Brahma Kumaris monastic Sudarshan Sundar reflects on interfaith exploration, academic growth, and a year of spiritual ...

“I came to religious life with the question of what was meaningful about existence,” said Brahmacharini Durga, a monastic in ...

[AUDIO LOGO] SPEAKER 1: Harvard Divinity School. SPEAKER 2: On Being a Hindu Monastic, Personal Journeys. March 20, 2024. FRANCIS CLOONEY: Welcome to our gathering this evening. Please, there are ...

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This summer, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued two major decisions with religion at the center of the cases. In Groff v. DeJoy, the court bolstered protections for workers asking ...

On December 6, 2022, the Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life invited the entire HDS community to Seasons of Light. As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, this beloved ...

In this episode, we’re going to trace these historical lines from here at Marsh Chapel in 1962 to the present moment of psychedelic spirituality, and to see what role psychedelics might play in the ...

To some, the word “psychedelics” is a synonym for the 1960s. This name—coined in 1957 for a class of drugs that profoundly alter our states of consciousness—derives from the Greek deloun and psyche ...

Religious life, like everything else in life, has been drastically impacted by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Here at Harvard and in the Boston area, we’ve seen houses of worship closed, religious ...

The following opinion piece was written by Catherine A. Brekus, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America. On June 1, 2020, a group of peaceful protesters in Washington, D.C. was ...

Three Hindu monastics visiting Harvard Divinity School this year spoke on March 11, 2020, on the great tradition of the Upanisads and Vedanta, and why this wisdom is relevant in today’s global society ...

Origen was born in Alexandria in the late second century to Christian parents who gave him a pagan name: Ôrigenês, “child of Horus,” the falcon-headed sky god of the Egyptian pantheon. His was a life ...