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Video: Multireligious Commencement Service for the Class of 2016

May 25, 2016

Graduating HDS students, their families, faculty, and staff participated in the 2016 Multireligious Commencement Service on May 25, 2016. Kimberley C. Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion, gave the faculty address. Listen...

Humans of HDS: Finding Meaning After Unexpected Loss

May 25, 2016

HDS associate director for development communications Paul Massari writes about the love and support he received from the HDS community after the tragic death of his mother.

Teachings From the TV Preacher

May 25, 2016

Former Pentecostal televangelist Carlton Pearson visited Harvard recently to announce his donation to the Andover-Harvard Theological Library of his personal archives, which include thousands of hours of raw and produced footage to give researchers...

HDS's Clooney on Islam, the Gospel, and World Conquest

May 23, 2016

In response to a recent interview with Pope Francis, HDS professor and CSWR director Francis X. Clooney, S.J., examines the pontiff's rather novel view of “Europe” in relation to Christendom, and his analysis of fearful responses to Islam.

Talking About Faith in Public

May 20, 2016

What keeps believers from talking about faith in public? HDS Senior Lecturer Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project, offers insight.

HDS Course Creates ‘Presence in Absence’

May 18, 2016

Laura Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at HDS, has long been interested in the ways the ancient letters of the Apostle Paul provide evidence of the interaction between Jews and Gentiles in the ancient world. One of the pressing...

Year in Review: HDS in 2015-16

May 17, 2016

The 2015-16 academic year provided many memorable moments at HDS. As we head toward Commencement, we take a look back at some of the events that made this academic year so meaningful and special. [[{"fid":642811,"view_mode":"default","type":"media"...

Humans of HDS: Finding Inspiration

May 13, 2016

HDS doctoral candidate Cori Tucker-Price talks about the support she's received from her parents and teachers and how she plans to use the skills she's acquired at HDS to give back to others.

A Monk With One Foot in the World

May 12, 2016

Tajay Bongsa has seen conflict firsthand. He experienced it growing up in an indigenous community in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, he saw its consequences in Sri Lanka, and he heard it from the victims he visited in former war zones there...

A Personal Spring Break Journey

May 09, 2016

When MDiv candidate Gaby Chavez visited Mexico on a student-organized study trek, she took a brief moment to send her mother the picture she had just taken with former Mexican president Felipe Calderon. Then she tried not to cry. Chavez received a lengthy...

Humans of HDS: Potpourri Identity

May 05, 2016

Mushfiqur Rahman Chowdhury is studying religion, ethics, and politics at HDS. He has a passion for peacebuilding, and last summer he worked as a counselor for Seeds of Peace, helping Jewish and Muslim youth engage in interfaith dialogue, healing, and...

Centuries to Celebrate: Harvard Divinity Turns 200

May 02, 2016

Two hundred years. Even in an institution as venerable as Harvard University, that's a long time. Harvard Divinity School, the nation's first nonsectarian theological school, will celebrate its bicentennial during the 2016–17 academic year with events and...