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Casper ter Kuile, MDiv '16, MPP '16, and Angie Thurston, MDiv '16, map and convene the Millennial leaders of spiritual communities at the forefront of religious change. From CrossFit to dinner churches, Muslim small groups, and maker spaces, their work...

The fourth annual Black Religion, Spirituality, and Culture Conference was held February 28, 2020. This year's theme was Black Womxn at the Center, highlighting Black womxn doing praxis-driven work in academia, ministry, and the arts, all broadly-defined...

On March 25, 2020, the HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship offered a podcast version of Noon Service on the topic “Mary’s YES, our YES!” Celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation with MDiv candidates Anne Stetson, Jonathan Robert, Joris Bürmann, Carolyn Beard...

“The classes are proceeding as close to normal as one could hope for under the circumstances. We’re all determined to finish the semester,” said Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and associate dean for faculty and academic affairs.

HDS monastic Swami Sarvapriyananda, minister and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of New York, offers a mindful approach to social distancing for those who feel cut off or cooped up.

"As the year comes to a close, I find myself feeling immense gratitude for the classmates and courses of the first year of divinity school in all its complexity and challenge," writes MDiv candidate Julia Reimann.

“I love hearing what people are working on and what they’re passionate about. I feel so grateful that we’re all co-conspirators, leaning into our unique gifts.”— Anissa Abdel-Jelil, MDiv ’20

“My mission in life is to understand how religion can be a vehicle for peace in the world—well, one of my two missions. My other mission in life is to ‘help out anyone that needs it.’”— Hope Williams, MTS '20

This online event to honor and recognize the HDS Class of 2020 took place May 28 and featured remarks from Dean David N. Hempton, the HDS Class of 2020 Student Speaker Ashley Lipscomb, a reading of the graduates names, and the sharing of well wishes...

Ashley Lipscomb, MDiv '20, was selected by her student colleagues as the class speaker for HDS Commencement 2020. The following remarks were delivered by Lipscomb during the Virtual Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 28. ♦♦♦ "Continue" by Maya Angelou My...

Tessa Steinert Evoy, MTS ‘20, and a graduate assistant in the Office of Admissions, reflects on the memories of HDS that will stay with her long after graduation.

I know you share with me a deep anger and sadness after one of the worst weeks in our country’s recent history, possibly THE worst. There are now over 100,000 deaths from the Covid-19 virus, mostly the elderly, the incarcerated, “essential” workers, the...