Rev. Peter J. Gomes - The Lively Oracles of God

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Peter John Gomes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 22, 1942, to a Cape Verdean father, Peter Lobo Gomes, and a devoted mother and musician, Orissa White. He grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools, was ordained a minister at the First Baptist Church, served as president of the Pilgrim Society, and maintained a residence not far from where he is buried.
Peter graduated from Bates College in 1965 and the Harvard Divinity School in 1968, and for two years worked as an instructor and administrator at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama before being called back to Harvard in 1970 to serve as Assistant Minister at Memorial Church. In 1974, he was elevated to his seat as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister.
In his forty years on campus, Peter presided at the life passages of individuals, of families, and of the University as a whole. He was the calm at the center of the student crisis in the early 1970s and at an anti-discrimination rally in 1991, where he bravely identified himself as “a Christian who happens as well to be gay,” despite misgivings over being fixed with labels. Instead, Peter was the fixture at our convocations and commencements, weddings and funerals. He served five Harvard presidents, knew them all well, and taught the popular courses “History of Harvard and Its Presidents” and “The Christian Bible and Its Interpretation.” Peter died in Boston at age 68 on February 28, 2011, just as Harvard was gearing up to celebrate its 375th anniversary.

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