Pope Francis: The Threat of Gnosticism within the Church
"Breaking the hold of hard Catholic Gnosticism is a step toward healing the softer Gnosticism of seekers in the wider world," writes Professor Francis Clooney.
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What Can We Learn From Art That Doesn’t Shy Away From the Past?
Anaïs Garvanian is a first-year MTS student at HDS focusing on the history of Christianity. She works as a gallery attendant at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art. In the essay below, she writes about her interpretation...
How Millennials Gather
Professor Stephanie Paulsell writes how peer-led discussions among young Muslims, Christian experiments in communal living, and pop-up Shabbat meals embody common yearnings.
New HDS Course Addresses Grief, Joy, and the 'Brokenness of the World'
When Matthew Potts, Professor of Religion and Ministry Studies, and Terry Tempest Williams, Harvard Divinity School’s 2017-18 writer-in-residence, both participated in a panel last fall, they had no idea it would lead to co-teaching a class together. The...
Video: Cultivating Resilience Through the Peaks and Valleys of Chaplaincy
The conference focused on resiliency practices upheld by seasoned chaplains from the major fields of chaplaincy. Dr. Frank Rogers delivers the keynote for “Cultivating Resilience Through the Peaks and Valleys of Chaplaincy” conference. Rogers is the...
James Comey Read a Lot of Reinhold Niebuhr. Did He Learn Anything?
K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer on American Religious History and Ethics, writes that only by following former FBI director James Comey’s efforts to be a Niebuhrian can we fully understand his recent book, A Higher Loyalty, and begin to untangle some of the...
Video: #sayhername: Recovering Zilpha Elaw’s Rebellious Evangelicalism
Kimberly Blockett, Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies and African American Religions, and Colorado Scholar from Penn State, Brandywine, presents “#sayhername: Recovering Zilpha Elaw’s Rebellious Evangelicalism." Listen
Sustaining Peace: The Role of Ethics, Law, and Policy
On May 3, the RPP Colloquium dinner series hosted by Religions and the Practice of Peace (RPP) will feature lifelong peace advocate Benjamin B. Ferencz, JD '43 Harvard Law School (HLS), the lead prosecutor and last living prosecutor of the Nüremberg...
HDS Researcher Uncovers a Long-lost Rebellious Evangelicalism
Kimberly Blockett was a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin when her thesis director, Nellie McKay, encouraged her to read a spiritual narrative from 1846 written by Zilpha Elaw, a free black woman who travelled up and down the East Coast of the...
Sugar High: Examining the Anthropological Implications of Diabetes in the Global South
When we think about diabetes, we often think of it as a biological, even scientific problem that sits snugly within the domain of doctors and healthcare professionals, impervious to the kind of investigation conducted in departments of religion and...
A Message from the Pope in the Life of a Saint
Professor Francis X. Clooney discusses the meaning of canonization of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, a steadfast voice for the poor who was gunned down in 1980.
Making Our Words into Gifts: 2018 Billings Preaching Competition
Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...
