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Video: Religion Around Virginia Woolf Author Discussion

December 02, 2019

Stephanie Paulsell, HDS Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies and Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, discusses her recent publication about Virginia Woolf.

Studying the DIV to Fight HIV

November 29, 2019

Barber looks at the way religion shapes HIV transmission, treatment, and prevention Darius (not his real name) grew up African American and gay in the socially conservative American South. Life wasn’t easy, but his mother loved and sheltered him. He...

Remembering Alonzo McDonald, Dean's Council Member

November 26, 2019

It is with great sadness that HDS mourns the passing of Alonzo L. McDonald, a longtime member of the Dean’s Council and a devoted friend of the School. Although not an alumnus of HDS, Mr. McDonald was a gracious partner of the School who was a member of...

Harvard Announces Search for Next Minister of Memorial Church

November 22, 2019

President Lawrence S. Bacow has named several HDS faculty members to the advisory group conducting the search for the next Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church.

Humans of HDS: Hip Hop as a Form of Narrative

November 21, 2019

"Me being a hip hop artist ties into the dissemination aspect of my academic interests because I think historically hip hop and rap has been the means by which analytic critics have been able to compose their observations into songs that are received by...

A Renewed Pledge for Student Support

November 20, 2019

As students face new financial pressures, HDS marshals new resources to meet the challenge. Space is sacred to Jarred Batchelor Hamilton. At HDS, the Master of Divinity candidate studies places that enable people to connect with one another and with the...

Groundbreaking

November 20, 2019

The fences are up, the hard hats are on, and ground has been broken on the most sweeping campus renewal effort in Harvard Divinity School’s 200-year history. When complete, the modernization and expansion of Swartz (originally Andover) Hall, the School’s...

Video: All the Time in the World: An Artist’s Awakening with Ayahuasca

November 20, 2019

Artist and author Rachel Sussman shares her physical, intellectual, and spiritual journey around the world and through time-space. FULL TRANSCRIPT: [MUSIC PLAYING] All right, thank you so much. So good evening and welcome to the Center for the Study of...

Theologians and Women of Color You Should Be Reading

November 18, 2019

HDS Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies Mayra Rivera and former Women's Studies in Religion Program Research Associate Katie Cannon are "theologians and women of color you should be reading," according to The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology...

A Chorus of Pleas

November 18, 2019

Jarred Batchelor-Hamilton, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 13, 2019.

Video: Imagining Judeo-Christian America—Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy

November 18, 2019

K. Healan Gaston, Harvard Divinity School Lecturer in American Religious History and Ethics, discusses her recent publication, Imagining Judeo-Christian America—Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

November 14, 2019

Sheila Glenn wasn't always "the Rev. Sheila Glenn." As a young adult, the pastor from New York City got swept up in the drug culture and was an addict for many years before making the choice to seek treatment. That choice led her back to church, to...