Cross erected by construction and rescue crews at Ground Zero following the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications. Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public...

Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana speaks at Morning Prayers, Sept. 8, 2017.

David N. Hempton, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School speaks at Morning Prayers, Sept. 7, 2017. Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications

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Morning Prayers address by Westley Conn, Ministry Fellow, for the Memorial Church. 

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My Mid-Life Crisis

“Life is short.  We don't have much time to gladden the hearts of those who walk this way with us. So, be swift to love and make haste to be kind.”—Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 19th century swiss poet... Read more about Morning Prayers: Prof. Jonathan L. Walton Defines the Real Meaning of Success

Good morning. Before I begin my prepared remarks, I would like to ask all of us to take a moment to think about the people in Texas and now Louisiana. To take a moment to pray for them, silently, and to...

Andy Troska ’17, University Choir Senior Secretary, speaks at Morning Prayers. Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications

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Kamara Swaby '17, Leverett House, speaks at Morning Prayers during Senior Talks

Morning Prayers service with speaker Madeline Lear '17,  Harvard College. Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications

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Morning Prayers service speech by Katie Gibson, Communications Officer, John F. Kennedy School of Government. Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications.

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Morning Prayers speech by Soha H. Bayoumi, Allston Burr Assistant Dean of Harvard College, Kirkland House; Lecturer, Department of the History of Science. Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications

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Morning Prayer by Rev. Alanna C. Sullivan, Associate Minister in the Memorial Church. Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell

Morning Prayers speech by Lumumba Babushe Seegars '09, Ph.D Student in Organizational Behavior, GSAS and HBS; Resident Tutor, Kirkland House

By Harvard Divinity School Professor Laura S. Nasrallah |  As delivered at Morning Prayers on November 15, 2016.

The day after the election I began to think about a tiny book, nestled in a box in storage at the Harvard Art Museums, and I began to think about fear. The sixth-century codex can fit into the palm of your hand. It declares on its first page in the ancient Egyptian language Coptic that it is “The gospel of the lots of Mary.”

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