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'The Work of a Life': Cultivating Contemplative Practice with Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford

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How a once "bad meditator" became a Buddhist chaplain now offering spiritual care to those in distress and to minority religion students at Harvard Divinity School For Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford, contemplative practice has never looked like meditating on a...

Connecting the Monk and the Reveler with Lindsay Sanwald, MDiv ‘22

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“Why is it so hard to write one beautiful sentence? Because it is an act of God.” Lindsay Sanwald, MDiv ’22, is a creative producer, sober bartender, queer mystic, and psychedelic indie-rocker, stage name Idgy Dean . At HDS, she studied Vedic literature...

Faculty and Program Team | IIM and IIC

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The Insight into Mindfulness program will take place over a three-and-a-half-day curriculum, designed by a faculty leadership team comprised of Buddhist chaplains and mental health professionals.

Ethical Leadership in Action: Venerable Priya Rakkhit Sraman, MDiv '17

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Questions and answers guide the Venerable Priya Rakkhit Sraman's Buddhist ministry. He began his monastic studies at the young age of 11 years old, exploring the many facets of Buddhism before pursuing his master of divinity degree at HDS. As the new...

Graduate Profile: Aliza Abolafia, MDiv '23

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Memorable Moment Dancing ecstatically among friends (for the first time since the beginning of Covid) at the wonderful and insanely talented Idgy Dean’s (AKA Lindsey Sandwald, MDiv ’22) "one-woman mystical rock opera." Jews for Liberation Purim Spiel 2023...

Shared Learning, Creativity, and Collaboration in Peace Practice

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This feature was written by Tajay Bongsa, Odalis Garcia, Nicole Morris, Nicholas J. Scrimenti, Kayla J. Smith, and Hope Williams of the Religions and the Practice of Peace team. It started with a song, "Celebrate Good Times." Everyone got up on their feet...

Graduate Profile: Charlotte McAdams, MDiv '24

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How I've Changed I have gained a much stronger sense of self and deeper understanding of ministry in action. Memorable Moment I was involved in the Queer Rites noon service planning all three years. It was beautiful to create a ritual to share with our...

Cheryl A. Giles

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• BA, Boston College
• MDiv, Harvard Divinity School
• PsyD, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology

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Cheryl A. Giles is the Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling Emerita and former core faculty for the...

HDS Students Win Harvard Culture Lab Grant for Deep Listening Project

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HDS students Paula Ortiz and Lia Pikus are using their grant to launch workshops that foster connection and belonging across campus. 

Video: Transcendence and Transformation, Take Two

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On October 3, 2022, Charles M. Stang, Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR), discussed the Center’s new initiative, “Transcendence and Transformation,” and introduced its secondcohort of research associates and post-doctoral...

Harvard Divinity Student Thomas McConkie Aims to Help Others Realize a ‘Greater Fullness’

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“There’s a lot of Mormonism in my Zen and a lot of Zen in my Mormonism,” Thomas McConkie, MDiv ’25, says. This elegant synthesis, however, took years of meditation and spiritual exploration to articulate. During his freshman year in college at the...

Stephanie Paulsell

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• BA, Greensboro College
• MA, PhD, University of Chicago

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Stephanie Paulsell has been a member of the HDS faculty since 2001. She is the author of Religion Around Virginia Woolf (2019), co-editor (with Davíd Carrasco and Mara Willard) of Goodne...