The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, a nationally influential Baptist minister and advocate for tolerance who oversaw Harvard University's Memorial Church for more than 30 years, has died. He was 68. Gomes died ...

The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, theologian, author, Harvard professor of christian morals and minister at Boston's Memorial Church, died Feb. 28 from complications arising from a stroke. Dr. Sharon Groves, ...

If during your tenure as a student at Harvard you did not encounter the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, you have not had the quintessential Harvard experience. Noted for his activism to rebut biblical ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, a nationally influential Baptist minister and advocate for tolerance who oversaw Harvard University's Memorial Church for more than 30 years, has died. He ...

The Root’s co-founder and editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., a longtime friend of the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes, has paid tribute to the Harvard minister in a New Yorker essay, calling Gomes a ...

With the death of Reverend Peter J. Gomes on Monday, Harvard has lost one of its most celebrated figures—a man loved for his oratory, his staunch advocacy for equality, and his three and a half decade ...

The guest preacher opened his sermon with a rather long explication of Augustine's contrast be­tween blessings and consolations. It was probably the first time most of the listeners at Duke Chapel had ...

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1942, The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes is an American Baptist minister ordained to the Christian Ministry by The First Baptist Church of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

As minister of Harvard University's Memorial Church, Gomes was a popular preacher well before The Good Book became a bestseller in 1996. Several subsequent books were, or read like, first-rate sermon ...