Harvard Divinity School Summer Reading List Recommends Books on Transgenderism, Reparations
“books ranging from a biography on a genderless, 18th century preacher, to novels exploring contemporary racism in America”
John Harvard was a minister. Do you think this was what he had in mind?
Campus Reform reports:
Harvard Divinity School summer reading list includes books on ‘transgender evangelist,’ and reparations
On June 21, Harvard Divinity School (HDS), Harvard’s home for theological studies, released a summer reading list that recommended books ranging from a biography on a genderless, 18th century preacher, to novels exploring contemporary racism in America.
The list features a recommendation from Jude Sylvan, a 2020 HDS alumna and “nonbinary” minister at First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, who wrote in a 2018 HDS bulletin that the “desire of the later Gospel writers to take up the pen parallels the contemporary phenomenon of fanfiction.”
Sylvan created Beloved King: A Queer Bible Musical, and has delivered sermons titled, “Joseph and the Amazing Pretty Princess Dress,” “Abortion & the Bible,” and “Memorial Day… It’s Complicated.” Sylvan has also written a piece in defense of “sex workers,” arguing that “the marginalization of sex work and sex workers is a sickness of Patriarchy and of White Supremacy.”
In the HDS summer reading list, Sylvan recommends students read The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America by Paul B. Moyer, and Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend by Herbert A. Wisbey.
Both books center on Rhode Island Quaker Jemima Wilkinson, a “transgender evangelist” who died in 1819 and was allegedly reincarnated as a genderless messenger of God.
Terrence L. Johnson, a professor of African American Religious Studies at HDS, is another contributor to the summer reading list.
Some of the books Johnson suggests for students are The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander, Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfhemi O. Táíwò, and Hell of a Book: A Novel by Jason Mott. These works explore topics like American racism, reparations for black people, and purported systemic problems of policing.
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I’m just a simple layperson, so please forgive my ignorance
But can anybody name 3 positive contributions to society that Harvard has made? In the last 25 years?
— in economics?
— opioid addiction?
— divorce?
— suicide?
— rape/assault/murder?
I vaguely recall a study out of Harvard several years ago, that Black arrests and convictions lined up consistently with the proportion of crimes reported as done by Blacks, at roughly a third – so no racial discrimination. I also recall liberals trying to discredit the study any way they could.
Thank you
The thing is — I keep hearing how elite these places are.
And yet, near as I can tell — they do not contribute anything elite that improves anything.
So I wonder:
What has Harvard divinity school or its faculty ever done that anybody would like to highlight? that is elite
Not just Harvard divinity and not just Harvard.
I’m guessing that readers of L.I. are generally pretty bright:
Please can anybody point out something constructive innovative that any elite college or university has done ? built? organized?
Have any of these elites used their elite gifts to demonstrate
— reduce child abide
— reduce misery
— improve income
— reduce litter
— reduce traffic jams
— improve literacy
Like many, I look to my elites for guidance.
Maybe there is a guid somewhere? How To Live A Better Life, As Demonstrated By America’s Elite Institutions
This is a glaring example of educating morality and common sense out of people.
I take the Bible straight up, instead of the “edumacated” version spewed by the elitists and their wannabes.