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Cornel West's 'Prophetic Fightback'

In August, Cornel West stood arm-in-arm with clergy members in Charlottesville, Virginia, singing “This Little Light of Mine” while white supremacist groups spat at them and shouted racial epithets. Just weeks later, the HDS Professor of the Practice of...
Professor Cornel West

Shopping Period: Apocalyptic Literature and the Contemporary World

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Professor of New Testament Giovanni Bazzana about his fall 2017 class “Apocalyptic Literature from the Second...
Giovanni Bazzana, Professor of New Testament

Humans of HDS: Beauty Activist

“Coming to HDS is my story of leaving the war place. Part of my motivation to come here was about me wanting to find beauty in the midst of ugliness.”—Farah Zahra, MDiv ’17
Farah Zahra

Shopping Period: Examining Alternative Spiritualities

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Professor Dan McKanan about his fall 2017 class “Alternative Spiritualities in the United States,” which...
Dan McKanan

Statement from Dean Hempton on Events in Charlottesville

August 12 was one of the darkest days I’ve seen since I became dean of HDS. White nationalists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, a confederate general during the American Civil War. The group, which...
Dean David N. Hempton

Charlottesville: The Moment We Were Made For

The people who confronted white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia last Saturday drew on a truth that is more powerful than hate and a faith that the end of the story is not violence but love and life and their persistent victory. This is a dark...
Susan Hayward, MDiv '07, and HDS Professor Cornel West

The Logic of Calvin's Reform

Ahead of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Professor Michelle Sanchez writes that if Martin Luther's reform was triggered by a critique of indulgences, John Calvin's was triggered by a critique of idolatry.
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Shopping Period: The Epics of Indian Religions

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Professor Anne Monius about her fall 2017 class “Indian Religions Through Their Narrative Literatures”—an...
Anne E. Monius

HDS's Walton on 'Tough Talk from Weak Men'

Jonathan Walton, HDS Professor of Religion and Society, and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, writes a commentary concerning the rhetoric between the United States and North Korea and the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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A Summer Spent Advocating for Women’s Rights

This summer, thanks to several generous gifts in support of Dean David N. Hempton’s campaign initiatives, HDS continued its ongoing effort to provide students with financial support so that they can serve communities locally and abroad through...
MTS candidate Waskito Jati