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“Taproot: Stories of Nature & Restoration,” convened thinkers from a variety of backgrounds, who spoke about everything from indigenous communities, to religion, to mental health, each in relation to nature and humans’ complex relationship with it.

Growing numbers of people are finding meaningful community in places outside of church. Learn how the CEO of CrossFit, Greg Glassman, thinks of his work as church, perhaps even religion.

In this year’s Stendahl Symposium, four Harvard Divinity School students present their papers centered around the broad topic of “conversations across religious boundaries.” Listen iTunes SoundCloud

America is no longer a majority white Christian nation. Journalist, author, commentator, and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne and Dr. Robert P. Jones, author of The End of White Christian America, discuss this seismic change, its impact on the...

As part of the Divinity School's Leadership Day, held April 5, Harvard President Drew Faust and HDS Dean David Hempton sat down to discuss the role of the study of religion and spiritual life in the 21st century—at Harvard and beyond. The talk was...

Scholars and educators discuss the different ways Asian and Western Buddhists engage in ministry at "Education and Buddhist Ministry: Whither—and Why?", a conference hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Buddhist Ministry Initiative. The conference, funded...

What knowledge and assumptions about religion do faith-based and secular international humanitarian agencies have? How do these assumptions impact their work? What kind of knowledge about religion is most useful? Watch A symposium on January 19–20, 2017...

Beverly Mayne Kienzle of the Harvard Divinity School and Nancy Nienhuis of Andover Newton Theological School discuss their research on historical and contemporary narratives of battering. Robert Hensley-King moderates the conversation. Historical and...

On December 4, 2013, Gary Anderson, Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, spoke about the concept of charity in Jewish and Christian thought.

Giovanni Bazzana , Associate Professor of New Testament at HDS, answers questions about his new book, Kingdom of Bureaucracy: The Political Theology of Village Scribes in the Sayings Gospel Q, ahead of a talk at the CSWR on Tuesday, February 23.

Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa aims to rethink how such an evolution in the study of Islamic scholarship in Africa today occurred. Listen

Panelists at the Buddhism and Race Conference address how to adapt practices to address the racial aspects of suffering.