Humans of HDS: Legacy of Activism
Christina Désert is a second-year master of divinity candidate, a social worker, and activist from Haiti.
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The American Mind Closes (Again)
In an essay, Professor Jon D. Levenson reexamines Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, and asks the question: Why has modern academic culture proven so vulnerable to the forces now transforming it so fundamentally?
Understanding Aztec Discoveries in Mexico City
Professor Davíd Carrasco explains the spiritual meaning of items recently found in Mexico City, once home to the Aztec empire's holiest shrines, and believed buried there 500 yearrs ago.
What a Mormon Doing Buddhist Meditation Has to Do with the Future of Faith
Ministry Innovation Fellows Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston discuss their work to understand where millennial Americans go to find community and how leaders can expand the spiritual offerings of traditional churches.
Humans of HDS: Answering the Call
Britney Foster is a second-year master of divinity degree candidate from Los Angeles. She is a social worker, an educator, and a minister.
Christianity, Politics, and American Destiny
Catherine Brekus is the Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School and the Program in American Studies at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is currently working on a book about Christianity and...
HDS Alum Susan Frederick-Gray Elected UUA President
The Unitarian Universalist Association elected the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, MDiv '01, as its ninth president on June 24. Frederick-Gray is the first woman elected to lead the liberal religious movement, which includes approximately 1,000 congregations...
An HDS Summer Reading List
It’s as much a part of the season as a beach trip or baseball: compiling a summer reading list. To help get you started, members of the HDS community shared what they’ll be reading this summer—for work and for pleasure. Kerry Maloney, chaplain and...
HDS Welcomes Journalist and Author E.J. Dionne for 2017–18 Academic Year
Harvard Divinity School is pleased to announce that E.J. Dionne, the distinguished journalist and author, political commentator, and longtime op-ed columnist, will join the School for the 2017–18 academic year as a William H. Bloomberg Visiting Professor...
‘Faithful’ Looks Beyond Edges of Religious Traditions
In an era of rapid change in religious identity and practice, institutional leaders across America ask “to what are we faithful?” As affiliation declines and new communities emerge, we are torn between loyalty to what has been and a desire to be part of...
To Help Build Peace, Be Vulnerable
“Democracy and conflict resolution are linked concepts,” says Darren Kew, a visiting scholar of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. “If you take a conflict resolution workshop and institutionalize it, you get something that ultimately looks a lot like...
Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord: A Perilous Opportunity
On Thursday, June 1, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. In December 2015, nearly every country in the world agreed to the first global pact aimed at reducing emissions of planet-warming...
