Harvard Memorial Church Hosts Event for ‘Reading Taylor Swift as a Sacred Text’
“open to people from all religious, ethical, and spiritual backgrounds”
Another self-own from Harvard. Why do they do things like this?
The College Fix reports:
Harvard Memorial Church to host ‘Reading Taylor Swift as a Sacred Text’ event
A Harvard Memorial Church student program is slated to host a “Reading Taylor Swift as a Sacred Text” tonight. The Tuesday evening event is organized by the Memorial Church Student Program Coordinator & Multifaith Engagement fellow.
“What can reading the texts that matter to us as sacred tell us about ourselves and our lives? Discover a new way to engage with the Taylor Swift canon that honors the important emotional and spiritual role her work plays in many peoples’ lives. Bring your favorite Taylor Swift song and we’ll bring the sacred reading practices,” the event description states.
The RSVP page also states the gathering is “open to people from all religious, ethical, and spiritual backgrounds.”
“We will be using Lectio Divina, an ancient Christian monastic reading practice, but the insights you gain from this practice will not necessarily be connected to the Christian tradition or ‘religious’ in nature. Students are invited and encouraged to bring insights and wisdom from their own lives, traditions, and backgrounds.”
Harvard is no stranger to Swift adoration.
It offered a class dedicated to the pop star last spring. That class even hosted an all-nighter to review the release of her new album “The Tortured Poets Department.”
As The College Fix previously reported, the University of Florida’s Honors Program offered a course on Swift last semester.
An entire academic conference has also been dedicated to Swift in the past, zeroing in on topics such as gender, capitalism and feminism.
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When I was in college fifty years ago, an event such as this would have been done as a joke (today a troll) and likely prohibited by most institutions. Today, Harvard will probably grant credits to the attendees. The students and administration at Harvard are idiots. Hire Harvard grads at your own risk. Smart people won’t.
I hope you’re referring to RECENT Harvard grads.
Fifty years ago I had to attend services at Mem Church because I was in the choir. Services were as non-denominational as possible, and readings from great poets and philosophers were common.
Gandhi, Confucius, etc have now been replaced by Taylor Swift and other megastars as the great poets and philosophers of the day. Harvard has gotten so woke that they can’t tell the difference between “popular” and “great.”
Prepare for a local holy war: just down the street from Harvard, MIT’s sacred text is Tom Swift.
Seriously, though, I wonder if this is a ploy by the School of Divinity to inveigle students to learn something about Lectio Divina, using the old “relevance” ploy?
When I was in high school, instead of having us dissect dry prose and poetry by “dead white fe/males,” they first had us delve for the deeper meaning of lyrics of The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel. It wasn’t immensely effective, as the intersection of the life experiences of rock stars with 15yo New England Christians was barely less null than with 19th century British aristocracy.
The NY Yankees collapsed after 1964. It was weird for me as a child because the pinstripes were the same, the stadium was the same, etc., but the team was truly awful. And then two of their starting pitchers traded wives, literally.
Harvard seems to be using those comically-awful Yankees for its template. We shall see what new low they can achieve next.
Ah…..1964 was the best year to be a Cardinals fan. Good times.
Clown college.
The humanities departed at harvard is dumpster fire.