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Faculty Explore Possibilities for Buddhist Chaplaincy in West

March 23, 2017

In March 2017, the Buddhist Ministry Working Group convened at Upaya Zen Center, in Santa Fe, New Mexico for three days of conversation, collaboration, and contemplative practice. This gathering was part of a series of meetings hosted by Harvard Divinity...

Understanding Body and Soul

March 23, 2017

For Steven Jungkeit, balance is key: balance of his twin vocations as a Congregationalist minister and a professor of critical theory and ethics at Harvard Divinity School. Bringing these two elements together has produced some interesting results, such...

Mascots and the Crusades

March 20, 2017

Professor Kevin Madigan discusses how the meaning of the word “Crusader” has evolved since the College of the Holy Cross adopted it in 1925.

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An Unexpected Journey After Abortion

March 17, 2017

Kassi Underwood was broke, 19 years old, unwed, an addict, and in college a thousand miles from home when she became pregnant and had an abortion. In the several years that followed, coping with heartache and loss, she struggled with drugs and alcohol and...

Six for 200

March 15, 2017

The recipients of the annual Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors are typically people who have changed the world: the minister who helps form an international nonprofit that enables formerly enslaved women and girls to reclaim their lives; the diplomat...

Richard Niebuhr, Theologian and Teacher, Dies at Age 90

March 13, 2017

Longtime HDS professor Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus, passed away on February 26 at the age of 90.

Humans of HDS: From Feminist Punk Rock to Islam

March 09, 2017

HDS student Heather Rick talks about her unlikely road to HDS, the role of writers in today's political climate, and how she found inspiration in Muslim punk rock.

Encouraging Authentic Religious Literacy

March 09, 2017

Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project, discusses the ways religion can be taught to encourage religious literacy.

Video: The Problem Soul and Life Without Appeal

March 09, 2017

Dr. Anthony B. Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University, delivered the annual named William James Lecture. Listen

Responding to Hate With Solidarity

March 07, 2017

On the evening of February 27, two swastikas and the phrase “race office” were carved into the front doors of the Fourth Universalist Society in New York. On Friday, March 10, that church community hosted an Interfaith Solidarity event in response to the...

Video: Religion-Specific or Trans-Religious?

March 06, 2017

In CSWR's Annual Comparative Theology Lecture, Robert C. Neville, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at the Boston University School of Theology, discusses the nature of comparative theology and the different approaches one could take: being...

Millennials, Spirituality, and New Venues

March 03, 2017

Ministry Innovation Fellow Casper ter Kuile shares his honest opinion on the changing shape of American religion and how millennials are creating new forms of spiritual community.