Memorial Church

Professor Matthew Ichihashi Potts looks forward to brewing his signature pour-over coffee every morning. It’s a meditative moment—beans become grounds, still water boils, and the two steep together for precisely three minutes. It’s his morning routine...

HDS Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Melissa Wood Bartholomew, and HDS Associate Dean of Ministry Studies Theodore N. Hickman-Maynard joined members of the Harvard community for a vigil in Memorial Church to mark the end of Black...

HDS Dean David N. Hempton delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on September 12, 2022. ♦♦♦ Good morning, everyone. Happy Monday morning. I'm going to begin my reading where Sarah Whiting left off on Thursday from...

Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies Stephanie Paulsell was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Commencement Service on May 25, 2022. The following remarks were delivered by Paulsell during the service at...

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity, Professor of Comparative Theology, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 15, 2022. ♦♦♦ Our reading this morning is from the Gospel according to St...

The Reverend Dan Smith, MDiv '98, Lecturer on Ministry, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 11, 2022. ♦♦♦ For our reading today, I'd like to offer a timely excerpt from the 1950s journal of an Austrian...

The Reverend Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at HDS, and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 13, 2022. ♦♦♦ This is a reading from...

The Reverend Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at HDS, and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 8, 2022. ♦♦♦ This is a reading from the...

The Reverend Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at HDS, and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 6, 2022. ♦♦♦ This is a reading from the...

"Love doesn't turn away. Love doesn't sit still. And it doesn't stop trying to welcome the disinherited home. It gets up, and it goes," said the The Reverend Matthew Ichihashi Potts, PhD, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, HDS Plummer Professor of...