MRPL

This year’s Master of Religion and Public Life (MRPL) cohort exemplified the best of HDS.

We always have capacity together to build meaningful relationships and lives, and the structures that support them. For Wolfsun, this gritty hope is sustained not only by the possibility of political wins but by the relationships forged in the work.

Building a just world at peace will require disrupting cycles of violence, which in turn requires a willingness from our institutions to offer a pathway out of shame, through accountability, for those who cause harm.

After writing many books with religious themes and magical elements, Hoffman looked forward to taking classes that would allow her to have a deeper understanding of religion and its place in literature.

Stephanie Tabashneck, MRPL '25, reflects on the carceral state and our capacity to envision justice beyond punishment, and safety beyond control.

For me, writing is a form of calling myself deeply into presence with someone, or an emotion, or a space.

Poetry acts like a medicine and feels like nourishment. Poetry is indispensable. It is a language of imagination, which is world-building.