Religion
Faust Reflects on Gomes at Baccalaureate
University President Drew G. Faust invoked the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes at yesterday’s Baccalaureate Service, encouraging members of the Class of 2011 to maintain their identities as they go off to achieve their goals.
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.
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"Skinwalker" Rebecca Kwan eerily creeps out from backstage in the March 23 performance of Skinwalking in the Loeb Ex.
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.
