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HDS Sukkah Brings Faith Traditions Together

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A group of 11 HDS students, faculty, and friends recently gathered behind Andover Hall for what has become an annual tradition: Building the HDS sukkah. Led by Rabbi Sally Finestone, the denominational counselor to Jewish students at HDS, the multifaith...

Peter Gomes Receives Black Alumni/ae Award

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The Harvard Divinity School Alumni/ae Association is pleased to announce that the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Preston N. Williams Black Alumni/ae Award. He will...

Grounded in Tradition

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On a Thursday in early January, the Rev. Jeremy Battle, MDiv ’13, had all the concerns of any other Baptist pastor: planning music for Sunday's service, juggling various appointments, and responding to urgent news within the community. (In this case, a...

Video: Religion for a New Generation

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Casper ter Kuile, MDiv '16, MPP '16, and Angie Thurston, MDiv '16, map and convene the Millennial leaders of spiritual communities at the forefront of religious change. From CrossFit to dinner churches, Muslim small groups, and maker spaces, their work...

Video: HDS Gomes Honors Friend of the School Program

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HDS celebrated the 2021 Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Honors Friend of the School on May 11. Our 2021 Friend of the School is Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita of Harvard University the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, and longtime partner and...

A Ministry of Presence

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Whittney Barth graduated from HDS on May 26 with a master of divinity degree. Below, she describes how her life has been impacted by her experience at HDS, offers some advice for incoming students, and discusses her future plans. I was originally...

Why Religious Studies Matters

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In her Harvard Divinity School Convocation address, HDS Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura S. Nasrallah recalled her efforts studying a Greek mosaic and her pondering the sometimes obscurity of her work. "I wondered: Was I a...

A Second Career in Service

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Liz Walker was one of the most famous and successful TV news personalities in Boston. She spent more than two decades as a reporter, as well as being the first African American news anchor on WBZ-TV. So, when she stepped down from the anchor desk, many of...

'Jump into the River of Life'

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Sally Hammel, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks during the Tuesday morning Ecumenical Eucharist in Andover Chapel on April 2, 2019. ♦♦♦ The Lord brought me back to the entrance of the temple; there, water was flowing from below the threshold...