Todne Thomas, Assistant Professor of African American Religions at HDS and Suzanne Young Murray Assistant Professor at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 8, 2019.... Read more about Harriet Tubman's Sense of Self
The Rev. Dr. Rena Joyce Weller Karefa-Smart, the first black woman to earn a doctor of theology degree from HDS in 1976 and a leader in the international movement to bring churches closer together, died on Jan. 9. She was 97.
Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program at HDS, discusses the Spiritualism movement in America during the nineteenth century, and how it helped bring women—and reformist ideas—into the public sphere.
Religious leaders "have little support and little training in dealing with issues related to sexual and gender-based violence" (SGBV), concludes the new "Interrogating the Silence" report from the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School.... Read more about New Research on Responses to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
