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Video: Writing and the Art of Attention

September 12, 2018

Religious traditions insist on the importance of cultivating our faculty of attention, whether it be attention to ourselves, others, our environment, or the presence of the divine in any of these three. This panel will explore whether and how the practice...

Humans of HDS: A Happy Duality

September 11, 2018

"I love being here at HDS and in the United States and meeting new people—visiting scholars, faculty, postdocs, students, colleagues. I love learning their stories. It is what I have always wanted: to be in a very diverse environment, teaching, studying...

Gawande Confronts the Inevitable

September 10, 2018

Atul Gawande talks about the limits of "being mortal" with Harvard Divinity School Dean David Hempton at the School's annual Ingersoll Lecture and Convocation.

Values to Live By, Even in College

September 10, 2018

Dean David N. Hempton spoke during Morning Prayers at Memorial Church on September 10, 2018.

What Can Nuns and ‘Nones’ Learn from One Another?

September 07, 2018

HDS's Ministry Innovation Fellows are sponsoring the Nuns and Nones project, which seeks to bring these two groups together in order to explore new forms of community life, help millennials see models for sustainable activism and create an...

'Weathering Change'

September 06, 2018

An anthology released by Harvard’s Office for Sustainability features art and poetry by HDS and Harvard students, faculty, staff, and alumni who created the works in response to climate change.

Religion and America’s Political Conscience

September 06, 2018

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, HDS student Bo Clay chats with E. J. Dionne, renowned journalist and William H. Bloomberg Visiting Professor at HDS, about...

Terry Tempest Williams, in Thought

September 05, 2018

Writer and environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams talks about her activism, her craft, and the lessons recently learned as she begins her second year as writer in residence at Harvard Divinity School.

James H. Cone and the Mysteries of Black Social Life

September 04, 2018

Professor Todne Thomas writes about Rev. Dr. James H. Cone, the founder of Black Liberation Theology, who died in April.

Tours That Offer so Much More Than a Chance to Walk in an Author’s Shoes

August 31, 2018

Professor Stephanie Paulsell and alum Vanessa Zoltan recently led a weeklong expedition in England to study Virginia Woolf’s "To the Lighthouse."

Video: Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, and Difference

August 29, 2018

The 2017–18 WSRP Research Associates discuss their research and share their thoughts on the ethical responsibility of scholars to be engaged in the study of gender.

Shopping Period: 'Queer Theologies, Queer Religions'

August 22, 2018

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, HDS student Bo Clay chats with HDS Professor Mark Jordan, who has written extensively in the field of sexual ethics, about...