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HDS alumni George Rupp, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, and Karen Tse spoke about human rights and religion at the launch of the Campaign for HDS.

On April 1, 2014, Harvard Divinity School hosted a symposium on Religion and the Media. The symposium featured Harvard's Jean Comaroff, Jacob Olupona, and Marla Frederick as well as Brian Goldstone (Columbia University), Simon Coleman (University of...

Katherine Collins, MTS '11, is a professional investor who's managed billions of dollars of assets. Her new book, The Nature of Investing, lays out the nature-inspired principles she puts into practice today as head of her own research firm. She spoke...

Millennials—Americans aged 18-34—who say they 'talk to God' outnumber those who say they do not by almost a 2-1 margin, according to a new survey by the Integrated Innovation Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. At the same time, only a bare majority...

On April 2, 2014, Zilka Spahic Siljak, WSRP Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer, spoke about the subject of her book, "Shining Humanity: Life Stories of Women Peace-builders in Bosnia and Herzegovina," which was published in Bosnia last year and will...

On April 22, 2014, Harvard Divinity School hosted an interactive workshop on Cherrie L. Moraga's play "New Fire: To Put Things Right Again." David Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, introduced the program and playwright...

Saying that "inequality is the root of social evil," Pope Francis has made economic justice a focus of his papacy. With young Americans turning away from organized faith communities, though, can religion really play a part in progressive social movements...

New Testament scholar and religious historian François Bovon passed away November 1, 2013, in Aubonne, Switzerland. Bovon was Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, where he was associated for two decades...

India is choosing a new government. Many pundits predict that the country's 814 million voters will make Narendra Modi, head of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the next prime minister of the world's largest democracy when the election ends on May 12 and...

On April 15, 2014, members of the jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school in northern Nigeria and threatened to " sell them in the market, by Allah, in an effort to end Western education." Nations around the world condemned...

In an op-ed, HDS professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J. expresses his concern over a planned black mass, hosted by the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club.

Ronit Irshai, Assistant Professor at Bar Ilan University, visited HDS on December 11, 2013.