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Video: The Decolonizing Rubric: Modernity, Religion and Re-imagining Palestine/Israel

November 9, 2021

No longer do scholarly accounts of Palestine/Israel presume the “two-state solution” as a tangible political principle, if they are realists, or accountable for historical injustice and imagining of alternative futures, if they are concerned with justice, not only peace.

This panel featured a conversation among authors of recent scholarly works that grapple with the changing paradigm of analysis with decolonial sensitivities. The panelists discussed the ethical limits of a paradigm based on ethnoreligious and national segregationist logic and illuminated where religion might fit (or not) in alternative political paradigms that undo exclusionary nationalist ideological frames.... Read more about Video: The Decolonizing Rubric: Modernity, Religion and Re-imagining Palestine/Israel

Maya Pace, MTS '23

‘How Do We Go Towards Our Future Together?’

November 8, 2021

In the fall of 2021, Professor Diane Moore is teaching a seminar that works in tandem with Terry Tempest Williams’ “Weather Reports” conversation series.

Maya Pace and Owen Yager, both first-year master of theological studies degree candidates currently in Professor Moore’s course, spoke about the class and the conversation series, and how the two work in tandem to bring up deeply important conversations for both Owen and Maya’s work.

Journalist and Professor Michael Pollan

Chance of sun in Michael Pollan’s climate forecast

November 2, 2021

The climate forecast, according to Michael Pollan, is “cloudy, with a 60 percent chance of apocalypse.” However, Michael Pollan tells The Harvard Gazette that human behavior can be changed if you give people hope. “If there is anything you can point them to, you’re doing them a service; you’re doing the issue a service,” he said.