Christianity

"Seeking a basis for reconciliation between Jews and Christians has been a much-pursued enterprise over the past few centuries. For the most part, the quest has been founded upon a mutual willingness to dilute religious conviction or bracket it altogether...

"The larger the problems are around us, the deeper we must go if we are to be spiritually alive, able to manifest God’s healing power in a world that seems anything but holy," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

From a homily by Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.: "We need a God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a God who acts through and in and despite us, in a world in dire need."

"We need, once again in 2020, amid pandemic and all else that ails us, to learn how to speak resurrection-words that stop the ordinary way of things and draw people into the mystery of Life writ large and whole," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Religious leaders from the HDS community share spiritual resources for hard times The COVID-19 pandemic both engenders and accentuates the greatest challenges of the human condition: loneliness, loss, suffering, and mortality. Confronted with these, the...

Houseplants stand in for Lenten palms and seder cuisine gets creative as Harvard’s faith communities mark Easter and Passover from a distance.

Matthew Potts, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature and of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School and Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church considers rituals of love and service in a season of social distancing. On Maundy Thursday in...

"Many of us regret that churches are closed this week, services canceled or only online. But Holy Week is happening. It is not as if the last days of Jesus, and the last supper, the washing of the feet, the agony in the garden, the dying on Friday and...

HDS students discuss how lay Catholics are responding to virtual Mass.

On March 25, 2020, the HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship offered a podcast version of Noon Service on the topic “Mary’s YES, our YES!” Celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation with MDiv candidates Anne Stetson, Jonathan Robert, Joris Bürmann, Carolyn Beard...