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Weaving Interfaith Community at Harvard
Monday, August 31, was an auspicious day at Harvard Divinity School. It was not only our Convocation, the formal opening of the new academic year, but also, at the start of 2015-16, a step closer to the actual bicentennial of the School. It was also an...
Students at CSWR

The Troublesome Subject of Theology
Professor Harvey Cox wants HDS students and his fellow faculty members to be troublemakers. After all, it's part of the job. "Theology by its very nature is, or should be, troublesome. If theology is doing its job applying the teachings of the prophets...
Harvey Cox

The Wayfarer
In 1871, Thomas Nast drew an editorial cartoon about Catholic immigration to the United States. Entitled "The American River Ganges," it depicts bishops as crocodiles emerging from the ocean on all fours, scales on their backs and mitres transformed into...
Professor Catherine Brekus helps students forge pathways to knowledge

Power of Performance
Noah Van Niel is strong. During his time as an undergraduate, Van Niel played for the Harvard Crimson football team throwing blocks as a 250-pound fullback. He's also strong in voice, having performed and studied as an operatic tenor at the Academy of...
Tenor/fullback Noah Van Niel, MDiv '15, brings strength to faith leader ship

The Heart of Leadership
The students in HDS alumnus Tom Anderson’s class on social ethics at Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU) Weatherhead School of Management are hard-driving business leaders. They’ve been successful in a hypercompetitive marketplace that often provides...
Tom Anderson, MTS '98, brings ethics to business, higher education

Circles Rise Together
Angie Thurston grew up acting, writing, and making visual art in Boulder, Colorado. So, when she came to Brown University as an undergraduate, she was thrilled to study with the Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel. But while she learned a lot...
Angela Thurston combines art and spirit to leaven twenty-first-century community

A Passion for Justice. A Passion for Peace.
As a soldier in WWII, Ben Ferencz, JD '43, participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, sites of some of the worst atrocities in human history. When the war was over, as chief prosecutor of one of the Nuremberg trials, he brought to justice...
Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz makes HDS initiative part of his effort to end war

Hempton Traces Europe's New Religious Landscape
To Dean David N. Hempton, Europe has lost touch with the roots of its culture and is at a crossroads. The once- Christian continent is in an identity crisis amid an increasingly secular and interconnected world.
Dean David Hempton

Video: 50 Years of Harvey Cox
Legendary HDS professor Harvey Cox arrived at the Divinity School in 1965. In 2015, we reflect on his 50 years of teaching, 50 years of scholarship, 50 years of mentoring, and 50 years of friendship. In sum, 50 years of Harvey Cox.
HDS Professor Harvey Cox

Video: HDS Convocation 2015: The Babylonian Captivity of Theology

On August 31, legendary professor Harvey Cox delivered the 2015 Convocation address. Titled "The Babylonian Captivity of Theology," Cox encouraged his fellow faculty members and Harvard Divinity School graduate students to be troublemakers. If theology is...
Harvey Cox delivered the 2015 Convocation address

Advice to the Incoming Class
HDS welcomed scores of new graduate students to campus during Orientation, which kicked off the week of August 24. The 2015-16 incoming class includes approximately 120 students who represent about 20 religious traditions. They come from 32 states and...
Alexa Kutler and Roberta Robison