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In his new book How to Read the Bible, HDS Professor Harvey Cox, an iconic theologian, reveals three primary ways of reading the holy book.

Throughout her academic career, Leila Ahmed, HDS's Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, has labored to understand the history of women and gender in Islam. Her scholarship has earned her the admiration of her colleagues. Her candor and skill as a...

HDS students Aisha Ansano, Ryan Cogswell, Taj Smith, and Christopher Whiteman deliver sermons for the Billings Preaching Prize Competition during Noon Service on April 15, 2015. The annual preaching competition is open to second- and third-year MDiv...

Professor Mohammed Rustom explores the question of Islam and nature in a lecture from the Junior Fellowship series "Religion and Nature."

Reverend Dr. William Barber works with workshop participants to explore and examine how to effectively build populist transformative movements that utilize imagination and creativity.

HDS professor Harvey Cox has spent years reading and studying scripture. In his new book, " How to Read the Bible," he argues that even in a secular age, a close reading and deeper understanding of sacred texts is vital to understanding who we are. His...

Longtime presidential adviser and Harvard Kennedy School professor David Gergen captivated a packed audience at Harvard Divinity School in a wide-ranging conversation with HDS Dean David N. Hempton on religion, politics, and public life. The talk was a...

As head of religion research at the "fact tank" Pew Research Center, Alan Cooperman deals heavily in numbers. But he also knows that "numbers seldom tell the whole story," and that the students and scholars at Harvard are the people who can provide...

A report was released by HDS students Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile mapping a new cohort of businesses and non profits that are providing answers to the same needs that churches and organized religion once provided.

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., discusses his book, His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence, with two respondents, Catherine Cornille, Professor and Chairperson of the Theology Department and Newton College Alumnae Chair of...

Longtime presidential adviser and Harvard Kennedy School professor David Gergen captivated a packed audience during the Dean's Leadership Forum in a wide-ranging conversation with HDS Dean David N. Hempton on religion, politics, and public life. Read more

Professor Kevin Madigan discusses his recent book, Medieval Christianity: A New History, with two colleagues, Professors Luis M. Girón Negrón and Amy Hollywood.