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Drew Faust, Dean Hempton discuss the role of religious studies and values at Leadership Day talk.

HDS professor Kimberley Patton says the modern West tends to dismiss significance of dreams, perhaps missing a lesson from the ancients.

HDS student Chris Lisee writes on how faith communities in Boston are responding to the violence that occurred at the Boston Marathon.

Harvard Divinity School has collected some thoughts and analysis from faculty, students, and colleagues relevant to the April 15 attack in Boston. Our hope is that these works give perspective on the events, bring the HDS community together, and/or...

Eerie puffs of smoke, loud bangs, screaming people, bloodied bodies, and debris-strewn sidewalks, followed almost immediately by remarkable acts of courage and compassion. This was Boston on Marathon Monday, April 15. I was reminded of another city and...

Katherine Collins, MTS '11, was a rising star at Fidelity Management & Research Company, one of the country's leading investment firms. During her 18-year career at the company, she managed diversified mutual funds with assets of over $4 billion and was...

HDS alumnus Bill Bradford on his experience at the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15.

by Jonathan Beasley Episcopal priest and theological scholar the Rev. Matthew L. Potts , MDiv '08, has been named Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2013. Potts works at the intersection of the practices...

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation recently announced the selection of 22 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2013. Among them are Harvard doctoral candidates in history Philippa Hetherington and Caroline Spence, as well...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) is pleased to announce four new members, who will begin terms of service on July 1, 2013: Peter K. Anagnostos, MTS '86, of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv '10, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Shenila...

A panel at HDS probed religion's place in cruelties, such as the Boston Marathon bombings.

The bombs went off about an hour after Chris Lisee, MTS '13, finished the 2013 Boston Marathon; after his parents, aunt, and fiancée—all up from New Jersey to cheer him on—wrapped him in their arms and a foil blanket to keep him warm; after his legs...