After completing the review process for over 300 paper proposals submitted to the 2013 "Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion," I am happy to announce that 120 graduate students and early-career scholars will gather to present their research at...
HDS professor Janet Gyatso is helping to redefine Buddhist studies for a new generation, while deepening Buddhism's engagement with contemporary society.
The HDS alumna's debut poetry collection "The Weather and Our Tempers" has gotten the attention of the Wall Street Journal. Learn how her academic work and poetry mingle.
July 15, 2013 marked the 175th anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous "Divinity School Address," delivered to the HDS graduating class of 1838. The speech outraged many of Emerson's contemporaries but is today seen by many as a landmark in American...
"Pray without ceasing, Jesus teaches, keep knocking at the door....It is through prayer that both we, and God, become who we were meant to be." Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies at HDS, delivered the Sunday Sermon...
In July 2013, HDS Dean David N. Hempton received an honorary doctorate of literature from Queen's University Belfast, his undergraduate alma mater, where he later returned as a lecturer in modern history. In front of Queen's faculty, staff, and students...