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Progressing into Mindfulness

February 06, 2018

Chris Berlin is a counselor to Buddhist students and Instructor in Ministry and Pastoral Counseling at HDS. He is part of a musical group consisting of several HDS alumni and students called Satigata. The group, formed at HDS, recently released an album...

The Danger and Opportunity of Jewish-Christian Dialogue

February 05, 2018

Professor Jon Levenson explores the purpose of interfaith discourse, the importance of the theological disagreements between Jews and Christians, and the dangers of suppressing religious disagreement in the name of cooperation.

On Men in Church

February 05, 2018

Last week, a fellow HDS alumnus, Presbyterian pastor and author C. R. Wiley wrote a piece that appeared on the Christian blog Patheos, under the title “On Getting and Keeping Masculine Men in Church.” I was interested to read the piece because, as a man...

Lost in the Middle: Responding to President Monson's Death

February 01, 2018

Natalie Cherie Campbell is a second year MTS candidate and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She wrote this reaction piece following the January 2 passing of Thomas S. Monson, the president of the LDS church. ♦♦♦ Upon the death...

HDS/HKS Initiative Will Study Religion, Conflict, and Peace

January 31, 2018

Religion is a powerful influence on human affairs, nowhere more visibly than in its capacity to help both ignite and resolve conflict. Now a new collaboration between Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Kennedy School will enable scholars to study the...

From the Professor's Desk: Spring Term 2018

January 29, 2018

Professor Jonathan Walton writes that the Memorial Church will continue to explore the theme “Redefining Success: Living a Life of Service and Sacrifice” this term.

An HDS Alum, a Xerox Machine, and the Pentagon Papers

January 25, 2018

Since the release of Steven Spielberg’s latest film, The Post, there’s been a spike in interest about the Pentagon Papers, a classified study of the U.S. government’s decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War. The Papers were first released by Daniel...

Video: RPP Colloquium: The Church as a Reconciling Presence in a World of Conflict

January 25, 2018

Is religion a cause of violent conflict or a catalyst for its transformation? Do faith leaders have a role at the international peacebuilding tables? Current international affairs highlight the power of religious ideologies—and their misappropriation—as a...

A Museum for the Bible in a Religiously Diverse Land

January 22, 2018

Professor Jon Levenson writes about the new Museum of the Bible and how there is no universal way to read or exhibit the bible.

A Vision for the Future of Environmentalism

January 18, 2018

Professor Dan McKanan, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity, has previously published books on religious movements working towards social justice and transformation. In his new book, Eco-Alchemy...

Clooney: Who Gets to Be a Prophet?

January 17, 2018

"If we are Christians in more than name only...we need to become familiar with the voice of God calling us individually by name, to upset things, shaking society and politics and the religious establishment too."—HDS Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Stang Discusses the CSWR’s ‘Peculiar Alchemy’

January 16, 2018

On July 1, Professor of Early Christian Thought Charles Stang became the seventh director of Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, succeeding Parkman Professor of Divinity Francis X. Clooney, S.J. A scholar of asceticism...