Morning Prayers: Climate Week
Zoe Nagasawa '25
Harvard College
"The first full day that we were in Iceland, Reverend Potts asked us to reflect on what apocalypse means to us, we are after all living in the midst of one."
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Sarah Kariko '90
Associate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
"Orb-weaving spiders remind me how inextricably connected we are. Orb-weavers are the one who spin those wheel-shaped webs you might see shimmering with diamond dew in the morning. They remind me that impact anywhere on a web affects even seemingly distant parts."
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The Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in the Faculty of Divinity
"As I was reading about Thorlak while in Iceland, one of the things that struck me is that he was particularly devoted to the Lord's Prayer as a prayer practice. And he had a habit of sitting in a rock outcrop overlooking the landscape, which is now called Thorlak Seat. And the last day were in Iceland, I walked there and sat and prayed the Lord's Prayer and looked at these two volcanoes in the distance that I'm sure Thorlak looked at as well when he prayed."
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John Clayton Gehman MTS I
Harvard Divinity School
"Blessed morning, everyone. I'll be reading a poem from Angelus Silesius. 'The rose is without why. She blooms because she blooms. She pays herself no regard, asks not if she's seen...'"
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Anna Grace Dean '25
Harvard College
"So, the first thing that I think of when thinking of the climate crisis is my home. I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and if you don't know much about Mississippi, Mississippi is the poorest state in the country. Mississippi also bears the brunt of climate change."
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