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Beyond Nations, Beyond Continents, to a New World
Robert Lawson Slater had seen the world at its worst. After serving as a medical orderly in World War I, Slater, a British Army chaplain, found himself caught in the middle of the Japanese invasion of Burma during World War II. After helping to evacuate...
Robert Slater

For Ruby Sales, Long Road to Hope
On the morning of Aug. 20, 1965, the fates of Ruby Sales, a 17-year-old black activist from Georgia, and Jonathan Daniels, a white Episcopalian seminarian from New Hampshire, crossed in the struggle against segregation in the South. That day, Daniels gave...
Ruby Sales. Photo by David Goldman/AP

The Groundbreaker
Few changes have been more dramatic in the long history of Harvard Divinity School than the inclusion of women—both as scholars and the subject of scholarship. In that context, 1973 was a milestone. That year, HDS established its Women’s Studies in...
Constance H. Buchanan

Rights and Religion
David Little, ThD ’63, should have ended up in the pulpit if his family tree is any indication. His father was a fifth-generation Presbyterian minister. His brother, cousin, uncle and nephew all became clergy as well. Truth be told, Little intended to be...
2017 Gomes Honoree David Little

A Thirst for Justice
Mary E. Hunt, MTS ’74, has no time for hand-wringing. She’s deeply concerned about the future of the country and the world, particularly since last November’s election. She speaks with a sense of urgency about the plight of immigrants, refugees, people of...
2017 Gomes Honoree Mary Hunt

A Mighty Thing
Charles Adams knew he wanted to be a preacher. He didn’t know if he was old enough for the pulpit, though, so he asked his mom. He wasn’t happy with the answer. “I asked my mother when we came out of church one day, ‘How old am I?’ ” he remembers. “She...
2017 Gomes Honoree Charles G. Adams

Video: Beyond Militarization
At a time when the White House proposes to increase military spending, what role can religious communities play today in resisting war and militarism and working for social and economic justice? Speaker David Cortright, Director of Policy Studies and the...
Brian Hehir, RPP Colloquium speaker

‘Sometimes I Can’t Breathe, So I Write’
Writing is freedom for Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, MTS ’01: freedom from the life-threatening allergies and respiratory problems that have plagued her since she was a child; freedom from the prejudice and misunderstanding she experienced growing up...
Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, MTS ’01

HDS Faculty Weighs in on Indoctrination Claim
Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project, provides insight to Politifact, which examined a claim that the U.S. Education Department introduced an Islamic indoctrination program for public schools.
HDS professor Diane Moore, MDiv '84

Video: 2017 Stendahl Symposium
The 2017 Stendahl Symposium honored student papers on the theme of “Resisting Hegemonies: Understanding Multiplicity in a World of Difference.”
2017 Stendahl Symposium