News

Sort & Filters

Filters

Discover Stories About
Featured Topics
Feature on Homepage
news category
news classification
news type
topic tags
Publish Date
2179 results
2179 results

Excavating the Spiritual Genius of Black People
“Mouths don’t empty themselves unless ears are sympathetic and knowing,” wrote the twentieth-century anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston in Mules and Men, her collection of African American oral histories, sermons, songs, and folk tales...
Worshiper in African American church

Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Stephanie Paulsell is a scholar of religion and a person of deep faith, but when deciding on a subject for her latest research, she chose one of literary history’s most enthusiastic atheists. “Virginia Woolf was raised by Victorian agnostics to think that...
Virginia Woolf

Becoming Better Symbionts
Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 30, 2018. ♦♦♦
Dan McKanan

We Endure
Ahmed Ragab, Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 27, 2018.
Ahmed Ragab

Why Give? Religious Roots of Charity
In the United States, the end of the year swells with charitable and giving occasions: clothing and food drives, Hanukkah and Christmas gifts, and end-of-year charitable appeals are all opportunities to be generous. But what do some of the world's major...
Religious Roots of Charity

Studying the Old by Doing Something New
HDS Professor Laura Nasrallah knows Harvard University and Princeton University well. Having earned degrees at both (AB ’91 at Princeton, MDiv ‘95, ThD ‘02 at Harvard) the Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity is familiar with the vast...
Antioch course

Jocelyne Cesari on Women, Faith, and Culture
Jocelyne Cesari, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding at HDS, discusses women rights, Islam, and democracy at the intersection of the Islamic tradition and governance during a seminar in Rome on November 14, 2018...
Jocelyne Cesari

Humans of HDS: The Language of Love
"The value of a person is inherent by virtue of the fact that the person is created in God’s image and likeness ... whether or not we are considered “productive” by society."— Nougoutna Norbert Litoing, PhD candidate
Nougoutna Norbert Litoing, PhD candidate

At the Convergence of Grace and Truth
David Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 14, 2018. ♦♦♦
David Holland