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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...

Mary E. Hunt, MTS ’74, has no time for hand-wringing. She’s deeply concerned about the future of the country and the world, particularly since last November’s election. She speaks with a sense of urgency about the plight of immigrants, refugees, people of...

Before he became an award-winning poet and Episcopal priest, Spencer Reece, MTS ’90, attended Harvard Divinity School. He took classes on Flannery O’Connor, the Bible, and the nineteenth-century Transcendentalist writer, poet, and HDS student Ralph Waldo...

On February 7, HDS kicked off its second annual film festival with a screening of the critically-acclaimed documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018). The film’s executive producer, Geralyn Dreyfous, appeared via Skype following the screening for a...

Rosemarie Smurzynski, MTS '80, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on March 11, 2019. ♦♦♦ At 10, I read books on Greek Myths. I searched the sky to pick out the mythic gods outlined among the stars. All I could...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) is pleased to announce four new members, who will begin terms of service on July 1, 2013: Peter K. Anagnostos, MTS '86, of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv '10, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Shenila...

If ministry is a call, Willie Bodrick II had a clear response for most of his life: No. "People say you run to your calling, but I ran from mine," Bodrick says. "Everyone told me all my life, 'You ought to be a preacher.' I never really felt like I was...

It is the calling of her life: to bring forward what she describes as "the small voice." This is the shared voice of the abused and raped, the orphaned and marginalized. This is the voice that Elizabeth Siwo-Okundi recognizes, and that is the subject of...

The California State GOP overwhelmingly voted on March 1 to recognize the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), a conservative group that supports gay and lesbian rights. The move was seen as a sea change for a party whose platform still officially opposes...

Harvard Divinity School has announced recipients of the three alumni awards that will be presented on its Alumni Day, June 5, 2002. At a luncheon held on the HDS campus, the First Decade Award will be given to Robert Ellsberg, Editor-in-Chief of Orbis...

Like many HDS alumni/alumnae who choose a different path than ordination, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS ’84, shares her classmates' commitment to ethics and values. Donahoe came to the Divinity School to delve deeply into philosophical and moral...

This summer, thanks to several generous gifts in support of Dean David N. Hempton’s campaign initiatives, HDS continued its ongoing effort to provide students with financial support so that they can serve communities locally and abroad through...