Alumni News and Activities

After Harvard, Young Chicagoan Has New Campaign to Change Black Church Attitudes toward LGBTQ People

March 15, 2021

With a $40,000 grant, Don Abram, MDiv '19, has embarked on a project he calls “Pride in the Pews.” He plans to collect 66 stories of Black queer Christians—66, he notes, is the number of books in the Bible—in the hopes that the stories will open closed minds.

Video: Intersections of Spirituality, Social Justice, and Climate Change

March 10, 2021

A reflection and panel discussion on how and where spirituality, social justice, and climate change come together and intersect within faith traditions.... Read more about Video: Intersections of Spirituality, Social Justice, and Climate Change

Humans of HDS: Accepted Inside, Rejected Outside

March 8, 2021

“I had not intended to go on into a ministry. I really had intended to take a year out and go back into foreign service, but after I had been there for about six months studying, I knew that this was the place where I wanted to be. I felt my calling was in theology and ministry.”... Read more about Humans of HDS: Accepted Inside, Rejected Outside

'How Do We Shatter That Denial?'

January 25, 2021

Harvard Divinity School Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West and Dartmouth College Professor Susannah Heschel, MTS '76, discuss the question: are there moral lessons for citizens and nations following last week's inauguration?

At Twelfth Baptist Church, King Celebration Resounds with the Political Moment

January 12, 2021

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice, and yet last night I found myself in 2021—56 years later—still asking the question King asked,” the Rev. Willie Bodrick II, MDiv '14, said in a recent sermon. “How long?”

How to Make Your Pandemic Holiday Feel like a Holiday

December 18, 2020

Ministry Innovation Fellow Casper ter Kuile discusses filling reimagined celebrations with the importance, joy, and light mayhem that we yearn for in this season.

What Really Matters

November 30, 2020

"Our lives are so fragile. They always have been. We are always living on the brink, on the edge, at the threshold. Every single day carries the possibility of our last judgment. Every breath is a prelude to the apocalypse. As the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil once wrote: 'Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling,'" says Wilson Hood, MDiv '19.

The Rev. Liz Walker, MDiv '05, speaking at HDS in 2015.

Efforts Intensify to Determine Those First in Line to Receive a COVID-19 Vaccine—and Build Trust in Skeptical Communities

November 16, 2020

“I was a little surprised that so many people in my community don’t trust this vaccine," said the Rev. Liz Walker, MDiv '05, pastor of Roxbury Presbyterian Church and a member of Governor Charlie Baker’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group. “I am talking to parishioners to try and get people the real information and then they can make wise choices."

A Need to Be All In

November 12, 2020

Rachel Leiken, MDiv '20, Multifaith Engagement Fellow at the Memorial Church, writes about deepening her commitment to social justice, community building, and university chaplaincy.... Read more about A Need to Be All In

On the Path of Love and Justice

November 9, 2020

Melissa Bartholomew fosters diversity, inclusion, and belonging at HDS

Melissa Wood Bartholomew, MDiv ’15, has been here before—the horrifying event, the protests, the renewed pledges, soon forgotten, to combat racism. While she has concerns about whether the current movement for racial justice will be sustained, she says this time feels different. ... Read more about On the Path of Love and Justice

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Alumni News and Activities

After Harvard, Young Chicagoan Has New Campaign to Change Black Church Attitudes toward LGBTQ People

Video: Intersections of Spirituality, Social Justice, and Climate Change

Humans of HDS: Accepted Inside, Rejected Outside

'How Do We Shatter That Denial?'

At Twelfth Baptist Church, King Celebration Resounds with the Political Moment

How to Make Your Pandemic Holiday Feel like a Holiday

What Really Matters

Efforts Intensify to Determine Those First in Line to Receive a COVID-19 Vaccine—and Build Trust in Skeptical Communities

A Need to Be All In

On the Path of Love and Justice

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