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Chosen Nation: Christianity, Politics, and American Destiny

May 24, 2017

Professor Catherine Brekus takes listeners on a journey through the history of American chosenness and how the concepts relate to our understanding of American exceptionalism today during The Faith Angle Forum in May.

Books on Repeat

May 22, 2017

Francis Clooney, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, shares the piece of literature he has reread the most, and what about it that keeps him coming back.

HDS Student Is Harvard's 2017 Commencement Graduate Orator

May 22, 2017

Walter Smelt III, MTS candidate, will speak on behalf of the graduate students during Harvard's 2017 Commencement morning exercises.

Immersed in the World’s Currents

May 19, 2017

Margaux Fitoussi’s world has changed before her eyes more than once. Born in France, she lived in Paris until she was 7, when her parents—she an American dancer and he a doctor of Tunisian origin—divorced. Next was a home on the edge of the ocean in Long...

James Comey: The Fall of a Niebuhrian

May 18, 2017

Former FBI director James Comey's story illustrates Reinhold Niebuhr’s conviction that historical events tend to refute our illusions, writes K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer on American Religious History.

Together, A Mother and A Daughter Keep the Faith

May 17, 2017

"Part of the bottom line job description of my profession is that transformation is possible," says Gloria White-Hammond, Swartz Resident Practitioner in Ministry Studies.

The CSWR Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

May 16, 2017

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J. is Parkman Professor of Divinity and outgoing director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, which he has led since July 2010. Matthew Weinstein, a second-year master of divinity degree candidate, spoke to...

Why France Fears Islam

May 09, 2017

Jocelyne Cesari is a Visiting Professor of Religion and Politics at HDS. She is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, Professor of Religion and Politics at University of Birmingham (England)...

HDS Student Named 2017 Newcombe Fellow

May 05, 2017

Jennifer Quigley, a ThD candidate, has been named one of 21 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2017 at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Newcombe Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for...

Video: In Conversation: The Bicentennial Gomes Honorees

May 05, 2017

Alumni/Alumnae Council Chairperson Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv ’10, moderated a discussion with this year's Gomes Honorees about their time at HDS, their views on the importance of School, and their work in the world. The panel was part of HDS's...

American Democracy Redux

May 04, 2017

Langdell Hall on the campus of Harvard Law School overflowed with more than 250 students on the first day of Professor Cornel West and Professor Roberto Unger’s “American Democracy” class. It was nearly 20 years ago when the two legendary professors...

Bringing Honeybee to Scale