Harvard Divinity School
Harvard Divinity School
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Dec 7, 2022 • 42sec
“Dark Things” Serbian poem | From Those Who are Spiritual but not Religious
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole.
Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Office of Religious and Spiritual Life under the direction of Christopher Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual, and Kerry A. Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life.
Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/12/8/audio-seasons-light

Dec 7, 2022 • 3min
“Tov L’Hodot L’Hashem” | HDS Choir and Seasons of Light Band
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole.
Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Office of Religious and Spiritual Life under the direction of Christopher Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual, and Kerry A. Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life.
Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/12/8/audio-seasons-light

Dec 7, 2022 • 3min
“Stone Soup,” Adapted by Lizzy Lincoln from a European folktale | From the Pagan Tradition
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole.
Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Office of Religious and Spiritual Life under the direction of Christopher Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual, and Kerry A. Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life.
Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/12/8/audio-seasons-light

Dec 7, 2022 • 4min
“La Ténèbre” by Jacques Berthier, Taizé Community | Congregational Song
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole.
Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Office of Religious and Spiritual Life under the direction of Christopher Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual, and Kerry A. Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life.
Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/12/8/audio-seasons-light

Dec 6, 2022 • 5min
Meditation | “Sweet Surrender”| Chris Berlin, HDS Choir, Seasons of Light Band
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole.
Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Office of Religious and Spiritual Life under the direction of Christopher Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual, and Kerry A. Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life.
Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/12/8/audio-seasons-light

Dec 6, 2022 • 5min
Prelude | “Three Stanzas of Plum Blossoms” | Tianyi Yuan, MDiv III
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole.
Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Office of Religious and Spiritual Life under the direction of Christopher Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual, and Kerry A. Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life.
Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/12/8/audio-seasons-light

Dec 6, 2022 • 4min
Closing Song | “I Love the Lord”| Performed by Aric Flemming, MDiv '19
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole.
Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Office of Religious and Spiritual Life under the direction of Christopher Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual, and Kerry A. Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life.
Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/12/8/audio-seasons-light

Dec 6, 2022 • 2min
Meditation | “Solstice Carole” | Nicole Newell, HDS Choir
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole.
Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Office of Religious and Spiritual Life under the direction of Christopher Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual, and Kerry A. Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life.
Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/12/8/audio-seasons-light

Dec 1, 2022 • 1h 9min
Christianity in Iraq: Challenges and Hopes
Christianity in Iraq is on the brink of erasure. Once home to some of the world’s oldest Christian sites and communities, Iraq and the greater Levant has witnessed an onslaught of instability and violence targeting minority religions. Despite these challenges, leaders of Iraq’s Christian community have risen to become a voice for persecuted religious groups across the region. Archbishop Bashar Warda is a face of these efforts, and his remarks will draw upon both his experience in Iraq, and of the Gospel in defending Christianity and religious freedom today.
This event took place on November 17, 2022
Learn more: https://hds.harvard.edu/
Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/1/13/video-christianity-iraq-challenges-and-hopes

Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 6min
Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live
This lecture, given by Visiting Associate Professor of African American Religions and Women's Studies in Religion Program 2022-23 Research Associate Kinitra D. Brooks, has to do with conjure feminism and Dona Kimpa Vita.
This event took place on November 17, 2022
Learn more: https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/home
Full transcript: https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/1/5/video-thou-shalt-not-suffer-witch-live


