Faith Grazes On Harvard Yard

Faculty, staff, and students gathered round. (Do Diana Eck and Reverend Gomes have the same eyeglasses?) (C. Fernsebner)

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As promised, Hollis Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox celebrated his retirement yesterday by exercising his ancient right to graze his cow on Harvard Yard.

The Reverend Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, gave an invocation, praising Cox, early Harvard donor Thomas Hollis, and handsome Jersey cow Faith—all of them good Baptists. One of Cox's students, Travis Allen Stevens, delivered a Latin oration concerning Faith's dissertation, Ager Secularis: Movere ad Deum et Ruminare, which "questions human-centric modalities so present in contemporary theological conversations."

Processional music was played by a band consisting entirely of tubas.

After the jump: a video of Faith grazing.