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...nearly three months ago when a friend’s arm started hurting. “I did it in the shower. The constant noise of the water helps me,” he says. Castillo also writes his own rituals and prays to a shrine of representations of God in his room. But being a witch can be lonely without Wiccan Harvard undergraduates on campus to share rituals and swap spells with. For now, Castillo finds company in his trusty pentagram necklace and books by his favorite Wiccan author, Starhawk. In the meantime, he says he is eager...
Memorial Church’s crisp white spire provides a landmark for students and tourists alike, reminding us every day of God whether we’re believers or not. Yet the recesses of the church are home to another sort of faith, one that millions of Americans subscribe to. In a windowless basement office lined with books like “Who’s Who in Hell,” Gregory H. Epstein, Harvard’s Humanist Chaplain, presides over his own sort of ministry—one that doesn’t include...
...overnight that it transformed into the famously secular research university we know today. Rather, the movement gathered momentum gradually, propelled by intellectual leaders who, while using Christianity as an implicit foundation, believed above all in the advancement of scientific and academic knowledge.For the Puritans who founded the College, separating God from academia was unthinkable. “The whole notion of a secular entity was unheard of,” says Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes.Indeed, Harvard’s “Rules and Precepts” of 1646 hold that “the maine...
...when walking down the street; fellow drivers flick her off for no reason. “They have no idea what we believe,” she says. “Islam is a religion of mercy, based on peace.” 2:50- Does Harvard interfere with God? “Even when you are dealing with classes, your intentions should be for God’s sake,” Tellawi says. She says she aspires to become a neurosurgeon and start a hospital in Palestine, where her family is originally from. 3:50-After some members...
...don’t have to touch religion with a ten-foot-pole if they don’t want to—the closest they have to come is the Moral Reasoning core requirement. And even there, courses like “If There Is No God, All Is Permitted” encourage students to accept the possibility of a world without spirituality.But in a small cluster of buildings just north of the Law School, Harvard quietly continues to prep men and women for the ministry. It’s no seminary, but the Master of Divinity...