Stephanie Paulsell is the Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
During spring break I made a pilgrimage. With my husband and my daughter, I traced the path Virginia Woolf took through Italy in 1908.
As a graduate student, my father visited the Abbey of Gethsemani. His experiences there entered him in some permanent way.
When I first came to Harvard, the weekly worship service was recognizably Protestant but flexible and welcoming. Over the years, our students have urged us toward new ways of gathering.
Can I be a minister for others, many students wonder, if my own beliefs are in flux?
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