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HDS and Harvard had a role in several timeless holiday carols.

These are challenging times for churches in the United States. Membership is dropping in virtually all Christian denominations, but especially mainline Protestantism. The “nones”— Americans unaffiliated with any religion—are on the rise: they now...

In this issue: The Varieties of an HDS Experience; A Message From the Dean; News From Around the School; Not Knowing What to Expect, Diving in Headfirst; In Troubled Times, Offering Safe Haven Download this issue

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...

Watch a short film about how HDS is developing leaders for a religiously complex world.

HDS alumna Kristen Lovett on the importance of working together and avoiding the binaries that leave too many people out of the collective framework.

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...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) today announced the opening of the nomination process for the 2015 cohort of recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors. Inaugurated in 2013 and given annually, the award honors a small group of graduates...

Breaking Up with God: I Didn't Lose My Faith, I Left It

Valarie Kaur, MTS '07, writes on CNN.com about the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Wisconsin at a Sikh temple.

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...

“Recently, I have realized that, at the bottom of everything, I came to the study of South Asian religion and Indian philosophy because I couldn’t imagine not reading Sanskrit every day.”— Eliot Davenport, MTS '18