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Student OrganizationsThe Harvard Divinity School Office of Student Life recognizes and encourages the formation of student organizations. Resources and encouragement are given to those students with new ideas who would like to establish new groups, as well as to the further growth and development of already existing groups. HDS student organizations reflect the diversity of student needs and interests. All student organizations register with the Office of Student Life on an annual basis. Once an organization is organized and recognized, it is eligible for financial support from Life Together, the HDS student government organization. Life TogetherLife Together provides the HDS student voice in the administrative and policy-making procedures of the School. Through the work of the elected student officers and with the approval of the Dean, student representatives are assigned to each HDS committee. Life Together meets monthly with the Dean to discuss student concerns and issues that affect the entire community. Life Together provides opportunities for conversation among students, faculty, and staff through roundtable discussions and town hall meetings. The Life Together officers for the 2009-10 academic year are: Coordinator for Academics Coordinator for Communications Coordinator for Events Coordinator for Finance Coordinator for Life Together Coordinator for Spirituality Coordinator for Student Affairs 2009-10 Student OrganizationsContact information for student groups is available to members of the HDS community in the Office of Student Life section of Student Services on the HDS intranet. Asian Student AssociationThe Asian Student Association welcomes all members of the HDS community to join us in exploring the many faces of Asian culture and tradition. We hope to be a "home away from home" for international students from Asia, as well as a common space and platform for Asian students to express their values and concerns. We cordially welcome all new and returning students to join us in the coming year's activities Catholics and Colleagues Called to CareOpen to all, this group discusses contemporary issues in the Catholic Church. Current action topics include views of sexuality and women, the priest shortage, and the need for a more inclusive priesthood. Cult/ure: The Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity SchoolCult/ure is a student-run academic journal. We publish exemplary student scholarship in the areas of religious studies, ministry studies, and theology twice annually. Divinity United Church of Christ Students (DUCCS)DUCCS is a community of worship and support for UCC students and all who may be interested in the radical and extravagant welcome espoused by this denomination. ECOdivFaith for AllFaith for All is the campus BGLTQSI student group. We endeavor to bring together students, staff, and faculty with regard to issues of sex, orientation, and gender. We do this by holding events in the HDS and wider Harvard communities, thus raising the comfort and awareness of all, regardless of faith-based background. Friends and Followers of Eastern ChristianityFriends at HDSFull Immersion: HDS BaptistsFull Immersion: HDS Baptists is the Baptist student group of Harvard Divinity School. We offer students from a variety of Baptist traditions a spiritual home by providing opportunities to discuss and engage in Baptist traditions and ways of thought. HarambeeHarambee is the organization for students of African descent at Harvard Divinity School. The organization welcomes African Americans, Caribbean, Latin American, Afro-European, Afro-Asian, and African students. As an organization at a school committed to "scholarship and ministry in a religiously plural world," Harambee welcomes students regardless of religious faith or denomination. HDS Atheists, Skeptics, and Humanists (HASH)HDS Buddhist CommunityHBC is a nondenominational Buddhist organization dedicated to peace, compassion, and tolerance. Our mission is to support those on a journey of awakening through practice, study, and sangha (community). Our purpose is to provide space and time for students to gather, engage, and practice in community. Please visit our website. HDS Catholic StudentsHDS Chant & SongA group for developing skills for singing chant in a variety of traditions, we will explore meditative, devotional, liturgical, and communal practices through meetings, workshops, and events. HDS Christian FellowshipThe HDS Christian Fellowship exists to encourage its members to think and live in such a way that the minds and imaginations of the HDS community will be challenged with the credibility and beauty of the gospel of Jesus Christ as it touches every area of life. Our activities include fellowship, meals, weekly prayer meetings, and organizing occasional public events such as faculty panels or dialogues. We also join other Harvard graduate school fellowships for worship and other activities. All are welcome. HDS Episcopal/Anglican Student FellowshipWe gather regularly to worship, study, and support one another. Recent activities have included a weekly Eucharist followed by a reading group. All students, faculty, and staff welcome! HDS Family-CommunityWe plan events, programs, gatherings, and outings to facilitate and enrich our various purposes and aspirations at HDS. Family-Community is open to all youth, to all those who remember being young, and to the youthfulness in us all whether we are current students, incoming students, faculty, staff, spouses, or larger community. Through this lens, we hope to advocate for services that may enhance a sense of family-community at the School. HDS Garden GroupHDS Innocence Project Engagement GroupHDS Jewish Student AssociationThe Jewish Student Association (JSA) seeks to provide communal space for students and to reach out to other religious groups on campus. Our past programs have included interfaith events and dialogues, lectures, movie nights, Torah study, and holiday festivities such as Shabbat dinners, Sukkah building, and Purim parties. We also strive to include new ideas and programs and are excited to hear about your interests. So, whether you crave text study, theological debate, new perspectives on old ideas, or celebration of ancient holidays, please come join us! HDS Korean Student AssociationThe HDS Korean Student Association seeks to provide educational support, networking, spiritual well-being, and a sense of community for Korean and Korean American students of Harvard Divinity School. It also serves as a context for the study of issues facing Korean and Korean American ministry. In addition, it strives to enrich all HDS students' multicultural, social, and academic experiences. HDS Latter-day Saint SocietyThe HDS Latter-day Saint Society exists to provide social and intellectual opportunities for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and friends. HDS LutheransHDS Lutherans seek to grow in understanding both the depth and breadth of Lutheran