Prayer

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...

An accidental daily prayer practice is forging new connections between HDS student Farley Urmston and her dad.

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 February 16, 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 December 1, 2021. ♦♦♦ Today in my church...

Laurie D. Sedgwick, MDiv ‘23, Coordinator, HDS Office of Career Services, Administration, Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 18, 2021. ♦♦♦ Our speaker this morning, Laura Tuach, is...

Anna Burnham, MDiv '20, Student Program Coordinator, the Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 23, 2021. ♦♦♦ The following is an excerpt from, Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag....

Kent French, MDiv '07 and Senior Pastor at The United Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 2, 2019. ♦♦♦ Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your...

Susie Hayward, MDiv '07, Associate Director, Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative, HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 8, 2021. ♦♦♦ Good Monday morning, everyone. Our reading this...

"This is abstracting the relationships that are built through prayer. It’s abstracting just the petitionary from all these other kinds of Christian prayers, which just makes it a less rich experience as part of a community and a less rich prayer life,"...