Cambridge MA In case you haven rsquo t noticed we are now entering the 12th annual Interfaith Harmony Week an initiative celebrated sometimes with slightly different names such as Interfaith Awareness Week around the world to notice celebrate and deepen the awareness we have of people of fa

Cambridge MA As the Churches continue to read the Sermon on the Mount at Sunday Eucharist until the beginning of Lent I will continue the series I started last week Swami Prabhavananda rsquo s reading of the Sermon in The Sermon on the Mount according to Vedanta This Sunday rsquo s portion is b

Cambridge MA It is the start of the new semester at Harvard and these weeks are more than ordinarily busy mdash even as the relative quiet of the weeks between semesters and our 60 inches of snow makes hibernation seem a better idea than robust activity Classes have begun and I am team-teach

Cambridge MA Austen Ivereigh rsquo s most recent blog very helpfully draws our attention to the Pope rsquo s New Year rsquo s Day - World Day of Peace ndash message Religious Freedom the Path to Peace just as he did a week ago to the Pope rsquo s BBC broadcast and its welcome message Given t

Cambridge MA Taking a deep breath at semester rsquo s end mdash nbsp a semester that has in some ways seemed an eternity mdash nbsp I had the opportunity to look into Pope Benedict rsquo s Light of the World a series of conversations with journalist Peter Seewald that for various reasons has

Cambridge MA Like many of you I am sure I was surprised that the Senate actually voted to repeal Don rsquo t Ask Don rsquo t Tell before ending its lame-duck session In retrospect it seems as if the long discussions and testimonies seem to have made a difference and a few skilled political le

Staten Island NY Blogging for America is an opportunity I appreciate and a pleasure in itself but occasionally there are extra benefits such as the chance once in a while to highlight an event that would not make the headlines Such is today since I am visiting Staten Island where I grew up

Cambridge MA This is a hectic time of the academic year as classes end and papers are due and as other school business gets wrapped up before the winter Christmas break and of course life goes on so there are always other preoccupations as well But in the midst of it all earlier this week I

Cambridge MA Blogging is fine but face-to-face classroom conversation is better ndash for many reasons but including the ability to point our attention back to the issue at hand at any given point So it was the occasion for a great sigh ndash Sigh mdash that my last post on my interrelig

Cambridge MA I am not sure if readers appreciate hearing about events at Harvard but I cannot help returning once again to the manner in which my ldquo new rdquo life at Harvard mdash as professor and now as Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions mdash keeps opening up for