Browsing HDS Student Papers by Title
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Abolition as Spiritual Discipline
This paper explores abolition as a spiritual discipline, considering the possibilities of turning a political commitment into a ritual, daily practice that becomes an ethic. Incarcerated people have always documented their ... -
Abortion, Eugenics, and Civilization: Catholic Anti-Abortion Arguments during the Great Depression
(2021-05)During the early years of the Great Depression, financial pressures caused the rate of abortions to at least double despite the procedure’s illegality in every state. In response to this rise in abortions, Catholic theologians ... -
Almost No Matter What
(2020)"Almost No Matter What" is a work of autotheory - according to Stacey Young, a mode of writing "personal experience within political contexts" - in the emerging discipline of post-capitalist pastoral theology. Aware that ... -
The Army Chaplain Corps: Performing and Providing Queer Religious Support
I have previously written on the effects of the non-affirming church on the LGBTQIA+ community compared to that of an affirming church. Additionally, I’ve considered the treatment of queer Soldiers in my Army ROTC program, ... -
Assessing Theological Foundations Of Land Justice Among Communities of Catholic Sisters
This capstone project assessed the theological foundations underpinning growing movements for land justice among communities of Catholic Sisters. The project involved a series of conversations with Catholic Sisters and ... -
Beloved Glimpses: A Unitarian Universalist Theology of the Beloved Community and Implications for Our Shared World
Theology of the Beloved Community has become mainstream in many discussions across Unitarian Universalism. As a powerful concept that emerged out of the works of Dr. Josiah Royce and popularized by the 1960s US Civil Rights ... -
The Birmingham Project and Ethics of Mourning
Through skillful reflection on the medium of photography, working in community, and visualizing loss and presence, Dawoud Bey’s The Birmingham Project forms a ruminative series of images. As a visual memorial, the series ... -
Black Relativity: On Law, Music, and Spirit in (Anti-)Black Time
(2021)This paper argues that anti-Blackness is so vast, pervasive, and powerful that it has disfigured the concept and experience of time for Black people, and it argues that, against and within this disfigurement, Black people ... -
Blind Visions: Psychedelics, Thomas Merton, and Reformed Mysticism
The author shares his Christian faith journey and its impact on his psychedelic thought. The paper is a theological conversation with Thomas Merton’s books, essays, letters, journals, and monastic lectures and the Reformed ... -
Body, the Lived Experience: Chinese Female Laity and Their Meditation Practices
Focusing on the expression––regaining the ownership of the body––this thesis attempts to explore the gendered dimension of the Chinese lay meditation movement from two aspects. In one aspect, I examine how the ownership ... -
Border Abolition: Responsibility to Migrants and an End to Border Violence
Deaths at the United States-Mexico border have consistently risen in recent years highlighting the inadequacies of existing border policies. Using an ethical framework of responsibility and solidarity, this thesis examines ... -
Broad Selves in Place: A Unitarian Universalist Ministry Formation Journey with the First Religious Society of Carlisle
This ministry project aimed to nurture a willingness in one particular Unitarian Universalist congregation to show up for a broader sense of interdependence: a sense rooted in its geographic, ecological place, and stretching ... -
Building a Home for Grief: Lessons Learned from an Interfaith Grief Group Created with and for the Unhoused
This project aims to encapsulate the wisdom and insights gained over the course of an 8-month Grief Group hosted by Chaplains on the Way (COTW), a small nonprofit organization that provides spiritual care to people who are ... -
Buying Livity: The Commodification of Rastafari
As the economic, military, and imperial structures which precipitated African diasporic traditions’ emergences have re-formed and evolved into modern descendent structures, we must pay special attention to how African ... -
A Call for Assemblage: Exploring Art's Transformative Power in Matters of the Heart and Mind
Creating art is the work of emotion, embodiment, pure experience, cross-time communication, and the expression of one’s greatest hopes and dreams. The intangible aftereffects of colonization penetrate every level of our ... -
A Call to Gender Justice: A Commentary on Equality and Equity in the COOLJC
(2021)This paper explores how some interpretations of scripture and other sacred texts have been used to subjugate women particularly in the COOLJC (Church of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Inc.). We will examine the historical ... -
Can Science Benefit from Gaudiya Vaishnava Ontology?
Can Science Benefit from Gaudiya Vaishnava Ontology ? In this paper, I attempt to understand and review the problematic and complex relationship between science and religion by focusing on the relationship between science ... -
Challenging La Biblia Latinoamérica: Religious Censorship, God’s Word, & Argentina’s Last Military Dictatorship
This project explores the challenging, partial banning, and suggested revising and redaction of La Biblia Latinoamérica, a biblical translation published in 1972 intended for Latin American readers. Within the first months ... -
The Church in Quarantine: How Pastors Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Impacts Their Decisions Made on Reopening and Rebuilding Their Communities
This study intends to employ an ethnographic method to explore pastors’ pandemic experiences and reveal the individual stories and reflections behind the broad, well-known quarantine trends. Rather than a summary of all ... -
Clyde Peeling's Reptiland
Clyde Peeling's Reptiland is a creative project, specifically a manuscript of poems, submitted as an MDiv Thesis. The book uses the format of the psalms as well as the interplay of first and second person speakers. This ...