Category Archives: Current Events

Religion at Harvard

http://www.newsweek.com/id/233413
I thought this was an especially interesting article because it shed light on a number of intersections we are navigating:  What role do we as believers and/or students of religion allow faith to play in our lives — personally and publicly? Does participating in a fiercely vigorous academic environment  lead us to separate our beliefs [...]

Lent

Since last Wednesday, many people around the world, both Christians as well as some non-Christians, decided to give up a bad habit for the period of forty days and forty nights known as Lent. The symbolism behind Lent is that Jesus traveled the desert for forty days and forty nights and did not succumb to [...]

Karma Yoga in Harvard Square

It comes up very often in Karma Yoga that in order to truly help others, we must not think that we’re doing anyone else a favor. And in reality, in order to help anyone in the right way, we must really try to fully understand them first. The best advice I’ve received came from those [...]