Sarah B. DrummondDevice-ivenessThe new President of the University in which the school I serve as dean is embedded came to our Divinity School’s faculty meeting this…3d ago3d ago
Sarah B. DrummondTo ObeyTo have meaning and bring about change, civil disobedience must represent adherence to higher principles, not just the act of ignoring or…Aug 30Aug 30
Sarah B. DrummondThe NebulaNever underestimate the extent to which people want to know what they’re getting themselves into.Aug 23Aug 23
Sarah B. DrummondWhat Happens When We Can’t See the Other Side of the RiverMachu Picchu, Columbia University, and Leadership Amidst UncertaintyAug 16Aug 16
Sarah B. DrummondMemory and MeaningI started seminary 30 years ago this September. Let me try to capture here the headspace I was in on July 26, 1994: I was finishing a…Jul 26Jul 26
Sarah B. DrummondHow Did We Get Here?A group of teens in Texas are suffering under a heat wave. They can’t figure out how to fill their days and, in a fit of exasperation, they…Jul 19Jul 19
Sarah B. DrummondThe “Selfishness” of Staying: The Cultural Forces Behind President Joe Biden’s Insistence He Stay…President Joe Biden will stay in the Presidential race, or he won’t, based on what he wants to do. The fact that the decision is coming…Jul 12Jul 12
Sarah B. DrummondAccounting for the UnforeseeableWedding vows. Supreme Court decisions. Church bylaws. In the backdrop behind the communities that make up our society we can detect, but…Jul 5Jul 5
Sarah B. DrummondRespectful Habits for the Unordained PresiderThis weekend I have the great privilege of presiding at the wedding of my niece Kennelly and her fiancé Brian. The two of them have many…Jun 28Jun 28
Sarah B. DrummondThe Discerning CommemoratorThis past May 28, Harvard University’s press office announced that a faculty committee had advised the President that the university should…Jun 21Jun 21
