Video: What is a Multireligious Divinity School?
A panel of HDS faculty launches the bicentennial of HDS by discussing the outcome of the 200-year history of the School: a multireligious divinity school. Audio
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Photos: ‘Faces of Divinity’ Kicks Off School's Bicentennial Year
HDS has undertaken an audacious project to combine critical thinking about religion with the training of religious leaders in the context of a research university.
Michigan Court Drops Charges of Transgender Discrimination
Last week, a Michigan district court ruled to dismiss charges of discrimination against a Detroit-area funeral home, citing religious freedom as legitimate grounds upon which one can fire a transgender employee.
Politics Into Poetry
As we move into the campaigns’ last months, we need an antidote to the weightless, reckless words crowding the atmosphere, writes Professor Stephanie Paulsell.
Addressing Challenges for the Third Century
On August 30, George Rupp, former Dean of Harvard Divinity School, will deliver the keynote address during the School’s Convocation. The event, during which Harvard President Drew Faust will offer an introduction, also marks the kickoff to HDS’s...
Thought, Feeling, and Purpose
In Harvard Magazine, President Drew Faust pens a letter that discusses the importance of HDS's mission, and celebrates the School's upcoming bicentennial.
Professor Holland on Trump's Utah Problem
Donald Trump's " inwardly looking nativism clashes with the international instincts of the state's predominate faith," writes Professor David Holland.
Promoting Religious Literacy in a Digital Age
The Pamphlet is a new podcast devoted to the surprising history of Unitarian Universalism, including its connections to pirates in the colonial era and to Communist spies in the 1950s. HDS alumnus Sean Neil-Barron, MDiv ’15, who cocreated the podcast...
Called by the Woods
Katrina Peterson, MDiv '16, penned a personal essay that explores the relationship between humans, nature, and well-being.
Humans of HDS: On Faith and Scholarship
HDS professor and director of the CSWR Francis X. Clooney, S.J. discusses the importance of comparative religious study and his unique path from Brooklyn to Nepal to Cambridge.
Professor Jackson Pens The Work of Art
In its review, Publishers Weekly says Professor Michael Jackson's new book, The Work of Art, "p rovocatively challenges our understanding of the categories art and religion."
Bringing Faces of Divinity to Life
The history of Harvard Divinity School may not be what you think. To celebrate HDS’s bicentennial, Ann Braude, director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer on American Religious History, has worked for more than eight months on...
