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Learning to Love Your Enemies: A Conversation with Rev. Matthew Potts
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What does it really mean to “love your enemies”? In this episode of the Harvard Religion Beat, host Jonathan Beasley talks with Rev. Matthew Potts—Professor of Religion and Literature at Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard’s Memorial Church—about forgiveness, anger, and living with harm without letting it define us.
Edited by Eden Olayiwole.
Sermon audio courtesy of the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Intro and outro music: “How Did This Happen,” courtesy of Extreme Music (Art House 3).
Full episode transcript: https://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/11/25/learning-love-your-enemies-matthew-potts
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