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Thomas (Tal) A. Lewis has been Assistant Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School since 2003. His book Freedom and Tradition in Hegel: Reconsidering Anthropology, Ethics, and Religion was published in 2005 by University of Notre Dame...

About a decade ago I was strolling along a Connecticut beach on the Long Island Sound with David Kelsey, Luther A. Weigle Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School. At the time, I was seven or eight years out of HDS and immersed in a strategy...

The Venerable Losang Samten’s hands had to be steady as a surgeon’s as he engaged in the painstaking process of creating a “Wheel of Life” sand mandala during a week-long residency recently at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard...

It was a seemingly mundane activity—the reading of a newspaper—which moved Gwen Moore, MDiv ’00, to make a fundamental shift in her life. In December 1995, Moore scanned The New York Times and noticed a cover story about economic development in China. The...

Walking around with the Rev. Jeffrey L. Brown one day in early October, it was easy to understand why he had been dubbed "Mr. Mayor" at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod, where he was overseeing care for more than 200 people evacuated from the...

They've been carefully painted around and deliberately smeared, they've faded with time and been sporadically (and amateurishly) touched up. They've lost bits as plaster has dried and cracked and fallen away, and they've been partially covered up by...

Karen Armstrong, author of The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness and A History of God, delivered the 2005 Ingersoll Lecture on November 10, 2005.

Religious activist outlines path for new national dialogue.

Jocelyne Cesari was Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at HDS for the 2004-05 academic year and has served as a research associate in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University since spring 2001. Her book When Islam and...

After Mark Jennings receives his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School (HDS) today, he'll end up right where he started: on the mean streets of one of the nation's toughest cities.

William A. Graham, Dean of Harvard Divinity School, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of North Carolina on Sunday...

François Bovon, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, began teaching New Testament and early Christian literature at Harvard Divinity School in 1993, and was chair of the New Testament Department from 1993-98 and again in 2001-02. Before...