Heather Beasley Doyle
Journalist, Writer and Editor at Freelance
Freelance writer (equity, religion, sustainability, the outdoors, university pubs). @NewhouseSU alum, biker, hiker, crossword puzzler.
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1 month ago |
uuworld.org | Heather Beasley Doyle
In the summer of 2023, Rev. Elizabeth Bukey Saunter was sitting at the UUA General Assembly in Pittsburgh, listening to a slew of congregational initiatives, from combating fascism and expanding education to talking about safety. But at her 98-member congregation, First Church in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, attendance remained down post-pandemic, and religious education and adult programming were struggling too.
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1 month ago |
belmontvoice.org | Heather Beasley Doyle
More than 20 years ago, as Susan Eaton began her graduate school research on the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO), she noticed something. “There was a lot written about ‘What are the effects of METCO? Is METCO bad or is it good?’” said Eaton, director of Brandeis University’s Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy. “But you know, they never actually talked to the people who took part in it.
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Mar 26, 2024 |
brookline.news | Heather Beasley Doyle
Since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, eight pairs of health and computer science graduate students have found solace together in their labs at Israeli universities. Every day, the pairs, each including one Israeli and one Palestinian from the West Bank or Gaza, check in with each other, ask about each other’s well-being and about their families. They work closely and share deep bonds. Yet the conversation doesn’t stray to the conflict beyond lab walls or the geopolitics that ignited it.
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Feb 2, 2024 |
belmontvoice.org | Heather Beasley Doyle
By Heather Beasley Doyle, Belmont Voice correspondentWhen Joe O’Donnell’s family walked into Harvard Memorial Church for his celebration of life service last month, it wasn’t a typical funeral scene. “Seven hundred people [were] there eating candy bars in front of us,” O’Donnell’s older daughter, Kate O’Donnell, said. “Which he would have gotten such a kick out of.”Kate said the candy bars, Hershey’s milk chocolate with almonds, were O’Donnell’s calling card.
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Oct 24, 2023 |
brookline.news | Heather Beasley Doyle
Whenever Tom Brady is driving, he always looks up at the trees. “It never stops,” he said. Despite his football-famous name, this Tom Brady isn’t a professional quarterback. He’s the town of Brookline’s arborist, conservation administrator and tree warden. He spends much of his time examining the tree canopy through his windshield. Arborists, he said, can’t turn off that leafy vigilance. “It’s always on.
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RT @EvaDienel: This moving story by my good friend Heather has made me think more deeply about a kind of burial that would match my values…
Before reporting on green burial for @episcopal_news, I only vaguely understood the alternatives to embalming and cremation. And I had no idea that they could mean so much to bereaved families. https://t.co/bDzEecZKs4
RT @episcopal_news: Q&A: GreenFaith's Fletcher Harper on moral discomfort and changing to address the climate crisis together https://t.co/…
