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Video: Lamentations and the Song of Songs

April 05, 2013

As part of HDS Leadership Day, held April 5, 2013, HDS professors Harvey Cox and Stephanie Paulsell gave a talk on their jointly-authored book, Lamentations and the Song of Songs (Westminster John Knox Press, 2012).

Peter J. Gomes Memorial Honors 2013

April 04, 2013

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council established the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors in 2013 to celebrate the outstanding contributions that HDS alumni make to their fields, and to society, across the broad spectrum of professions and vocations that HDS...

Slideshow: Gomes Memorial Honors and Divinity Dialogues Alumni Conversation

April 04, 2013

On April 4, the HDS community celebrated the inaugural cohort of Gomes Memorial Honors recipients. Four distinguished alumni were honored: Reza Aslan, MTS '99; Susannah Heschel, MTS '76; the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, MTS '03; and Sarah Sentilles, MDiv...

Video: Divinity Dialogues: Leadership, Serving, and Giving

April 04, 2013

Following the award ceremony on April 4 for the inaugural Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors, the alumni honorees formed a panel of speakers for the third and final installment of this year's Divinity Dialogues: Conversations with the Alumni/Alumnae...

Something in a Name

April 03, 2013

Pope's choice of the name Francis suggests great concern for have-nots, Divinity School speakers say.

HDS Alumna Named Dean of Seminary of the Southwest

March 29, 2013

HDS alumna Cynthia Briggs Kittredge has been selected to lead the Seminary of the Southwest as its eighth dean and president.

David F. Holland, Scholar of American Religious History, Appointed to HDS Faculty

March 28, 2013

Renowned scholar of American religious history David F. Holland has been named Associate Professor of North American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2013. Holland is currently Associate Professor in the Department of...

Video: Romero Entre Nosotros

March 28, 2013

A conversation with Ernesto Valiente, Professor of Theology at Boston College, and the Honorable Jose E. Aleman, Consul General of El Salvador for New England. Valiente spoke to the theological foundation of Romero and its transformative effects on his...

Video: Faculty Book Event with Cheryl Giles

March 27, 2013

A panel discussion on the book The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy & Pastoral Work, coedited by Cheryl A. Giles, Francis Greenwood Peabody Professor of the Practice in Pastoral Care and Counseling at HDS.

Flying High

March 20, 2013

Jeremy Bird's work for President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign sent him all over the country: South Carolina, Ohio, Chicago, and eventually the White House. In some ways, though, the 2002 Harvard Divinity School graduate is closer than ever to...

'Still Point': A Meditation On Mothering A Dying Child

March 18, 2013

Emily Rapp, MTS '00, was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air about the memoir she has written out of her experience mothering a dying son.

Healing the Wounds of History

March 15, 2013

Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93, says that he felt "slightly ridiculous" in 1990 when, at the age of 50, he enrolled in Harvard Divinity School's master of theological studies program. His friends and colleagues at home in France didn't offer him...