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Harvard University has announced that Susan Shallcross Swartz, an artist and social and environmental activist, and her husband, James R. Swartz, AB '64, have donated $10 million to Harvard Divinity School. The gift will establish the Susan Shallcross...

Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93, says that he felt "slightly ridiculous" in 1990 when, at the age of 50, he enrolled in Harvard Divinity School's master of theological studies program. His friends and colleagues at home in France didn't offer him...

HDS professor Francis Schüssler Fiorenza discusses the significance of Pope Benedict XVI's surprise decision to resign from the papacy in February 2013.

Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, professor of Roman Catholic theological studies at HDS, spoke to the Harvard Gazette about the pope's resignation and possible successors.

Kevin Madigan, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at HDS, reviews Garry Wills's new book, Why Priests? The Real Meaning of the Eucharist in the New Republic.

HDS alumnus Joshua Eaton interviews Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi on Buddhism as a force for social justice.

Laura S. Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, has been named one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (PDF) for 2013-14 by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and...

The Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, MDiv '97, says that she used to be a "well-behaved woman." She was a devoted wife and mother, a good doctor, and was active in her local parish. Then she came to Harvard Divinity School and learned to misbehave. "Well...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council has announced the first cohort of honorees for the inaugural Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors, which celebrates the outstanding contributions that HDS alumni make to their fields, and to society, across the broad...

At HDS, a female Muslim law judge describes how she advanced in a patriarchal field.

Bryan Hehir, former leader of HDS, and current HDS faculty member Francis Schüssler Fiorenza offer their take on the election of Pope Francis.

Following Pope Benedict XVI's February 11 announcement that he would step down from the papacy, Harvard Divinity School faculty have been widely featured in local and national media discussing the fallout of Benedict's resignation and the future of the...