Student Programs

Morning Prayers is one of Harvard’s most cherished and long-standing traditions. Each year, the Memorial Church has invited a senior from each house to share their insight, their wisdom, and their reflections about how the Harvard experience shaped their...

On The Rise Participant "Alex" stands across the street from the day shelter she has relied on for more than 20 years for help and guidance. Photos by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications. By Jeffrey Blackwell Creative and Communications Lead...

The Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Ph.D, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Plummmer Professor of Christian Morals in the Faculty of Divinity. Photo by Stephaine Mitchell, Harvard Gazette. I write from the Memorial Church bidding you every good wish...

Theologies, Perspectives, and Stories: The Memorial Church for a week of Morning Prayers services explores LGBTQ+-affirming theologies, queer concepts of the divine, and stories of queer folks of faith from around campus. Aidan Scully '25 Harvard College...

The Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Ph.D, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Plummmer Professor of Christian Morals, Faculty of Divinity. Photo by Stephaine Mitchell, Harvard Gazette. Dear friends of the Memorial Church, Though the bustle of the fall...

By Anna Burnham Student Program Coordinator The Memorial Church of Harvard University In 1945, a group of young men came together in a tiny village in Burgundy in the east of France and decided to take vows and live together in a community of faith...

Fall leaves frame the steeple of the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. The church bell will ring 22 times on Nov. 1, in commemoration of the lives lost to COVID-19. Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell/MemChurch Communications Commemoration We invite you to...

Lawrence Jia '23 , Memorial Church Student Advisory Board member. Courtesy photo. By Lawrence Jia '23 Memorial Church Student Advisory Board I stroll in the small brick building off Parkway Lane, carefully treading the fraying red carpet just as I had...

Sana Shareef '22, Co-President of the Facilitators for Religious Ethical and Spiritual Inquiry, Photo Courtesy of Sana Shareef. By Sana Shareef '22 Co-President of the Facilitators for Religious Ethical and Spiritual Inquiry “Jaan” an Urdu term of...

By Jeffrey Blackwell/Harvard Memorial Church Communications The practice of pilgrimage is often a journey into an unknown land taken by people with the desire to discover new understanding and meaning through the portal of experience. For centuries...