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After completing the review process for over 300 paper proposals submitted to the 2013 "Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion," I am happy to announce that 120 graduate students and early-career scholars will gather to present their research at...

HDS opened its 198th academic year on Thursday, August 29, 2013, under a white tent behind Andover Hall. The Convocation featured a welcome from Dean David N. Hempton and a keynote address, "Devotion in the Study of Religion," by Professor Stephanie...

Dean David Hempton explains that reading Heaney's poetry was "a unifying Irish literary experience."

HDS professor Stephanie Paulsell spans centuries, from Bible to Woolf, in annual Convocation address.

Members of the Faculty of Divinity are expressing doubts about the prospect of a U.S. military strike in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's reported use of chemical weapons on the country's civilian population. Ahmed Ragab, William Graham, and...

Rabbi Sally Finestone is the denominational counselor to Jewish students at Harvard Divinity School and Rabbi and education director at Congregation Or Atid in Wayland, Massachusetts. Below is a sermon for the evening of Kol Nidrei, which marks the...

Dorie Clark, HDS alumna and business review strategist, on how to remake your professional life.

Pope Francis, who has inspired both affection and controversy with recent remarks on homosexuality and atheism, made headlines again this week. In an interview with the editor of the leading Jesuit journal in Rome, the Pope criticized the Catholic Church...

The Harvard Gazette speaks with HDS professor Francis Clooney about the implications of Pope Francis's recent remarks on gay marriage, contraception, and abortion.

Reza Aslan, M.T.S. ’99, author of the best-selling book “ Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth”, spoke about Jesus as a historical figure and revolutionary insurrectionist against Roman authority. Aslan, whose book soared on the best-seller...

On September 25, 2013, the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at HDS, in partnership with Harvard Medical School, presented the talk 'Is Health Care a Spiritual Discipline?' by Dr. Daniel Sulmasy. Sulmasy is the Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine...

Harvard Divinity Bulletin was recognized on September 28, 2013, as the Religion Newswriters Association's magazine of the year. The Bulletin, which is published twice per year by Harvard Divinity School and includes articles, reviews, and opinion pieces...