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Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is the Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, and a scholar of Hinduism and Hindu-Christian studies. He wrote for America’s In All Things column between 2007 and 2016. His latest book, The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies, has recently been published by Routledge.
In All Things
Cambridge MA I had occasion to preach on the Harvard campus this morning mdash nbsp Thursday in the 5th week of Lent mdash and as is often the case found myself challenged by the Gospel even before I could present it to the congregation Today rsquo s reading is from the second half of chapt
In All Things
Cambridge MA For readers who want more than the written word I was honored to give the Loyola Lecture at Le Moyne College in Syracuse last week on March 14 and it has already been posted at the college website You can find the video here I am introduced by Dr Fred Glennon Chair of the Depar
In All Things
Cambridge MA Many readers of this blog will think of me as a progressive on interfaith matters one of those Jesuit liberals You may not know however that I am also with some regularity pilloried in the conservative Hindu blogosphere by journalists concerned about Christian aggression agains
In All Things
Cambridge MA On this first Sunday of Lent February 26 we heard a remarkably brief version of Jesus rsquo time in the desert ldquo And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness He was in the wilderness for forty days tempted by Satan and he was with the wild beasts and the a
In All Things
Cambridge MA Several blogs ago I promised that I would say something about recent events at CSWR the Center for the Study of World Religions which I direct and Harvard during Interfaith Week and the days around it As I suggested in that previous blog most of our events were not directly conn
In All Things
Cambridge MA Only recently did I blog on the passing of two venerable figures who helped us to live and think in our religiously diverse world Franz Josef Van Beeck and Kenneth Morgan and did not expect to add another such entry so soon But word reached me the other day that John Hick died on F
In All Things
Cambridge MA This is Interfaith Awareness Week at Harvard as part of World Interfaith Harmony Week only in part by coincidence we have scheduled a rich variety of events at the Center for the Study of World Religions After the week is over I will reflect on some of what happened and I rsquo ve
In All Things
Cambridge MA The other day someone asked me ldquo Is enlightenment compatible with Christian faith rdquo It was at an interreligious gathering where I had just spoken on my experience of encountering Hinduism in its various forms and surely my questioner was thinking of enlightenment as a dec
In All Things
Cambridge Ma Readers of this blog will have noticed over the years that I have no inside connections in Rome or in the Vatican Most of what I know about such things I get by reading periodicals such as America blogs at this site and from the Jesuit grape vine I rsquo ve only been to Rome twice
In All Things
Cambridge MA In a New York Times column entitled ldquo So Much Fun So Irrelevant rdquo on January 3 Thomas Friedman focused on the importance of the vast advances in global connectivity and the way what and how we know today is changing the quality of our lives All of this of course rather