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What Does It Mean to be Awake?

June 05, 2018

The following talk was given on April 28, 2018, by new HDS graduate Melissa Lago at the Bilbao International Literature Festival. This year’s theme was, “Return to nature, a literary utopia,” which sought to pay tribute to Henry David Thoreau and to...

The Afterlife of Ideas

May 24, 2018

MDiv candidates Lindsey Franklin and Denson Staples were selected by their student colleagues, faculty, and staff as the class speakers for HDS Commencement 2018. The following remarks were delivered by Franklin and Staples at the Diploma Awarding...

On the Joy of Saying I Don’t Know

May 24, 2018

Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura Nasrallah was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Commencement Service on May 23, 2018. Below are her remarks: Reverend Professor Walton, hard-working Dean Hempton, beloved colleagues...

Video: 2018 Diploma Awarding Ceremony at HDS

May 24, 2018

Congratulations to the Harvard Divinity School class of 2018, who received their diplomas during the HDS Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 25, 2017. Lindsey Franklin, MDiv ’18, and Denson Staples, MDiv ’18, gave the student address. Listen

What Jesuits Do, and What Ross Douthat Is Missing

May 21, 2018

"Ross Douthat’s To Change the Church is a highly readable but to my taste over-dramatized account of the papacy of Francis," writes Professor Frank Clooney.

Do More People Believe in God in Trump's America?

May 16, 2018

Vice President Mike Pence said "faith in America is rising once again," but according to HDS Ministry Innovation Fellow Casper ter Kuile, it depends on how we define "faith."

Cornel West Reflects on the Life of James Cone

May 10, 2018

On May 7, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West spoke at the funeral service of the Rev. James H. Cone. Cone was a central figure in the development of black liberation theology in the 1960s and ’70s who argued for racial justice and...

Putting the Power of Words Into Action

May 08, 2018

Working with low-income children helped re-write the future of new HDS grad Nicole Powell.

Building a Life of Service

May 07, 2018

After studying religion at Harvard, new grad Haley Curtin plans to "effect bigger change" in the world outside of Cambridge.

Dancer Moves from Stage to the Study of Religion

May 04, 2018

During shopping week, Benjamin Grimm ducked into Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana Eck’s “Religion in India: Texts and Traditions in a Complex Society,” his sixth class of the morning. “I fell in love with it,” he says, laughing....

Amoris Laetitia and Marriage: ‘Joy of Love’ or Dangerous Heresy?

May 01, 2018

Pope Francis’s post-synodal apostolic exhortation on love in the family, Amoris Laetitia, has been received as “groundbreaking” by his supporters and schismatic by his critics. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat asserts that the Pope’s position on...

Humans of HDS: Something I'm Proud Of

May 01, 2018

“The idea of Shabbat—the way that I’ve always taken it to heart, or what makes me feel better when I’m so overwhelmed with work and asking, “How can I take a day off?”—is the guiding principle that you spend six days changing the world and then one day...