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Kevin Cranston, MDiv '86, assistant commissioner in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the director of the state’s Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, spoke about how he and his team are working hard tracking cases of...

Seonjoon Young’s diverse career has taken her all over the world. After college, Young, MDiv '17, entered a Buddhist nunnery in South Korea before pursuing a master’s degree at HDS. While working as a chaplain, she fell in love with teaching and has now...

Harvard Magazine writes about HDS alum and choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s "dance diplomacy."

Salt Lake City’s First Unitarian Church is turning to the Rev. Ian White Maher, MDiv ’04, a contemplative Harvard Divinity School-educated minister and educator to help chart its future.

The Rev. Liz Walker, MDiv '05, speaks on the theme of "risk" at the first installment of this year's distinguished alumni speaker series, Divinity Dialogues. Besides serving as a minister and pastor at Roxbury Presbyterian Church, Walker is also a...

HDS students Aisha Ansano, Ryan Cogswell, Taj Smith, and Christopher Whiteman deliver sermons for the Billings Preaching Prize Competition during Noon Service on April 15, 2015. The annual preaching competition is open to second- and third-year MDiv...

Longtime presidential adviser and Harvard Kennedy School professor David Gergen captivated a packed audience during the Dean's Leadership Forum in a wide-ranging conversation with HDS Dean David N. Hempton on religion, politics, and public life. Read more

On Friday, April 28, and Saturday, April 29, HDS celebrated its bicentennial. Alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends took part in the joyous celebration and special reunion day on Saturday. Many of them shared pictures, quotes, and thoughts about...

Ministry Innovation Fellows Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston discuss their work to understand where millennial Americans go to find community and how leaders can expand the spiritual offerings of traditional churches.

“The idea of Shabbat—the way that I’ve always taken it to heart, or what makes me feel better when I’m so overwhelmed with work and asking, “How can I take a day off?”—is the guiding principle that you spend six days changing the world and then one day...

Chris Alburger, MDiv '15, may very well be the first chaplain in America hired specifically for LGBTQ senior care. He is definitely the first-ever LGBTQ Chaplain Resident at Hebrew SeniorLife. Chris discusses his job, the impact he’s had on residents, and...

“A few months after my daughter was born, we moved to Colombia. My plan was to work part time, to take advantage of having my family around to help out with my daughter. But rather than working for pay, I ended up doing volunteer work. That year in...