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Daniel McKanan Named to Emerson UUA Chair

April 11, 2008

The theologian and historian Daniel Patrick McKanan has been named the inaugural incumbent of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Chair of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. McKanan, who has taught at the College of Saint Benedict...

Four Ways to Chaplaincy

March 18, 2008

During a recent week at Harvard Divinity School, a royal delegation from Nigeria strolled down the first floor of Andover Hall and into the Braun Room to meet with Dean Graham and HDS faculty. Later that same afternoon, a best-selling author and HDS...

A Conversation With Chris Hedges

March 14, 2008

In his new book, I Don't Believe in Atheists (Free Press), Chris Hedges, MDiv '83, critiques the "new atheists" and argues that their belief system is as polarizing as that of the religious right. Jonathan Beasley recently spoke with Hedges about his time...

Where the Intellectual and Spiritual Intersect

March 13, 2008

Kevin Madigan wishes he could have saved Anne Frank. Today, he repeatedly saves her memory. Madigan teaches the College freshman seminar "The Holocaust, History and Reaction."

Olupona Receives Nigerian National Order of Merit Award

February 20, 2008

On December 6, 2007, in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, Jacob Olupona stood in front of Nigeria's new president, Umaru Yar'Adua, shook his hand, bowed, then accepted the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM). One of the country's most prestigious awards...

Preaching 'the Small Voice'

February 10, 2008

It is the calling of her life: to bring forward what she describes as "the small voice." This is the shared voice of the abused and raped, the orphaned and marginalized. This is the voice that Elizabeth Siwo-Okundi recognizes, and that is the subject of...

An Innovative Preview of Life at HDS

January 15, 2008

Two years after she first thought of the idea of introducing a special program—one that would bring racial and ethnic minority undergraduate students to Harvard Divinity School to expose them to ministerial and theological graduate education—Maritza...

Finding Our Way: A Conference on the Church

December 06, 2007

On December 6-7, 2007, the Office of Ministry Studies, Harvard Divinity School, held a conference on the progressive church at the First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street. The conference program included an evening opening panel, with three featured...

John Strugnell, Professor of Christian Origins, Dies at Age 77

December 01, 2007

John Strugnell, a former editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls project and Professor of Christian Origins Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, died on November 30, 2007, at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His death came after a week...

Buddhism in Action: A Zen Master Teaches at HDS

October 01, 2007

On a bright morning in September, as the humidity lingered and autumn struggled to find its grip, a small classroom on the second floor of Divinity Hall was buzzing with chatter and anxious movement. Some 40 students were crammed into room meant for 17...

Video: Convocation 2007: On the Question of Relevance

September 17, 2007

Anne E. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, delivered the 2007-08 Convocation Address: "On the Question of Relevance: Why Twelfth-Century India and Haitian Voudou Matter." Kerry Maloney, director of religious and spiritual life, delivered the...

Kimberley C. Patton: Orientation Week Noon Service

September 15, 2007

With the greens of summer beginning to die, autumn is upon us. In the otherworldly, golden light seen only in September and October, and most astonishingly in New England, we prepare to begin again. For every scholar—that's each of you, by the way—who was...