Work and Prayer

It was a great honour to be invited to deliver this convocation ad dress.It is commencement day when everyone feels rightly giddy with success.But I want to talk about failure.Failure!Yes.But let me tell you how I arrived at this curious and seemingly inappropriate theme.I was a little worried when I discovered that I would be speak ing to the Faculties of Religion and of Management at the same time.What about not being able to serve both God and Mammon?What should my resounding you-are-the-leaders-of-tomorrow, etc. com mencement message be?At my home university, my office at the Divinity School is in a building that lies on the far northern comer of the Harvard precinct, in Cambridge but just barely.The Business School is situated at the ex act opposite end, over a mile away, across the Charles River.I have wondered at times if the spatial distance between the two symbolizes a psychological gulf as well, a distance between world views

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