As the year is winding down, and summer beckons, some Harvard faculty generously shared some books that they have read and re-read.  Frank Clooney, our Director, contributed to this piece in the Harvard Gazette with a brief reflection on the Bible.  You can read the piece in its entirety here.

Matthew Weinstein, a second-year master of divinity degree candidate, spoke to Professor Clooney, one of the world’s leading experts on comparative theology, about his tenure as director of the Center and the role it has had and can have within Harvard and the wider world. Read more about The CSWR Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

"When I first visited CSWR in April 2015, I was invaded by its peaceful presence. Looking around me to find the source or the hidden traces of this serenity, I thought I was doing the wrong thing—which is looking. I should be hearing, listening. Listening to the water stream of the small fountain in the community garden. I thought that the peacefulness of this place is embodied in its acoustic environment as much as it is embedded in the interior architecture of the building and carried by the traces of the people who lived here before. I compare the sounds that surround us to the

Dr. Anna Sun, HDS Berggruen Fellow and Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Kenyon College, gave a lecture based on her research project for the year, "The Logic of Prayer in Contemporary China."

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