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Instead of being an excuse for inaction, thoughts and prayers can turn us toward acts of love, writes Professor Stephanie Paulsell.

Harvard Divinity School student Shannon Boley pushed open the heavy door to the large shipping container and slowly stepped out on to the School’s campus green, wiping away tears from her eyes. Asked why she was crying, she said “that was just a...

In today’s political climate, everything is taking on a hostile and confrontational tone. We are increasingly alienated, unable and unwilling to understand and respect one another anymore, writes Professor Frank Clooney.

There is still a great conversation among religious people to be had about the Donald Trump presidency, writes Professor Frank Clooney.

Harvard Divinity School brought to the Cambridge campus a large shipping container that serves as a portal to refugees around the world, using audio-visual technology that allows students and refugees to have live conversations, WGBH radio reports.

MTS candidate Steven Núñez writes below on the ongoing activities and efforts of the HDS Racial Justice and Healing Initiative. In the wake of the murder of Michael Brown in 2014, Melissa Bartholomew, MDiv ’15, and a group of HDS students, along with Rev...

Journalist and author E.J. Dionne, William H. Bloomberg Visiting Professor, delivers the 2017 Horace De Y. Lentz Lecture. Dionne is a distinguished journalist and author, political commentator, and longtime op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. He is...

David Hempton discusses his recent publication, Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World. Heather Curtis (Tufts) and Jon H. Roberts (BU) served as respondents.

In a nation clearly so divided as the United States these days —politically, socially, culturally —how do we fight for our beliefs at an urgent moment without ostracizing those who old other views? That’s the question distinguished journalist and author E...

Catherine Brekus discusses her recent publication, Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings. David Holland (HDS) and Margaret Bendroth serve as respondents.

Professor Sarah Hammerschlag delivered this year's Albert and Vera List Jewish Studies Lecture on the topic "Truth for Children: Suffering and Election in Postwar French Jewish Thought." In her lecture Hammerschlag considers the role of biblical...

On his tenth birthday, Akhil Gupta’s mother cooked up a big batch of food to give to the poor in the old section of Delhi. Then she took her son down to their first stop, a Hindu temple. Next stop was the Sikh temple, then the places of worship for Jains...