The Daily Herald covered District 214's World Religions Summit, which featured Dr. Hussein Rashid, assistant dean of Religion and Public Life, as the keynote speaker. The article also included long-time RPL collaborators and teachers John Camardella, MRPL '22 and previous RPL program fellow in education, from Prospect High School and Jeanne Shin-Cooper, a member of the RPL Religious Literacy Educator Advisory Commitee, from Buffalo Grove High School, and Sean Radcliff from Rolling Meadows High School. 

In mid-March, District 214’s World...

Harvard Staff Writer Liz Mineo reached out to various religion scholars to discuss the impact of AI on religion. RPL Curriculum/Advisory Committee members Matthew Ichihashi Potts and Charles M. Stang, as well as Jenn Louie, MRPL '23, were among those asked to weigh in.

For religious leaders, AI’s ascent raises fundamental questions about the essence of humanity. The Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, M.Div. ’08, Ph.D. ’13, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, said the question of what it means to be human has...

“This focus on diagnosing complex issues narrowly as religious freedom issues may distract us from addressing salient economic and political drivers. After all, if we diagnose a problem as solely a problem of religious freedom then our prescription will be limited to that. It may treat the symptoms but not the underlying disease, allowing it to grow.”

On July 18, 2023, Susan Hayward, Senior Advisor for Religion and Public Policy at Harvard Divinity School’s Religion and Public Life Program, stated these words before the Committee of Foreign...

 Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, joined GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath to detail Boston’s history with climate activism, and how religion, ancestry and spirituality tie in. The radio segment was informed by Dan McKanan's talk, "Ancestors and Climate in Our Boston Backyard," which was the second session of the Religion and Public Life faculty series, "...

This book talk features the author, Atalia Omer, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding; Senior Fellow in Conflict and Peace, discussing her new book "Decolonizing Religion and the Practice of Peace." The book is an investigation of what consolidating religion as a technology of peacebuilding and development does to people's accounts of their religious and cultural traditions and why interreligious peacebuilding entrenches colonial legacies in the present.... Read more about Video: RCPI Book Series: Decolonizing Religion and the Practice of Peace

In this session, Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity, will discuss these stories and how they can help contemporary Bostonians, and others, recognize that what makes a place wild is not the absence of humans but the presence of ancestors.... Read more about Video: Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: Ancestors and Climate in Our Boston Backyard