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HDS Professor Jon Levenson is one of 15 highly accomplished scholars who published a letter with advice for young people who are headed off to college.

In August, Cornel West stood arm-in-arm with clergy members in Charlottesville, Virginia, singing “This Little Light of Mine” while white supremacist groups spat at them and shouted racial epithets. Just weeks later, the HDS Professor of the Practice of...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Professor of New Testament Giovanni Bazzana about his fall 2017 class “Apocalyptic Literature from the Second...

HDS Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West delivered the 2017 Convocation address "Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, Prophetic Fightback," on August 29, 2017. You can read a recap of the Convocation ceremony and Professor West's...

Women’s Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) 2017-18 Research Associates discuss their research and share their thoughts on the ethical responsibility of scholars to be engaged in the study of gender. Listen

"It's pretty difficult to see how you can understand anything about contemporary human affairs without understanding their religious dimensions," said Diane Moore, founder and director of HDS's Religious Literacy Project.

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus Harvey Cox about his fall 2017 class “Pope Francis: His ‘Theology of the...

HDS Dean David N. Hempton is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe, North America, and beyond. On September 7, he spoke at the Morning Prayers service in The Memorial Church, Harvard...

HDS Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West delivered the 2017 Convocation address titled "Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, Prophetic Fightback." His remarks can be read below. A video of the ceremony and a recap are available...

Brad S. Gregory, Professor of History and Dorothy G. Griffin Collegiate Chair at the University of Notre Dame, delivered a lecture titled “The Reformation Era and the Unintended Secularization of Western Society.” Audio Listen on iTunes or via SoundCloud...

Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, speaks on moral courage and civil disobedience.

Sarah Griffis, a fifth-year doctoral candidate, is currently writing a dissertation on the narrativization of suffering in antiquity, focusing on early Christian martyrdom texts and Greek tragedy.