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The 2014 Gomes Honors recipients were recognized in a ceremony on April 3, 2014, in Andover Chapel. Winners this year were: Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS '84; Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93; Elizabeth A. Eaton, MDiv '80; and Peter J. Isely, MDiv...

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...

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...

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...

In this year's Stendahl Symposium, four Harvard Divinity School students present their papers centered around the broad topic of "conversations across religious boundaries." The Stendahl Symposium has become an annual HDS tradition in memory of former...

In the second Divinity Dialogues event of the 2014–15 academic year, Sejal H. Patel, MTS '14, and Suzanne Skees, MTS '92, discuss the role of care in their work. Patel is a San Francisco-based writer, criminal defense lawyer, and former federal prosecutor...

The Alumni/Alumnae Council brought the second installment of the 2014-15 Divinity Dialogues speaker series to the West Coast. Speakers Sejal H. Patel, MTS '14, and Suzanne Skees, MTS '92, addressed a theme of great importance to ourselves, our communities...

Part of the Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium Dinner Series, this event was held on October 6, 2016, and featured 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. Listen on...

Harvard Divinity School has collected some thoughts and analysis from faculty, students, and colleagues relevant to the April 15 attack in Boston. Our hope is that these works give perspective on the events, bring the HDS community together, and/or...

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...

Following the award ceremony on April 4 for the inaugural Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors, the alumni honorees formed a panel of speakers for the third and final installment of this year's Divinity Dialogues: Conversations with the Alumni/Alumnae...

On September 14, Alumni/Alumnae council chairperson Ruth B. Purtilo, MTS '75, PhD '79, facilitated a discussion on what our experience of living core religious values means. Presenters included Ruth Purtilo; William A. Graham, dean; Dudley C. Rose...