Religion
Sex Week Event Explores Religion and Sexuality
As part of the second annual Sex Week, two Harvard chaplains led a discussion on Wednesday about how religious backgrounds affect individuals’ perspectives on sex and sexuality.
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Three of the panelists at the Sex Week Event "Faith, Sex, & Love: Bring It On!" in the Phillips Brooks House Parlor (10/24). A diverse mixture of Harvard chaplains and students met to discuss love and sex, and learn about other points of view. After the brief panel, students divided into small groups to discuss questions regarding ethics, faith, common sense, upbringing, and other related topics.
Professor Discusses Role of Mormons and Evangelical Christians in Election
Mark R. Silk '72, professor of religion at Trinity College, discussed the role of Evangelicals and Mormons in the presidential election at a panel event on Wednesday.
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Dr. Leah Garrett, professor at Monash University, discusses her research on Jewish American war novels of the 40's, particularly the groundbreaking presentations of Jewish American soldiers struggling with antisemitism, masculinity, and identity within their platoons. Garrett's lecture was sponsored by Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center.
True Love, New Name
True Love Revolution no longer exists. Now, students say, the Anscombe Society exists not as a support group but as a community promoting abstinence, heterosexual marriage, and traditional gender roles.
Compassion in the ArtSpace
Patrons admires art featured in the show “Compassion: The Good Samaritan,” which is on display in the Adams ArtSpace.
Sing-a-long Brunch Honors Former Director of Hillel
A brunch at Hillel on Sunday honored the center's former director, Rabbi Ben-Zion, with a sing-a-long to his new CD.
Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold
Kadimah Michelson, a member of the Harvard Hillel Study and Worship community, congratulated Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold after his CD release Sunday. Gold, a Holocaust survivor, published author, and former director of Harvard Hillel, worked with his associate Jane Myers, a former Radcliffe student, to release a collection of Polish melodies he still remembers from childhood. Current Hillel director and Rabbi, Jonah Steinberg, says the event inspires "a tremendous sense of legacy."
Faith and Reason
The fact that the beliefs of some religious people contradict our knowledge of the natural world does not imply that religion and science are irreconcilable.
In the 1940s, Harvard Had Waiters (and About the Same Number of Students)
Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.
Vatican Discredits HDS Prof's Finding
The Vatican joined a growing number of skeptics Friday in questioning the authenticity of a recently unveiled piece of papyrus said to demonstrate some early Christians believed that Jesus Christ was married.
A Burglar Falling from Widener and the Birth of the Shuttle
Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.
