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Doug Jones pulled off an upset victory December 12 over Republican Roy Moore by becoming first Democrat to claim a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years. According to preliminary exit polling conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool, the...

Most Americans equate Hanukkah with Judaism, but what’s the real story with the holiday? Harvard Divinity School student Jessica Rosenberg, MDiv ’20, gives the low-down on this enigmatic festival—is it what you think?

Held on December 7–8, 2017, the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative (RLPI) explored the complicated roles religions play in our nation’s multi-faceted debate over immigration, and how understanding those roles may help government agencies...

I am an ordained Christian minister (UCC), and so one might say I am in the forgiveness business. I would therefore like to explain why I think it is time to hit the “pause” button on a leap toward forgiveness, or on wringing hands over whether, in light...

"I never imagined myself where I am today. I learned to let go of thinking that there was a certain way things needed to happen. I let go of a rigid way of holding onto things. Life doesn’t unfold like you expect."

The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas S. Monson, died on January 2. Monson led the church for nearly 10 years, enabling a rise in the ranks of female Mormon missionaries and displaying an openness to scholars of...

Professor Stephanie Paulsell writes about how in her course on contemplative prayer, she assigns just six books—and she and student read them each twice.

“The Examined Life,” a course taught by HDS professors David Lamberth and Cornel West, breaks conventions. In many classes across Harvard, discussions about the implications of theories on contemporary lived experience don’t take center stage. The main...

HDS alumnus and Harvard professor Lawrence Stager, a trailblazer of biblical archaeology, died December 29.

"If we are Christians in more than name only...we need to become familiar with the voice of God calling us individually by name, to upset things, shaking society and politics and the religious establishment too."—HDS Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Professor Dan McKanan, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity, has previously published books on religious movements working towards social justice and transformation. In his new book, Eco-Alchemy...

Professor Jon Levenson writes about the new Museum of the Bible and how there is no universal way to read or exhibit the bible.