Religion
Students Share Passover Rituals
While Passover is not an official University holiday, Jewish students around campus celebrated the first night of the holy festival with their own seders yesterday.
Najjar Pushes For Cooperation
Former Justice Minister of Lebanon Ibrahim Najjar said that the heavy influence of religious ideals in his country makes it difficult to craft secular laws that simultaneously satisfy both Muslims and Christians, in a lecture at Harvard Law School yesterday.
Memorial Service Held for Gomes
With Memorial Church’s pews filled to capacity, dignitaries and University leaders paid tribute to the late Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes.
Gomes Memorial Service at 11 a.m. Tomorrow
The University will hold a memorial service honoring the life of the late Reverend Peter J. Gomes at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. Gomes—who served as the church's minister and the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals for the past 35 years—died late February.
Religious Speakers Draw Ire, Protests
The controversial Social Transformation Conference—aimed at promoting “faith-based social transformation efforts,” according to its website—took place in the Northwest Science Building this weekend
Religious Conference Attracts Controversy
A conference to promote religious social activism slated to kick off at the Harvard Extension School tomorrow includes a set of panelists and speakers that have generated controversy due to the homophobic and anti-Islamic remarks that they have made in the past.
Keith Ellison on Muslim Radicalization
Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, speaks at the Harvard Law School about the recent Congress trials regarding the radicalization of Muslims.
Delayed But Not Denied
Students participate in reconstructing a church in western Massachusetts during their Spring break.
Law Professor William Stuntz Dies at Age 52
When Harvard Law School Professor William J. Stuntz laughed, he howled. His entire body—a small frame, smaller even when in his last years when he battled cancer—convulsed.
Imam Speaks at Memorial Church
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Islamic leader who rose to prominence through his proposal to build a mosque near Ground Zero and the first imam to speak at Memorial Church, called for spiritual unity at a time of conflicts among different faiths during a sermon yesterday.
The Big Man
St. Patrick himself makes an appearance at the 2011 parade. On one of the more colorful parade floats of the day, the saint receives a warm welcome from the crowds.
Service Honors Rev. Peter Gomes
The Harvard community filled Memorial Church last night in a service of compline to honor the late Reverend Peter J. Gomes.
Harvard Community Remembers Rev. Peter J. Gomes
The death of the Reverend Peter J. Gomes has sparked an outpouring of emotion from those who knew him both at Harvard and across the country. This post highlights statements issued today in memory of Gomes, who died yesterday following complications from a stroke.
Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Minister in Memorial Church, Dies at Age 68
Reverend Peter J. Gomes died Monday evening after suffering a brain aneurysm and heart attack. He was 68.
James Kugel Reflects on Holiness
Kugel’s meditation on religion is a deeply human one—part scholarship, part personal confession.
Religious Networks Promote Happiness
The study—authored by Government Professor Robert D. Putnam and Chaeyoon Lim, an assistant sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—found that the social experience of religious congregations promotes a sense of happiness and life satisfaction that is stronger than what religious activity alone fosters.
Ahmed Explains Views of Islam in America
In his introduction of Ambassador Ahmed, Associate Director of the Harvard Islamic Studies Program Ali S. Asani ’77 said that the author is “combating this clash of ignorance by educating people.” In his lecture, Ahmed said that after the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, he knew that “the gap which would open between Muslims and non-Muslims would not be easily closed.”