Charles Collier, MTS ’73, is a longtime philanthropic advisor at Harvard, an advocate for Alzheimer's Disease research and treatment, and now a 2015 Gomes Honoree.
Which U.S. president had a dog named Satan? Who was baptized on his deathbed? Test your knowledge of some surprising aspects about the faith and beliefs of U.S. presidents. Click here to load the quiz. Sources: PBS, Religion News Service, Huffington Post
Chris Berlin is a counselor to Buddhist students and Instructor in Ministry and Pastoral Counseling at HDS. He is part of a musical group consisting of several HDS alumni and students called Satigata. The group, formed at HDS, recently released an album...
Lawrence S. Bacow, a widely admired higher education leader who previously served as Tufts president and MIT chancellor, will become the University's next president in July.
Robert Jones is the founder and CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to conducting independent research at the intersection of religion, culture, and public policy. On Wednesday, February 21, at 5...
Harvard Divinity School today announced a $25 million gift from artist and philanthropist Susan Shallcross Swartz and her husband, investor James R. Swartz, AB '64. The gift—the largest in the School’s 200-year history—will enable HDS to move forward on...
As a student, Natalie Campbell, MTS ’18, needed more than a campus, she needed a second home. During the 2017–18 academic year, she commuted to class each day from Belmont and couldn’t easily go back and forth to the School, so she often stayed in...
HDS student Timothy Gallati studies experiences of “silence” in nature and contemplative practice, with applications in virtual and augmented realities. His research focuses on accounts of listening to silence in sound art, poetry, and Catholic monastic...
The Annual Greeley Lecture for Peace and Social Justice was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, and examined the social/political and theological implications of whiteness as an impediment to living God’s justice.
Based on personal study and experience, Anne Waldman speaks on the refuge and Bodhisattva vows, the Six Realms of Existence, “co-emergent wisdom” and a parallel vow to poetry, and the joys and contradictions therein. She integrates her own poetry...
America is no longer a majority white Christian nation. Journalist, author, commentator, and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne and Dr. Robert P. Jones, author of The End of White Christian America, discuss this seismic change, its impact on the...