News

Sort & Filters

Filters

Discover Stories About
Featured Topics
Feature on Homepage
news category
news classification
news type
topic tags
Publish Date
2179 results
2179 results

The Fog of Peace

Political anthropologist Jennifer Schirmer, a visiting scholar at the Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative at Harvard Divinity School, spent 14 years working on peace negotiations in Colombia. She offers insight following the country's rejected...
Jennifer Schirmer

What's Said in the Dark Will Be Heard in the Light

Stephanie Paullsell is the Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies. On October 14, she spoke at the Morning Prayers service in Holden Chapel in Harvard Yard. Below are her remarks. ♦♦♦ The first time an adult man grabbed a...
Stephanie Paulsell

'It Can Be Done'

Karen Tse had a vision. As a second-year student at HDS in the late 1990s, she imagined founding an organization that would end the use of torture by law enforcement around the world. She even made her dream the topic of her master of divinity thesis...
Rev. Karen Tse

Video: Religion, Ecology, and Our Planetary Future

“Religion, Ecology, and Our Planetary Future” advances the work of understanding and transforming the discourse of religions and ecology for the twenty-first century. The conference marks the twentieth anniversary of the Religions of the World and Ecology...
Religion, Ecology, and Our Planetary Future video thumbnail

Chaplaincy Without Borders

The NFL has chaplains. Most universities do, too. The military, U.S. Congress, and hospitals across the country have access to chaplaincy resources, but not social change leaders. Not typically anyway. But over the last several years, three Harvard...
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Shaundra Cunningham, and Eric Dawson

Politics and Pope Francis' Gender Comments

One of the problems about being pope, said HDS professor Francis Clooney, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, is the immensely diverse set of political situations with which a pontiff’s words carry weight.
Pope Francis via AP

Becoming Our Aspirational Selves

HDS ministry innovation fellow Angie Thurston, MDiv '16, writes about finding purpose in community as she works to map a landscape of life-giving organizations that are emerging even as religious affiliation declines.
Biker