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Being. On Campus.
Hindu monastics bring Vedanta to HDS and gain new perspectives on their tradition—and others Just like any student at Harvard, Swami Sarvapriyananda had dreams about what he would do when he grew up. As he sat in a classroom in Rockefeller Hall on Harvard...
Sadhak Akshar

Politics of the Unseen
Terry Tempest Williams, HDS’s writer-in-residence, and film producer Geralyn White Dreyfous have curated a special film series that is open to the Harvard community as well as the general public, and includes the chance for audience members to engage in...
The Great Hack

Attending to Animals
What would it look like if we didn’t put human beings at the center of creation? That’s the question that Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies Janet Gyatso explores with her students in “Knowing Animals” and “Forms of Life,” two HDS courses that...
Gyatso and cat

On Leaving the City of Refuge
Shane Snowdon, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 25, 2019.
MDiv candidate Shane Snowdon. Photo: Shane Snowdon, courtesy

Breaking the Cycle of Systemic Racism
In an interview with the Public Health Post, HDS Visiting Professor Cornell William Brooks talks about his career in activism and the fight for social justice.
Cornell William Brooks

Goodness and the Literary Imagination
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created many memorable characters—from Sula and Beloved to Frank Money. Her notions of goodness and mercy shown in these characters also reflect her understanding of the sacred and the human spirit. The religious...
Toni Morrison

Video: Anne E. Monius Memorial Service
HDS faculty and friends remembered Professor Anne E. Monius during a memorial service on October 11, 2019. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, passed away on August 3, 2019. FULL TRANSCRIPT: [INDIAN MUSIC PLAYING] Good...
Dean David Hempton speaks at the memorial service for Professor Anne E. Monius

Paulsell Announces 'Pilgrimage' Theme for Memorial Church
“My job, in part, is to help people enter that liminal space of transition and think about not just what they want the next minister to be, but who they want to be as a community,” said HDS Professor Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister in the...
Professor Stephanie Paulsell

Expressing Love
David Diaz, MDiv candidate and fellow in the Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 9, 2019.
David Diaz