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Idealism in Action

December 07, 2017

David Hysong, MDiv ’15, finished his master’s degree in intellectual history in 2011 and found himself with a year’s lag time before he planned to enter the U.S. Navy. He was young, good looking, and smart. Most people in his position would probably have...

Kindfulness: Buddhist Ministry at HDS

December 07, 2017

Duncan Gardner, MDiv ’14, is one of the growing number of alumni of the HDS Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI), the first program of its kind at a divinity school associated with a major research university. He tells the inmates in the Tennessee prison...

Shining a Light on America’s ‘Spiritual Blackout’

December 04, 2017

Cornel West's course, “ American Democracy,” co-taught with Harvard Law School professor Roberto Unger, addressed the rise of inequality and nationalism in the United States through the lenses of class, race, and identity, and suggested ways to work for...

E. J. Dionne Works Hard to Write It Like He Sees It

December 01, 2017

E. J. Dionne’s early passion for language grew out of the debates and books that filled his Fall River home. His writing grew out of his love for reading. A 1973 graduate of Harvard, where he wrote for The Crimson, Dionne covered politics for 14 years for...

The Spirit of Capitalism

November 30, 2017

For 200 years, HDS graduates have carried an ethic of scholarship and service into their work for religious institutions, nonprofits, schools and universities, and governments around the world. But what about business? Do HDS alumni have an impact in the...

Video: James Luther Adams in Unitarian Universalist History

November 30, 2017

From the Commission of Appraisal in 1936 to the Black Empowerment impulse of the 1960s, James Luther Adams was a significant shaper of Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist institutions. And as a social ethicist, he helped envision the new national and...

Video: Everyone Has Buddha-nature

November 29, 2017

Was Buddha a human or a god? Harvard Divinity School student Yin Guan, MTS ’19 gives the two-minute story about the Buddha-nature within us all.

FBI Officials, Religious Scholars Gather at HDS

November 28, 2017

25 years after the debacle now simply referred to as “Waco,” FBI officials and scholars from the American Academy of Religion gathered at Harvard Divinity School to reflect on how the crisis in Texas led to a new relationship between them–and on the...

We Are Winning: Interreligious Respect and Friendship on the Rise

November 27, 2017

HDS Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J. writes in his latest blog post that the dour headlines of loss and decay don't reflect the fact that more is happening to bring people together than ever before in human history.

We Speak, Therefore We Are

November 27, 2017

Marcus Briggs-Cloud, MTS ’10, has dedicated his life to revitalizing his ancestral tongue and the cultural identity it sustains. An indigenous Maskoke, for more than a decade he has been teaching his native language to college and high school students and...

The Sacredness of Food

November 21, 2017

At a Noon Service hosted in the spring by the HDS Garden Group, the Rev. Dr. María Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa, MDiv ’07, ThD ’16, shared a single ear of multicolored corn with those present. Vlassidis Burgoa, who was studying indigenous traditions and...

Video: South Asian Religions Colloquium (SARC): James Mallinson

November 17, 2017

The South Asian Religions Colloquium (SARC) seeks to share ongoing, current scholarly research on topics in South Asian religions with Harvard students and faculty as well as the wider Boston academic community. This event features speaker James Mallinson...