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Doctor's Passion Leads to HDS
Javad Hashmi spent the last decade of his life becoming a doctor, having recently completed medical school and residency. However, he admits that his "true passion" is, and always has been, theology. An emergency room doctor and fellow at the Center for...
Charlie Baker’s Service Signals Heft of Hispanic Church
Harvey Cox weighs in on a Boston Globe report about the eagerness of politicians to form alliances with clergy.
2014 Year in Pictures
The year 2014 was a memorable one at Harvard Divinity School. We examined timely and important issues in the world today, such as conflict in the Middle East, racial justice in the U.S., and how religious leaders can lead in the fight against climate...
At HDS, Nones Are Greater Than One
When MDiv candidate and HDS Humanists group leader Casper ter Kuile sent out a call last academic year for "humanists, agnostics, atheists, and people who identify as spiritual but not religious," a handful of students showed up eager to share their...
Clooney on Animals in Heaven
HDS professor Francis X. Clooney weighs in on the debate over Pope Francis's recent comments that "Paradise is open to all of God's creatures."
The Golden Rule, Even for Terror Suspects
On December 9, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its report on the interrogation techniques employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The committee found that the CIA...
What the Bodies Are Telling You
"When you see the rallies and the protests, listen past the words and look past the signs." The following reflection is by Irene Routte, MTS '14, who helped organize a group of HDS students and alumni who traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, this past summer...
Why We Can't Wait
"We must awaken from our false sense of comfort, and prepare the way for the one who seeks to deliver and set free. To repent is to acknowledge that something has gone awry, and we have a responsibility to confront it," HDS Professor and Minister Jonathan...
Optional Epidemic
The large number of deaths from the Ebola virus is due to the lack of sufficient medical care, said Harvard professor and physician Paul Farmer at a public forum on December 8. Farmer, who has devoted his life to bringing health care to the poorest...
New England's Largest Mosque Seeks Imam
William Suhaib Webb, HDS counselor to Muslim students, is leaving his role as the first-ever cleric of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury. HDS Lecturer on Islamic Studies, Jocelyne Cesari, comments on the growing number of US mosques...
Islam's Reformation
Krista Tippett of On Being talks to Reza Aslan, MTS '99, about Islam's reformation, and putting ISIS, and more, in perspective.
