Social Justice

By Dan McKanan. Edited by Russell C. Powell Henry David Thoreau is many things to many people: an apostle of simplicity, a brilliant nature writer, a theorist of civil disobedience, one of the first Americans to turn to Asia for spiritual insight, and a...

The after effects of the 1/6 Insurrection continue to reverberate across America. Since that fateful and disturbing day, pushbacks against the teaching of race in America, abortion rollbacks, and Covid denialism have swept across the country. What has...

Author, activist, and farmer Leah Penniman discusses the movement for food sovereignty and building a food system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all members of our community. FULL TRANSCRIPT: Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Good...

Reverend Thomas Hathaway from The Outdoor Church in Cambridge, Mass., Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and MDiv student Zachary Kerzee speak about the issue of homelessness in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and their efforts...

HDS Professor Dan McKanan delivered a presentation on his latest book, Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition, on March 5, 2012. Discussants of the book were Diane L. Moore, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies and Education at...

Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago, delivered the 2012 Dana McLean Greeley Lecture for Peace and Social Justice. Eboo's core belief is that 'religion is a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division.' He has...