Harvard University

Christian Union launches Harvard Ministry Campaign.    Christian Union's ministry at Harvard was started in Fall 2008, and consists of outreach to Harvard undergraduates and Harvard Business School.  Harvard College Faith & Action (HCFA) was officiallly recognized as a student organization in May 2009. For more information, contact the Director of Ministry at Harvard, Don Weiss, at Don.Weiss@Christian-Union.org. To learn how you can be part of reaching Harvard for Christ, go to: www.Christian-union.org/harvardcampaign.

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A new book by Michael Novak, Harvard '66, presents a reasoned defense of Judeo-Christian faith

Harvard Alumnus Responds to Atheists
Posted November 6, 2008
By Eileen Scott, Senior Writer for the Ivy League Christian Observer

In his recent book No One Sees God, The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers, author, theologian, and former US ambassador Michael Novak, Harvard ’66, takes on the claims of atheists Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Heather MacDonald, Yale ’78. He meets these opponents to faith on their own court of reason and delivers counterpoints with the respect and dignity of a seasoned diplomat and the confidence of a deeply rooted faith in Jesus Christ. “This book is for people who, like me, have spent long years in the dark and windswept open spaces between unbelief and belief,” said Novak.

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Rev. Eugene Rivers, who studied philosophy at Harvard, says that the Gospel “transcends race.”

Rivers Speaks for African-American Church
Posted July 18, 2008
By Catherine Elvy, Staff Writer for the Ivy League Christian Observer 

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - The Reverend Eugene Rivers, pastor of Azusa Christian Community in Boston and a leader among African-American preachers, took to the nation’s airways this spring to resolutely announce that controversial Chicago minister Jeremiah Wright does not speak for the country’s African-American religious community. Rivers, who attended Harvard University, said presidential contender Barack Obama’s former pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ is not the voice of the African-American church. “There are 65,000 black churches that represent 23 million people. They love Jesus, and they love America. They don’t trade in that kind of rhetoric.”
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Harvard's pro-abstinence group sent this valentine to first-year students

Harvard Students Celebrate True Love
Posted February 26, 2008

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS - In an effort to keep love at the heart of Valentine’s Day and relationships, Harvard’s pro-abstinence group, True Love Revolution, coordinated a freshmen mailing with a clear message. The organization mailed 1680 Valentine cards to freshmen with the message: “Celebrate Love, Celebrate Life, Celebrate You…Why wait?  Because you’re worth it.”  A chocolate heart was included with each card.  A similar mailing was sent to all female members of the freshman class and “succeeded in raising awareness of the message of abstinence on the Harvard campus.” The outreach was partially funded by a Christian Union partnership grant. 

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