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When the archaeology PhD student Ann Seiferle-Valencia tells friends and family about the sixteenth-century codex Mapa de Cuauhtinchan ("Place of the Eagle"), which she is helping to decipher along with an international team of scholars assembled by...

After returning from a recent two-week trip to Cameroon, where he helped staff an ecumenical media team from the United States that was covering the Eighth General Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), second-year MDiv student Marlon...

How was Cameroon? Glad you asked. It was awesome! This was my first trip to Africa, and one cannot make any generalizations about Africa from visiting one country, so I will focus on Cameroon. I went to Cameroon for the Eighth General Assembly of the All...

William R. Hutchison served for 32 years, 1968 to 2000, as Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School, and is now Charles Warren Research Professor. His most recent book is Religious Pluralism in America: The...

William A. Graham, Dean of Harvard Divinity School, has announced that the Faculty of Divinity will pursue an appointment in Islamic religious studies to be supported by special University funding. "I am pleased to announce that we are going forward with...

The fortunate members of the Harvard community who got to hear the musicians "Dr. Loco y Los Dos Montoya" during their visit to campus December 10-12, 2003, no doubt came to believe it was their scorching melodies and rhythms, not the warmer temperatures...

HDS student Ellen Aitken delivered Morning Prayers in Appleton Chapel on December 15, 2003. Some of you may know the words of the Advent Prose, the use of words from the prophet Isaiah to express deep longing for God and God's ways: "Drop down, ye heavens...

This is December 12, which most of us identify as one more day in the march toward Christmas break or as part of Hanukkah or the holidays. But Mexican immigrants and long-time Latino citizens of the U.S. bring another meaning to this day, filling it with...

Text: Matt. 19:16-22 This text, and especially the injunction to "sell your possessions," is like a parabolic Sermon on the Mount—a sermon on Mount Everest at that—all by itself. Your banker, not to mention your priest or minister, is unlikely to think...

Romania has made significant progress in its trek from Communism, but the path toward change has been a long and difficult one. With that in mind, Romanian government officials organized a conference on religious freedom where they sought the insight of...

It is with great sadness that we learned of the recent passing of John Whitehead, a member of the HDS Dean's Council, honorary chair of the Campaign for HDS, and a great friend to the School for more than a generation. John was not an alumnus of HDS—he...

Far too often, and seemingly more and more in recent months, conversations and headlines are driven by death, fear, and hate. There's much less focus on cooperation, service, and peace. With that in mind, and while also recognizing the need to highlight...