Driving the Public Conversation on Religion

JUST WEEKS AFTER STANDING ARM IN ARM WITH CLERGY MEMBERS DEMONSTRATING AGAINST WHITE NATIONALISM IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, HDS PROFESSOR CORNEL WEST SPEAKS ON CONFRONTING HATE AT THE SCHOOL’S ANNUAL CONVOCATION.

DEAN DAVID N. HEMPTON, PROFESSOR DAVÍD CARRASCO, AND OTHER LEADING HARVARD SCHOLARS TRAVEL TO MEXICO TO INAUGURATE THE EDUARDO MATOS MOCTEZUMA LECTURE SERIES, A FIVE-YEAR COLLABORATION BETWEEN MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND HARVARD.

DRAWING ON LESSONS FROM THEOLOGIAN REINHOLD NIEBUHR, REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., AND OTHERS, VISITING PROFESSOR AND JOURNALIST E.J. DIONNE URGES LISTENERS TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE WHILE THEY ALSO CULTIVATE GENUINE UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY FOR THOSE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM.

WITH A KEYNOTE ADDRESS FROM SHAUN CASEY, MDIV ’83, THD ’98, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE’S OFFICE OF RELIGION AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS, THE RELIGIOUS LITERACY PROJECT HOLDS A SYMPOSIUM THAT EXPLORES THE COMPLICATED ROLES RELIGIONS PLAY IN THE NATION’S DEBATE OVER IMMIGRATION.

THE REV. KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS, DEAN OF EPISCOPAL DIVINITY SCHOOL AT UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, DELIVERS THE ANNUAL GREELEY LECTURE FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EXAMINES THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF WHITENESS AS AN IMPEDIMENT TO LIVING GOD’S JUSTICE.

IN CONVERSATION WITH JOURNALIST AND VISITING PROFESSOR E.J. DIONNE, ROBERT P. JONES, CEO OF THE PUBLIC RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE, EXPLAINS THE DRAMATIC SHIFT IN DEMOGRAPHICS THAT HERALD THE END OF THE UNITED STATES AS A MAJORITY WHITE CHRISTIAN NATION.

DELIVERING THE ANNUAL INGERSOLL LECTURE ON IMMORTALITY, ENVIRONMENTALIST, ACTIVIST, AUTHOR, AND HDS WRITER-IN- RESIDENCE TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS SPEAKS ON THE ESSENTIAL GESTURES AND SACRED ACTIONS THAT LEAD TO A CHANGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONSEQUENCE.

AT A COLLOQUIUM HOSTED BY THE RELIGIONS AND THE PRACTICE OF PEACE INITIATIVE, BENJAMIN B. FERENCZ, JD ’43 HLS, FORMER UNITED STATES PROSECUTOR AT THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL AT NUREMBERG, SPEAKS ON THE ROLE OF LAW, POLICY, AND ETHICS IN SUSTAINING PEACE AND HOW THE UNITED NATIONS CAN FORGE A MORE COHERENT VISION OF THIS NEW PARADIGM.