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Preston Williams to Receive 2021 Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association announced that HDS Professor Preston N. Williams, PhD ’67, will receive the 2021 Harvard Medal. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Emeritus, was the first tenured African American faculty member...
Professor Preston Williams

Terry Tempest Williams: We Have to Bridge Our Divides
"Healing this uncivil war, especially within our own families, is not about changing our minds or even our hearts but first creating a space where we can meet unarmed. Here, an opening can occur. We are not abandoning our principles, but expanding our...
Terry Tempest Williams

Faith, Fear, and Change
"As we stand with those women at the open, empty tomb, may we feel our desire for resurrection and its transformations rising within us. And may we be brave enough to take up the story where they left off, brave enough to resist going back to the way...
Stephanie Paulsell in Memorial Church

Courage and Compassion in a Volatile World
In a year unlike any other, HDS celebrates the diversity of alumni impact in the public sphere with the 2021 Gomes Honors. Each year, the HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) recognizes the Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honors, celebrating...
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Humans of HDS: Forming Identity, Finding Belonging
“I had one interaction with a patient who had trouble talking and had to communicate by writing on notebook paper. And as she struggled to write, she told me that she was preparing to be her husband’s co-caretaker now that they were both in a place of...
Steven Fisher, MDiv '21

Rallying Religious and Health Leaders to Prevent Child Abuse
Preventing and healing child abuse involves more than medical care or social work. For many, particularly those whose abuse involved religious figures, it must incorporate faith as well. “Faith and Flourishing: Strategies for Preventing and Healing Child...
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Holy Memories of the Faith, Lived Anew, Together
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, offers a reflection for Holy Week. This week Christians across the world mark the holiest days of the Christian calendar: Holy (Maundy) Thursday, Good Friday...
Professor Frank Clooney standing in the CSWR. Photo by Kris Snibbe, Harvard Gazette

The Coloniality of Apocalypse
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies Mayra Rivera and Drew University Professor Catherine Keller reflect on "the end of the world," "climate apocalypse," and the aftermath of Hurricane María.
Professor Mayra Rivera. Photo: Courtesy Mayra Rivera

Humans of HDS: A View from the Inside
Johnna Loreen, MTS '18, works as an education navigator, advocating for and advising people who want to start or continue their education upon their release from incarceration.
Johnna Loreen, MTS ′18