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David Little, T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at Harvard Divinity School, has been named director of the School's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life. "Professor Little brings to...

On April 3, the alumni recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors spoke at the final Divinity Dialogues event of the 2013-14 academic year. The panelists were: Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS '84; Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93...

Learn from your classmates, practice joy and gratitude, and venture out. That's some of the wisdom members of the HDS community have to share with the 136 incoming students who started their orientation this week. The students come from 30 states and from...

In her Harvard Divinity School Convocation address, HDS Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura S. Nasrallah recalled her efforts studying a Greek mosaic and her pondering the sometimes obscurity of her work. "I wondered: Was I a...

The city of Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in protest after the August 9 fatal shooting of an unarmed African American teenager by a police officer. The event—and the response of city and state authorities—inspired a national debate about race, law...

HDS opened its 199th academic year on Thursday, August 28, 2014, with a keynote address, "The Matter of Religion and Theology." Dean David N. Hempton offered welcoming remarks and Professor Laura Nasrallah, MDiv candidate Barbara Schreur, and ThD...

It's a question that many faculty members wrestle with no matter at what school or university they may find work: To speak or not to speak? Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Professor of Comparative Theology and director of the Center for the Study of World...

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton commemorated the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks today with a visit to New York City, where he challenged students at one of the nation's elite independent schools to "better understand both the...

On September 10, President Barack Obama outlined a strategy to combat the jihadist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) following the recent killings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. The strategy involves the...

On the 13th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001, Stephanie Paulsell, HDS Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies, presided over the Thursday morning Ecumenical Eucharist in Andover Chapel. In her remarks, Paulsell recalled...

Based on in-depth interviews with Jewish Palestine solidarity activists and a study of Jewish solidarity movements on social media, Atalia Omer demonstrates in When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and...

Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, a panel of HDS professors explores tensions and creative possibilities professors face in the role of public intellectuals. The panel, moderated by Francis X. Clooney, S.J...