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...Harvard Chaplains sponsored an all-day event yesterday celebrating Harvard’s religious diversity and exploring the role of religion on campus. The series of events featured panelists, performances, lectures, and a fast-breaking for Ramadan in the evening. According to Harvard’s Humanist Chaplain Gregory M. Epstein, the Chaplains decided to sponsor the events to share with the campus the sense of camaraderie that they had developed with one another. “We hardly ever celebrate religious pluralism and demonstrate respect and understanding for all other faiths,” Epstein said...
...only change we made after seeing the title was to eliminate the Chaplain from the service...
...smiled broadly—clearly he did.” After serving as dean of the Divinity School until 1979, Stendahl returned to his home country to serve as the Bishop of Stockholm from 1984-1988. He then returned to the Divinity School as its first chaplain, a position he held until taking a professorship at Brandeis from 1991 until 1993. As Gomes’ graduating class holds its 40th reunion this June, he said that much of their collective experience will have departed with Stendahl’s passing. “We will feel the loss considerably...
...important, as an American, literally to stand with these Tibetans,” she said. “I’m enriched by them. I have so much sympathy for them.” Timothy M. Garrity, a converted Buddhist who studies with Harvard Buddhist Chaplain Lama Migmar Tseten, recited a Tibetan prayer for the deceased halfway through the vigil. Phunkhang said that the vigils will be held continuously for a total of 49 days and periodically after that. According to Tibetan religion, 49 is the number of days it takes for the spirit to leave the body after...
...mood is very different in places like Mosul, where things have gotten worse in the past year. Norris, the son of an Army chaplain, spent his previous tour in Diyala, but some of his men have had firsthand experience of Mosul. Fleenor earned a Purple Heart for the injuries he sustained here in 2004, and he lost his best friend, Sergeant Frank Hernandez, to a roadside bomb during the same deployment. As he walks the confines of Rabiya, Fleenor still wears a black metal band on his wrist etched with Hernandez's name. Sergeant Tony Carter, 33, who also served...