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Jeremy Jones is a first-year ThM candidate at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Before coming to Boston, he spent three years pursuing a Master of Divinity degree at Africa International University in Nairobi, Kenya. He participated in...

"Our lives are so fragile. They always have been. We are always living on the brink, on the edge, at the threshold. Every single day carries the possibility of our last judgment. Every breath is a prelude to the apocalypse. As the philosopher and mystic...

"As people are leaving formal institutions—they're no longer members of a congregation—it doesn't mean that their spirituality no longer exists. They're still looking for community. They're still looking for mentorship and intergenerational connection...

Congratulations to the class of 2015, who received their diplomas during the HDS Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 28, 2015. Melissa Bartholomew, MDiv '15, was selected by her peers to deliver the student address. You can read the full text of it here.

Nancy Cahners, MTS '03, and Mel Kawakami, MDiv '74, ThM '87, spoke on October 9 about their experiences at HDS—and their work after graduation—to a packed audience on the Divinity School campus as part of the first Divinity Dialogues event of the 2014-15...

On May 21, HDS professor Diana Eck presented "Religious Pluralism and the Global Workplace: The Challenges Ahead" in New York City, as part of the Business across Religious Traditions series, which is made possible through the generosity H. Bruce McEver...

On May 15 in New York City, WSRP Research Associate Zilka Spahic Šiljak spoke about her new book, Shining Humanity: Life Stories of Women Peace-builders in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The event moderator was Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in...

Nearly a hundred alumni and friends flocked to the HDS campus on Friday, April 5, for Leadership Day. Attendees heard from University President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean David Hempton on the role of the study of religion at Harvard; cheered as Dean's...

The HDS community began its 2005-06 academic year on Monday, September 19, with a Convocation address by Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer in American Religious History, at Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall...

HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. Words of...

"COVID-19 brutalizes bodies, but it also disempowers families who are unable to see their loved ones, sit at their bedsides and hold their hands," writes Bridget Power, MDiv '19, a chaplain resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

"Taking the HDS course 'Change, Adversity and Spiritual Resilience' opened my eyes to the extent of the spiritual crisis that people are walking through whenever they are undergoing change, whether positive or negative," says Keona Wynne, PhD candidate at...