HDS in the News

On the morning of Aug. 20, 1965, the fates of Ruby Sales, a 17-year-old black activist from Georgia, and Jonathan Daniels, a white Episcopalian seminarian from New Hampshire, crossed in the struggle against segregation in the South. That day, Daniels gave...

Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project, provides insight to Politifact, which examined a claim that the U.S. Education Department introduced an Islamic indoctrination program for public schools.

The Harvard Gazette interviewed Professor Ousmane Kane to illuminate the roots and influence of Islam in Africa, which is home to nearly 30 percent of the world’s Muslims . On April 3, at 5:15 pm, at the CSWR, he will discuss his book, “Beyond Timbuktu...

During a panel event at the Divinity School, experts in criminal justice policy discussed the racial, moral, and ethical implications of mass incarceration in the United States.

Professor Cornel West discusses the course he is teaching this semester, in which he's asking big questions about "how to revitalize the Democratic possibilities within the empire."

Women's Studies in Religion Program Research Associate Rosalyn LaPier writes that for Native Americans, water does not only sustain life–it is sacred.

Professor Kevin Madigan discusses how the meaning of the word “Crusader” has evolved since the College of the Holy Cross adopted it in 1925.

Longtime HDS professor Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus, passed away on February 26 at the age of 90.

Ministry Innovation Fellow Casper ter Kuile shares his honest opinion on the changing shape of American religion and how millennials are creating new forms of spiritual community.

Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project, discusses the ways religion can be taught to encourage religious literacy.