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What Makes Life Real
In Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the title character agonizes over a dreadful thought as he nears the end of his life: “What if my entire life, my entire conscious life, was not the real thing?” Scotty McLennan asks his students to ponder the...
Scotty McLennan

A Powerful Form of Love
The Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray felt called to Arizona at a time when the state was ground zero for the controversy on immigration that today dominates the headlines. It didn’t take long for the issue to become personal. The Unitarian Universalist...
Frederick-Gray

Harvard Divinity Faculty Presenting at AAR, SBL Annual Meetings
Several Harvard Divinity School faculty members will be in San Diego, California in late November to present during the 2019 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings. The conference, which takes place November 23-26...
San Diego, California

For Intellectual Leadership, Professional Service, and Ministry
HDS students develop a deep and intellectually rigorous understanding of the world’s religious traditions and the ways in which they shape the lives of people everywhere. They learn to bridge divides of faith, culture, gender, and more by participating...
HDS students at Commencement

Three Monastics, Two Popes, and This Priest: Life at Harvard
"So there it is: three monastics, two popes, one priest, all in two days, grounded in the HDS and Harvard realities of today. Such events are outside the rightfully ordinary mainstream of Catholic community and ministry, to be sure, but it is good that...
Professor Frank Clooney

Video: Jerusalem: City of the Book
What might it look like to see Jerusalem, with its cross-hatched encounters between people of diverse faiths and cultures, as a city of the book?
Merav Mack

'Our Lives Are Short, Our Arts Long'
Mark Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 7, 2019.
Professor Mark Jordan

Picturing a 'New Human Family'
The destruction of one of the world’s great civilizations. The slaughter of thousands of indigenous people—and the enslavement of thousands more. These atrocities were the consequence of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1519. Yet Davíd Carrasco...
Professor Carrasco

Video: We Have Always Been Animists
Graham Harvey, professor of religious studies at The Open University (UK), discusses animism and how our relations are damaged by ongoing efforts to separate (human) culture from ‘nature’ and humans from other species.
Graham Harvey

Video: On Being a Hindu Monastic: Personal Journeys
A conversation with the three Hindu monastics visiting HDS this year, each representing a different Hindu tradition: Swami Sarvapriyananda (Ramakrishna Mission), Brahmacharini Shweta Chaitanya (Chinmaya Mission), and Sadhak Akshar–Guru: Mahant Swami...
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Dean David N. Hempton on Belonging at Harvard
A few years ago, Harvard President Drew Faust commissioned a University-wide Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. The presidential charge delivered to the committee, under the title “From Diversity to Belonging,” states that: “ A community that draws on...
David N. Hempton