Humanitarian Crises and the Role of Faith
Around the world, many of the most influential local humanitarian actors are religious leaders. What does that mean for secular aid providers?
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Video: Healing, Bridge-Building, and Empowerment to Address Gun Violence
A discussion by leaders in the Boston area driving inspiring community-based initiatives to address the effects and sources of gun violence. Speakers Chaplain Clementina Chéry, founder, president, and CEO, Louis D. Brown Peace Institute; Stanley Pollack...
The Word Made Flesh
Professor of Religion and Latina/o Studies Mayra Rivera cares about bodies: bodies sent to war, where they are harmed; bodies relegated to slums that are unhealthy or workplaces that are unsafe; bodies that are the place where flesh and blood meet spirit...
Bending toward Justice, from Abolition to the Oval Office
Professor Dan McKanan discusses how a quote by Boston abolitionist Theodore Parker ended up in a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—and on the floor of the Oval Office.
Listening to Voices From the Human Past
This summer, when you and your kids were sitting through The Secret Life of Pets or some other blockbuster, you were actually watching a pretty sophisticated cultural product. The reason it may not have seemed that way to you is because you grew up with...
Examining the Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America
In 2002, two dozen Colombian army officers and former guerrilla fighters gathered at a hotel outside of Bogota. These leaders—representing the opposing sides of a conflict that has lasted 53 years and killed over 220,000 Colombians—arrived on the same...
Weaving Africa Into the Tapestry of Islam
Ousmane Kane, HDS’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, wants to paint a much broader and more accurate picture of Islam. A leader among a burgeoning group of scholars in the field, Kane works to bring the...
Another Way In
It was the mid-1970s and, after one year at Harvard Divinity School, Margaret Rose still had not found her calling. She had a passion for theology and for social justice, but wasn’t convinced that a career as a religious leader was for her, so she went...
The Harmony Sounds Good Together
The education of progressive Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist ministers is literally embedded in Harvard Divinity School’s DNA. The legendary Rev. William Ellery Channing actually penned the 1815 appeal that went out in Harvard President Kirkland’s...
Video: Religious Literacy and Humanitarian Action
What knowledge and assumptions about religion do faith-based and secular international humanitarian agencies have? How do these assumptions impact their work? What kind of knowledge about religion is most useful? Watch A symposium on January 19–20, 2017...
Making Space for Muslims in the University—and America
Celene Ibrahim, MDiv ’11, is one of a growing number of HDS alumni who pursue religious leadership in a tradition other than Christianity—and in a setting other than a house of worship. As Tufts University’s Muslim chaplain, Ibrahim works with students to...
The Real Young Pope
HBO's "The Young Pope," has renewed interest in the actual youngest pope. Professor Kevin Madigan offers insight to TIME magazine.
