Religion
Faith at Harvard Student Panel
Faith at Harvard Student Panel at the Harvard Hillel. Students from various faiths talk about their experiences with religion since coming to college.
Student Letter Criticizes Marty Peretz
In response to what student groups considered “racist” and “disturbing” anti-Muslim remarks made by former Harvard professor Martin “Marty” H. Peretz, five student support groups joined to send an open letter to senior administrators in the Committee of Degrees in Social Studies, encouraging the committee not to honor Peretz at its fiftieth-year anniversary celebration.
rosh hashanah-eid event
Students of all different houses enjoy traditional Jewish and Muslim desserts, like honey cakes, traditional South Asian desserts, and baklava, to celebrate Rosh Hashana and Eid holidays in a joint event in the Eliot House JCR yesterday evening.
POSTCARD: Priestly Lessons
I’d been dreaming of swimming through a vast black sea, and in the morning my bed was an island.
POSTCARD: To the Anti-Burqa Taxi Driver
It seems as though it isn’t the “subjugation” of these burqa-wearing women that you really care about—it’s their difference, their “otherness.”
GOD IS NOT ONE RELIGION
Religion scholar and bestselling author Stephen Prothero speaks at the Harvard Book Store last night about his new book “God Is Not One” in which he seeks to demonstrate how differences in paths leading to the same destination can enrich, not prevent, dialogue and cooperation.
Goldstein Opens Up Religious Discussion in ‘36 Arguments’
“36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction” doesn’t settle any of the questions it raises, but it certainly edifies, entertains, and provokes.
Consuming Religion
Taylor Lewis Guthrie and Tiffany L. Stanley, HDS '10 facilitate a discussion about faith and religion in the context of today's youth at the Women's Center.
Evangelist Panel Discusses Religion in Politics
At an IOP panel discussion yesterday, several evangelists discussed their religious traditions and questions that arose after the financial crisis.
Openly Gay Harvard Alum Named Clergy-in-Charge of Ky. Church
“All are welcome. We are not fancy. We especially welcome sinners,” proclaims the Web site of St. Martha’s Episcopal Church in Lexington, Ky., where the Reverend Timothy R. Fleck ’86 was made Clergy-in-Charge.
