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Only last week, 200 members of the Div School's faculty, student body and staff-an over whelming majority of the institution-signed a statement calling for a world-wide freeze on nuclear weapons. The statement, addressed to the nation's religious community, appeared as an advertisement in a nationally circulated religious magazine. The Div School's populations-both faculty and students-has been at the forefront of many other progressive movements as well. Some of the school's professors accepted burnt draft cards at the pulpit during the Vietnam War; others have led the movement to integrate the woman...
...nearly every progressive cause on the national scene would find a group of active sympathizers on Divinity Ave In a time when Moral Majority and Christian fundamentalists dominate the nation's image of religion and hold powerful political away, the Div School is the odd kid on the block. The Rev Jerry Falwell would find no red carpet here...
...1950s, when former Sen Joseph McCarthy's "Red Scares" dominated the political life of the nation, Div School activism had a different focus. As the government investigated citizens accused of Communist leanings. FBI agents frequently interrupted classes to ask questions about the backgrounds of students and alumni. "I would be interrupted in lecture sometimes by FBI agents telling me 'you've got to stop right now. James L. Adams, Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity Emeritus, recalls. "They'd ask me questions like 'Describe again the New Republic, is that a radical magazine?" But the Div School's faculty resisted. Adams, George...
More recently, Div School activists have turned to the dual issues of nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Two years ago a contingent of students jointed in the protest at the Seabrook, N.H. nuclear power plant, returning to organize the Harvard Divinity School Peace Fellowship...
...fellowship, which became active last spring organized and sponsored a conference, entitled "Waging Peace," on the subject of nuclear disarmament. At the conference last April, John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity and George Rupp Div School death, addressed 800 people from all over NEw England. Now the Rev. Larry M. Hill, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe United Ministry. Is working with a local group of religious educators on another disarmament conference planned for this spring...