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On December 6-7, 2007, the Office of Ministry Studies, Harvard Divinity School, held a conference on the progressive church at the First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street. The conference program included an evening opening panel, with three featured...

For over 20 years, January 16th has been recognized annually in the United States as Religious Freedom Day. Diane Moore and Dudley Rose discuss religious freedom as a principle based not on shared ancestry, culture, or faith but on a shared commitment to...

In visit to HDS, Toni Morrison illuminates concepts of virtue, and its opposite.

This talk contradicts the longstanding reading of Emerson as invested in idealism and instead charts his obsession with matter both organic and inorganic, organized and unorganized. By attending to his interest in sciences of life, Branka Arsić...

Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies, spoke on November 9 as part of the series "Have Mercy: The Religious Dimensions of the Writings of Toni Morrison." Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities...

Terry Tempest Williams, the 2017–18 Writer-in-Residence at Harvard Divinity School, delivers the 2018 Ingersoll Lecture. She has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A...

Panelists Mara Willard, Jay Williams, Josslyn Luckett, and HDS professors Stephanie Paulsell and David Carrasco spoke on December 6 as part of the series "Have Mercy: The Religious Dimensions of the Writings of Toni Morrison." Toni Morrison, the Robert F...

"Refiguring American Jewish Identity through Solidarity with Palestinians: A Relational Approach to Religious Innovation" by Atalia Omer , Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and Society and Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict and...

Joel S. Kaminsky, Professor of Religion and Morningstar Family Professor in Jewish Studies at Smith College, delivers the 2015 Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture. Much recent scholarship has portrayed the book of Job as sweeping away an...

An HDS series probes aspects of religion in the Nobelist author's writings.

Harvard President Drew Faust installs Jonathan Walton as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church.

On April 7, 2014, Harvard Divinity School held its annual Stendahl Symposium.