identity, and to creatively share such understanding with others while treasuring the plural nature of this place. We orient our time together around worship, community and learning. All are welcome, and we delight in the presence of ecumenical and interfaith friends. We gather weekly for evening prayer, reflection and conversation. About once each month we host a "Table Talk" at the Rock or at a local pub or restaurant, frequently featuring guests from the wider Lutheran community. We travel several times each year, notably to the "Lutherans in Diaspora" conference every February (with Yale, Union, and Princeton) and to Ecumenical Advocacy Days in Washington, D.C., each March. We are grateful for the campus ministry support of University Lutheran Church, with whom we share excellent retreats, trips, and other fun/educational programming. HDS MethodistsHDS Outing ClubHDS PresbyteriansThe purpose of this group is to provide the HDS community with an opportunity to experience Presbyterian and Reformed worship, theology, history, and practice; and to offer Presbyterian students support and fellowship. HDS Prison Education ProjectWe provide support to prisoners working towards bachelors degrees from Boston University. We provide educational, spiritual, and emotional support and mentorship, and visit prisons on a regular basis. HDS Society for Comparative TheologyHDS Zen Peacemaker CircleUsing sitting meditation and circle practice, we come together to tell our stories from the heart and listen from the heart to the truths revealed by ourselves to ourselves. HEART of HDS (Honoring Experiential & Alternative Religious Traditions)Honoring Native VoicesHonoring Native Voices is the organizational continuation of the 2008 "Native American Religious Issues" research course and the three panels it sponsored at HDS. We sponsor speakers, research trips, and discussions. Our purpose is to consult with the administration, students, and indigenous communities, scholars, and organizations to develop a respectful place for Native American religious traditions at HDS. Our focus is on American indigenous traditions, but we seek solidarity with global indigenous voices as well. We will also serve to interface with the Divinity School and the Harvard University Native American Program. HUUMS (HDS Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Students)Kingdom Campus ConnectionThe purpose of Kingdom Campus Connection is to create a network for Christians campus-wide to connect on spiritual and academic levels through worship services, seminars and social activities. Ministry in MotionMinistry in Motion recognizes, explores, and celebrates the embodied arts of ministry. We gather to share practices of eclectic movement and dance, both facilitated and open-formed. While most sessions time is devoted to active experience, we also support ongoing dialogue on how the group practices inform our own understanding of and engagement in ministries of motion. We invite everyone in all our glorious ages, shapes, and abilities. Nuestra VozShura': Islamic ForumThe Situationists at Harvard Divinity SchoolCollectively organized under the name The Situationists at Harvard Divinity School, we are as much unified as we are diverse, as much constructive as we are deconstructive, and as adamant about upholding the meaning of such characterizations as we are not. In theory and practice we aim to create situations that gesture toward the impossibility of not creating situations and the responsibility that resides therein. Unitarian Universalist Working Group on RitualThis group balances intellectual reflection with creative praxis and experimentation in an attempt to expand the role of ritual practices in the Unitarian Universalist tradition. The WickThe Wick publishes a literary journal that supports the flourishing literary and artistic lives of students at Harvard Divinity School and the larger Harvard community of creative individuals. Yum YogaYum Yoga's purpose is the teaching, learning, and support of yoga and embodied spiritual praxis. Community OpportunitiesCommunity TeaHosted by the Office of Student Life on most Tuesdays during the fall and spring terms from 4:30 to 6 pm in the Braun Room, Community Tea offers a chance for students, faculty, and staff to engage in informal conversation over beverages and food. It is a time to relax, refuel, and reconnect with the community. Harvard Divinity School ChoirThe HDS Choir sings occasionally for the weekly Noon Service in Andover Chapel, as well as for the annual "Seasons of Light" celebration (to be held this year on Tuesday, December 1, 2009, at 6 pm). Rehearsals take place in Andover Chapel at 11:30 am on the Wednesdays that the choir will sing. Any students, staff, or faculty interested in joining the choir may contact Harry Huff, organist and choir director. The Nave OnlineThe Nave Online is a student website that publicizes events and opportunities at the School, around the University, and in the surrounding communities. Photo albums of HDS community events, student group activities and websites, student writings, classified ads, links to other resources, calls for papers, and more are updated throughout the week. The editor can be contacted at nave@hds.harvard.edu, and welcomes contributions. To read The Nave Online, those with an HDS login can click on the "Nave" tab on the home page of the HDS intranet. Wednesday Noon ServiceHosted each week by a different religious community of the HDS campus and overseen by a steering committee of students and staff, this weekly service allows the HDS community to pray with our companions across the boundaries of our many respective traditions. The Wednesday Noon Service Committee is dedicated to creating a safe and respectful environment for diverse faith-based and student-run groups at HDS. Acknowledging the unique religious diversity of our campus, we aim to support and advance the religious pluralism of the School by engaging and honoring the many religious perspectives, commitments, and experiences among us. By creating a recognized time and place for all of us to come together in prayer, in reflection, in ritual, and in conversation, we seek not only to aid the ongoing dialogue among our various faiths, but also, to come to know and to serve each other. Each service begins and ends with ritual elements led by the Noon Service Steering Committee to gather and send us out with words and movements that can be shared by all. The host community of the week designs and leads the center of the service in order to share the unique particularities of its tradition as much as possible with those inside and outside their community. WomenChurchWomenChurch is an imaginative, ecumenical, feminist worship community for women. Like the larger women-church movement, WomenChurch encourages various expressions of women's religious agency in a patriarchal world, co-creating monthly services, retreats, and other gatherings. All women are welcome. |
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