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On January 10, 2013, John S. Wilson (MTS '81, EdM '82, EdD '85; executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities; incoming president of Morehouse College) shared reflections on his experiences as a leader in...

Dean David N. Hempton and Harvard President Drew Faust gathered with faculty, students, and alumni on the HDS campus April 4 to celebrate the launch of the Divinity School’s capital campaign. The festivities included panel discussions on religion and the...

On April 3, the alumni recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors spoke at the final Divinity Dialogues event of the 2013-14 academic year. The panelists were: Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS '84; Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93...

The 2015-16 academic year provided many memorable moments at HDS. As we head toward Commencement, we take a look back at some of the events that made this academic year so meaningful and special. [[{"fid":642811,"view_mode":"default","type":"media"...

The 2018 Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial honorees speak for the final installment of this year’s Divinity Dialogues. The panelists were: Robert Michael Franklin, MDiv '78; Jalane D. Schmidt, MDiv '96, AM '05, PhD '05; Simran Jeet Singh, MTS '08; Karen I...

During shopping week, Benjamin Grimm ducked into Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana Eck’s “Religion in India: Texts and Traditions in a Complex Society,” his sixth class of the morning. “I fell in love with it,” he says, laughing....

“I had one interaction with a patient who had trouble talking and had to communicate by writing on notebook paper. And as she struggled to write, she told me that she was preparing to be her husband’s co-caretaker now that they were both in a place of...

“I’ve spent time in the Republic of Armenia, and in ‘Western Armenia’ (now Eastern Turkey). A lot of our churches have been desecrated and destroyed, and those of us who are fortunate to survive have a responsibility not only to know what we’ve lost, but...

When the renewed Swartz Hall finally reopened its doors this semester, it welcomed members of the HDS and Harvard communities separated since the start of the pandemic to a renewed building, one that reflects a changed (and changing) Divinity School.

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

The Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, MDiv '97, was the first speaker in a series of Divinity Dialogues, held October 11 in Divinity Chapel. White-Hammond is the co-pastor of Bethel AME Church, Boston, executive director of My Sister's Keeper, and a retired...

Dean William A. Graham delivered the keynote address at the 2012 HDS Leadership Day, held on March 30. Leadership Day is a celebration for Harvard Divinity School leadership-level supporters and volunteers, including members of the Dean's, Leadership, and...