In 2001, Harvard University law professor Mary Ann Glendon received an unusual phone call, asking if she’d like to spend three weeks giving a series of talks and workshops to Catholics across Australia.
Trump’s war on international students could hurt private schools too
The Trump administration’s war on blocking international students from U.S. higher education could affect not only the Ivy League but even small Christian schools and Southern Baptist Convention seminaries. While Harvard University has drawn the most attention and headlines in…
Trump vs. Harvard, round 2: The Constitution fights back
In a nation that reveres liberty, intellect and rule of law, the latest clash between Donald J. Trump and Harvard University is not just a headline, it’s a high-stakes constitutional confrontation. And in this second round, the gloves are off….
Harvard releases long-awaited internal antisemitism report amid fierce battle with Trump
Harvard University’s president has apologized for the campus climate over the last year and a half, in a letter accompanying a long-awaited report from a university task force on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias.
Trump’s attack on Harvard is Christian universities’ ‘worst nightmare’
The Trump administration’s attacks on Harvard are Christian universities’ “worst nightmare,” according to retired Christian university sociology professor John Hawthorne. What Trump and his allies are doing in demanding radical changes from Harvard could establish a precedent that could be…
Trump, Harvard and Bob Jones University: The resurrection of racism
Donald Trump’s threat to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University may be novel, but it is not new. It is, in fact, a resurrection of a previous kind of discrimination. There’s one other time in American history when a…
Harvard vs. Trump, round 1
In a nation built on the power of ink, intellect and ideals, a silent war has erupted — not in the streets, not in the skies, but on the hallowed academic grounds of America’s most prestigious institution: Harvard University. The…
Trump officials cite Harvard Divinity as one of university’s ‘schools of concern’
Easily lost in the flurry of news about Harvard University refusing to bend the knee to the Trump administration is that Harvard Divinity School is one of the “programs, schools and centers of concern” cited by the administration as having…
What an experiment with psychedelics 60 years ago might teach us about faith today
Sixty years ago, on Good Friday 1962, Civil Rights leader and minister Howard Thurman preached in Marsh Chapel on Boston University’s campus. Full of striking verbal imagery about Jesus’ suffering and God’s glory, his 85-minute sermon shook the otherwise silent…
Baylor, Harvard team up to study faith’s role in human flourishing
Baylor and Harvard university scientists are looking for the factors that contribute to human flourishing around the world. They announced their five-year, $43.4 million study Oct. 29. The project will evaluate 240,000 individuals from 22 nations over an extended period…
Desire to validate the Bible makes Christians easy prey for archaeological forgeries
The early morning air breathes hot on her face as archaeologist Cynthia Shafer-Elliott picks up her trowel to begin her work she describes as “not for the fainthearted.” Before her stands a mound of dirt, otherwise known as a “tel,”…
Baptist pastors gather in Boston to discuss ministry in divisive times
Close to 40 Baptist ministers gathered in Boston Sept. 17-20 for Baptist News Global’s second Conversations that Matter event. Centered in church venues on and around Harvard University, the gathering this year was themed “Pastoral Leadership in a Polarized and…