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Virtue
Virtue. What is virtue? I can tell you that virtue is the word I misspelled in my fifth-grade spelling bee, landing me a second-place finish. I’ll never forget how to spell it now. Outside of...
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Holy Places and Justice: My Summer Spent at an African Burial Ground
I have often been in touch with the importance of place. Recognizing places of pain and places of freedom. Place is important to me. But I am not always in tune, nor do I always know the significance...
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Memory, Monuments, and Lost Cause Ideology.
How do we use monuments to shape our memory of the past? As a history major, I have studied how different people use the past and shape its memory. One of the areas that I have focused on researching...
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Notes on the Ancient Egyptian Art Wing (i.e. the Stolen Art Wing)
The other week, I was walking around the Brooklyn Museum with an artist friend of mine, she armed with her sketchbook and a pen, and I with a pencil and my notebook. We were both creating sketches and...
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Missions from a Humanities’ Perspective
We were dancing under the late afternoon sun. Sweaty and giggling, multiple little Haitian girls grabbed hold of me as we spun around, again and again. Afterward, we all dropped to the ground,...
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A Little More Empathy
This week we are resharing a post written by former fellow Eve Harbison-Ricciutti, as we contemplate the importance of empathy in times of distress and discomfort. Humanities in Place Empathy: One word...
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Unlearning, Relearning, and Redefining Reconciliation
Messiah’s theme this year is “reconciliation” and as such, it’s a topic that has come up several times over the course of the semester, whether it be during class discussions, lectures, or even just...
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Forgiveness in Our World
This year at the Center, we have been reimagining reconciliation as we prepare for our symposium in the spring. As we conversed about what reconciliation looks like in our lives, we found that...
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In Celebration of Black History Month
It has, indeed, been a long and cold January for us all, literally so for far too many of us, struggling to heat homes, caught in a system full of bureaucracy and lacking in compassion. As we enter...
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United Despite Differences: The Case for Open Dialogue Across Denominations
Growing up, “Catholic” and “Christian” were always interchangeable terms. I knew that my family and I were Catholics, and I knew that we were Christians, so I assumed that they must surely mean the...
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