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The Sacred in Harry Potter

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An online class on reading the Harry Potter books as sacred texts has proven a popular offering for the Humanist Hub at Harvard and a resulting podcast has since climbed as high as No. 2 on the iTunes top podcasts. It's led by Harvard Divinity School...

Humans of HDS: A Lifelong Path

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"Here we have the opportunity to build relationships and to learn from each other in a way that forms the building blocks of peace in society. I feel really proud to be a part of that, and privileged to be a part of the community."— Gloria Korsman, MDiv...

Nothing Can Separate Us

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"In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic—and the racism pandemic we have been fighting since my ancestors arrived from the West Coast of Africa, I am reminded that there is so much that we don’t know," says Melissa Wood Bartholomew, Associate Dean for...

Video: Divinity Dialogues: 2018 Gomes Honorees

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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...

Humans of HDS: Formations of My Identity

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“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...

Audio: 'The Nature Of Investing'

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Katherine Collins, MTS '11, is a professional investor who's managed billions of dollars of assets. Her new book, The Nature of Investing, lays out the nature-inspired principles she puts into practice today as head of her own research firm. She spoke...

Humans of HDS: Accepted Inside, Rejected Outside

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“I had not intended to go on into a ministry. I really had intended to take a year out and go back into foreign service, but after I had been there for about six months studying, I knew that this was the place where I wanted to be. I felt my calling was...

Video: Stories of Care

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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 Diplomats

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Steven Simon’s warning in the January 4, 2000, edition of the New York Times was like cold water in the face of Americans still bleary-eyed from partying like it was 1999. Simon, fresh from a counterterrorism assignment in the Clinton White House, and his...

Audio: The Life, Art, and Activism of Corita Kent

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Corita Kent, an American Catholic nun, educator, and artist, is the subject of what have become two popular exhibits currently on display at Harvard, one of which was curated with the help of an HDS alum. Eva Payne, MDiv '10, helped curate the exhibit "...

'Be the One'

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Ashley Lipscomb, MDiv '20, was selected by her student colleagues as the class speaker for HDS Commencement 2020. The following remarks were delivered by Lipscomb during the Virtual Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 28. ♦♦♦ "Continue" by Maya Angelou My...

The Power of Kindness

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Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion Kimberley C. Patton was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Commencement Service on May 25, 2016. Below are her remarks: Dean Hempton, members of the faculty, honored guests, alumni...