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Could the Fire of Notre Dame Unite a Deeply Divided France?

April 19, 2019

Professor Werner de Saeger, MTS ’11, is a theologian and legal scholar and teaches at the University of Cambridge and PXL University of Applied Sciences in Belgium. ♦♦♦ As I walked out of the Sorbonne library on Monday evening, April 15, just before 7 pm...

Clooney: Pope Benedict Misses An Interreligious Step

April 18, 2019

"If we are to learn well in the interreligious world in which we live, we must do more than appreciate and cherish our own tradition," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney.

'Not Sorry' for Bringing New Meaning to Beloved Books

April 18, 2019

Vanessa Zoltan is not sorry for co-founding a podcast that treats J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books as sacred texts. She’s not sorry for her new show, “ Hot and Bothered,” which encourages listeners to write and find meaning in romance novels. Most of all...

Exploring Spirituality and Civic Life

April 18, 2019

HDS Senior Lecturer Dan McKanan’s work outlines anthroposophical teachings concerned with the biological and spiritual interconnectedness of agriculture.

Dean David N. Hempton: An Ode to Notre Dame

April 17, 2019

Last month I visited Paris over spring break, partly on school business and partly to visit some of the sights in one of my favorite cities. I made a pilgrimage to the Montparnasse cemetery to visit its beautiful Jewish section, and the graves of...

HDS Professor Mark Jordan Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 17, 2019

HDS Professor Mark Jordan has been named a member of the 2019 class of national and international leaders elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Reflections from Krister Stendahl’s Academic Neighbor

April 15, 2019

In November 2018, the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature sponsored a session “Krister among the Jews and Gentiles,” to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Krister Stendahl, who taught at HDS from 1954-1989, with a hiatus to...

Video: Gross National Happiness Conference

April 13, 2019

How do you measure and govern for happiness? On April 13, 2019, an international conference of academics, practitioners, politicians, corporate leaders and spiritual leaders at the Harvard Divinity School sought answers to the question of universal...

Video: Indigenous Guardianship, Nature, and Peace

April 11, 2019

This monthly public series, convened by Dean David N. Hempton of HDS, brings together a cross-disciplinary RPP Working Group of faculty, experts, students, and alumni from across Harvard University and the local area to explore topics and cases in...

Lenten Upset, for the Sake of the World

April 10, 2019

"Such is the Christian story this Lent ... through Jewish or Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist eyes, or in other venerable traditions, whichever exposes us, illumines us, then gives us back our true selves," writes Professor Frank Clooney.

Video: 2019 Billings Preaching Prize

April 10, 2019

HDS students Mary Balkon, Aric Flemming, and Jade Sylvan deliver sermons for the Billings Preaching Prize Competition during Noon Service on April 10, 2019. The competition winner was Jade Sylvan. In addition, Isaac Martinez, the Massachusetts Bible...

Terry Tempest Williams on Nature Writing

April 09, 2019

"I was thinking about being here at the Divinity School, one of the things that has inspired me is it's not just what we believe, but how we behave. And I really see a strong moral imperative among our young people," says Terry Tempest Williams, HDS...