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Faith and Leadership

April 20, 2020

As dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), Nitin Nohria leads an organization dedicated to educating leaders who make a difference in the world. As a scholar who’s spent over 30 years on the HBS faculty, he studies human motivation, corporate...

Crossover Classics

April 16, 2020

The 2020 Gomes Honorees work at the intersection of religious and disciplinary boundaries Harvard Divinity School takes a different approach to the diversity of modern life than the “othering” that seems increasingly to roil societies around the world...

Father of Peace

April 16, 2020

Recognized this year as a Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honoree, Ephraim Isaac’s sixty-year career includes an almost absurd number of achievements. As an academic, Isaac, BD ’63, has taught at Princeton—both the university and the seminary...

To Go Beyond Fear

April 16, 2020

2020 Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honoree Milia Islam, MTS ’04, was eight years old when her family moved to the United States from Bangladesh, settling eventually in Fulton, MO. The small town was overwhelmingly white and very...

Seeking Justice for Migrants

April 16, 2020

The day that Abel Rodriguez won his first asylum case was the best of his career as an immigration attorney. He was overjoyed and his work seemed full of meaning after accompanying his client through a process that was long and stressful but ultimately...

Humans of HDS: The Crash That Left a Mark

April 15, 2020

“Bringing death in everyday life is tragic and shocking. One way I honor my crash is by trying to tell the story for good.”— Shane Snowdon, MDiv ’20

Course Reflection: Lessons from a Leader

April 14, 2020

The following personal reflection was written by Adriana Krasniansky and Ross Feehan, students in HDS 3092: “Ethical Discernment in Business Contexts.” During times of crisis, opportunities exist. This was a key message that Audrey Choi, Morgan Stanley’s...

Divinity School Students Maintain Spiritual and Religious Life While Off-Campus

April 13, 2020

After Harvard transitioned to online classes last month, Divinity School students said they are finding ways to maintain spiritual and religious engagement off-campus.

Terrified at the Resurrection: Easter during a Pandemic

April 12, 2020

"We need, once again in 2020, amid pandemic and all else that ails us, to learn how to speak resurrection-words that stop the ordinary way of things and draw people into the mystery of Life writ large and whole," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Blessings from Afar

April 10, 2020

Houseplants stand in for Lenten palms and seder cuisine gets creative as Harvard’s faith communities mark Easter and Passover from a distance.

Walking the Pandemic

April 10, 2020

Religious leaders from the HDS community share spiritual resources for hard times The COVID-19 pandemic both engenders and accentuates the greatest challenges of the human condition: loneliness, loss, suffering, and mortality. Confronted with these, the...

Love without Touch on Maundy Thursday

April 09, 2020

Matthew Potts, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature and of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School and Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church considers rituals of love and service in a season of social distancing. On Maundy Thursday in...