HDS in the News

Ahead of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Professor Michelle Sanchez writes that if Martin Luther's reform was triggered by a critique of indulgences, John Calvin's was triggered by a critique of idolatry.

Professor Mark Jordan writes about "sorting out a few theological confusions" over a recent controversial article in Teen Vogue.

Professor Stephanie Paulsell recounts a 100-kilometer walk through the Scottish borderlands with her sister.

Professor Jacob Olupona is spearheading the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nigeria, which will train its fellows to become "excellent university teachers, researchers, scholars, and public policy analysts who will effectively engage discussions on the...

Dudley Rose, associate dean for ministry studies, discusses anger in the Bible and why claiming "righteous anger" can be dangerous.

Professor Davíd Carrasco explains the spiritual meaning of items recently found in Mexico City, once home to the Aztec empire's holiest shrines, and believed buried there 500 yearrs ago.

In an essay, Professor Jon D. Levenson reexamines Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, and asks the question: Why has modern academic culture proven so vulnerable to the forces now transforming it so fundamentally?

Ministry Innovation Fellows Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston discuss their work to understand where millennial Americans go to find community and how leaders can expand the spiritual offerings of traditional churches.

The Unitarian Universalist Association elected the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, MDiv '01, as its ninth president on June 24. Frederick-Gray is the first woman elected to lead the liberal religious movement, which includes approximately 1,000 congregations...

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., was honored for a lifetime of distinguished theological achievement by the Catholic Theological Society of America.