018: Planning Your Future—Admissions and Financial Aid

420

Theological Education Day 2018: What is Community Life Like at HDS?

421

Theological Education Day 2018: Ministry at HDS—What You Don’t Know Might Surprise You

422

Theological Education Day 2018: Introduction to the MTS, MDiv, ThM, SS, and PhD Curricula

423

Theological Education Day 2018: Welcome

424

Sound Education Conference 2018 Panel 4: Audio Teaching Strategies for History Podcasts

425

Sound Education Conference Panel 3: Sound Design and Music for Educational Audio

426

Sound Education Conference 2018 Panel 2: Lessons from Radiolab

427

Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Gender, Authorship, and the Visionary Text

428

For Trump's Evangelicals, the Inconvenient Teachings of Christ

429

Author Discussion: Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam

430

Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World

431

Taproot: Stories of Nature and Restoration

432

The Public Practice of the Abrahamic Religions

433

Rethinking Malaria: The Role of Faith & Community in Saving Lives

434

Innovative Ministry with Cornelia Holden, MDiv ’03

435

Building Bridges: Refugee, Asylum & Immigration Advocacy at Harvard

436

Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual, Gender, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China

437

On Exile and Elsewhere: André Aciman in Conversation with Benjamin Balint

438

Integrating Islamic Studies Within Religious Studies

439

The Future of the Study of Abrahamic Traditions

440

The Qur’an and Scriptural Studies

441

The Comparative Study of the Abrahamic Religions: Heuristic Gains and Cognitive Pitfalls

442

Religious Literacy and Business: Media & Entertainment Symposium Keynote

443

Making Audiences: How What We Watch Shapes Who We Are

444

Entertaining Religion: Themes, People, and Plots in Entertainment Media

445

From Script to Screen: How Content is Made and Why It Matters

446

Saving Stories: Religious Literacy as Social Responsibility

447

Hindu View of Life: Speaking For and Against Oneself

448

Writing and the Art of Attention

449

New Intellectual Connections

450

Jihadi Ideology: What is New, What is Not?

451

Re-evalutating the Historic Core Curriculum

452

Prayers, Invocations, and the Talismanic Tradition

453

Role of Sufi Orders in Maintaining Spiritual and Intellectual Links

454

Ousmane Kane's Keynote: The Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa

455

Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, and Difference

456

Cultivating Resilience in Chaplaincy: Keynote

457

Ritual Apparitions and a Buddhist Theory of Film

458

2018 Diploma Awarding Ceremony at Harvard Divinity School

459

RPP Colloquium w/ Ben Ferencz: Ethics, Law & Policy in Promoting a New Internat'l Security Paradigm

460

Cultivating Resilience in Chaplaincy: An Interview

461

#sayhername: Recovering Zilpha Elaw’s Rebellious Evangelicalism

462

Making Disciples: Women, Missions, and Colonial Education in the Early 20th-Century Philippines

463

2018 Billings Prize Finals

464

The Liturgy of Home: Terry Tempest Williams

465

Divinity Dialogues: 2018 Gomes Honorees

466

Arvo Pärt's White Light: A Panel and Performance

467

Carry Me (Tara Refuge) by Satigata

468

RPP Colloquium: Ministry to the Marginal: The Power of Partnerships

469

The End of White Christian America: A Conversation with E.J. Dionne and Robert P. Jones

470

Dharma Gaze: Practices of Buddhism and Poetry—An Evening with Anne Waldman

471

RPP Colloquium: Why Nonviolent Civil Resistance Works

472

Claiming God's Peace When Whiteness Stands Its Ground

473

RPP Colloquium: The Church as a Reconciling Presence in a World of Conflict

474

Religious Literacy and Government Symposium: Panel on Middle Tennessee

475

Religious Literacy and Government Symposium: Wrap-up Panel and Closing Remarks

476

Religious Literacy and Government Symposium: Panel on the Greater Boston Area

477

Religious Literacy and Government Symposium: Panel on the Arizona-Mexico Border

478

Religious Literacy and Government Symposium: Keynote Address by Shaun Casey, MDiv ’83, ThD ’98

479

James Luther Adams in Unitarian Universalist History

480

E.J. Dionne: Fighting for Justice with an Open Heart

481

FBI and Religion Scholars: Reflecting on the Past 25 Years

482

South Asian Religions Colloquium (SARC): James Mallinson

483

Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy: Toward an Ecological Ethics for the Anthropocene

484

Enclosed Gardens Revealed: The Concept of Virginity in Medieval Jewish Culture

485

Diversity and Explorations 2017: Keynote by Davíd Carrasco

486

Fighting for Justice with an Open Heart: Conviction, Empathy, and the Niebuhrian Imperative

487

Look Inside, Walk Outside: How to Develop Inner Peace While Living in the Modern World

488

Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas—Faculty Book Event

489

Journeys: Bridging the Us/Them Divide in the Global Refugee Crisis

490

Current Challenges and Opportunities of Building a Shared Society in Israel

491

Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration Panel One

492

Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration Panel Four

493

Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration Panel Three

494

Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration Keynote Address

495

Divinity Dialogues: Public Voice and Charlottesville

496

Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings—Faculty Book Event

497

RPP Colloquium: The Restorative Justice Approach

498

Reformation and Racial Taxonomies: An Underexplored Narrative of Modernity

499

The Ear of the Heart: Silence, Listening, and the Monastery

500

Thoreau Bicentennial: Celebrating Henry David’s 200th Birthday at HDS

501

Barren Landscapes and Open Spaces

502

The Reformation Era and the Unintended Secularization of Western Society