Religion, Science, and Sustainability

“One of the things that is shocking to me is the way we just trundle on,” said Elizabeth Kolbert, whose 2014 book “The Sixth Extinction” was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. “Each loss doesn’t get marked, and I see my role to a great extent as bearing witness.”

Professor Dan McKanan, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity, has previously published books on religious movements working towards social justice and transformation. In his new book, Eco-Alchemy...

If a link exists between business, science, and religion, William A. Nitze, AB '64, JD '69, just may have found it.

William A. Graham, former HDS Dean and Murray A. Albertson Research Professor of Middle Eastern Studies (FAS), delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 20, 2019.

At a Noon Service hosted in the spring by the HDS Garden Group, the Rev. Dr. María Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa, MDiv ’07, ThD ’16, shared a single ear of multicolored corn with those present.

The 2021 fall conversation series, “ Weather Reports: The Climate of Now,” continued November 1 with a conversation between HDS Writer-in-Residence Terry Tempest Williams and celebrated author and journalist Michael Pollan. Pollan’s work has covered our...

In the fall of 2021, Professor Diane Moore is teaching a seminar that works in tandem with Terry Tempest Williams’ “ Weather Reports” conversation series, picking up the ideas put forth in each week’s conversation in a more academic setting. Conversations...

“Nothing is inevitable; everything’s evitable; and that’s really important. That’s one of the reasons we study history, and we see that very specific decisions resulted in specific outcomes. It didn’t just happen. We’re very fatalistic. People assume...

On the United Kingdom’s 2001 census, 390,000 people identified their religion as “Jediism.” Yup, you heard right. Jediism . . . as in Jedi Knights . . . the fictional peacekeepers from the Star Wars franchise. As you can imagine, the “Jedi Census...

“I didn’t grow up religious, but from a young age I’ve found whatever divine presence is out there in the American West’s nature. There are so many crises facing those natural expanses, though, from existential crises prompted by climate change to deep...