HDS ministry innovation fellow Angie Thurston, MDiv '16, writes about finding purpose in community as she works to map a landscape of life-giving organizations that are emerging even as religious affiliation declines.
Johnna Loreen, MTS '18, works as an education navigator, advocating for and advising people who want to start or continue their education upon their release from incarceration.
Don Abram, MDiv ’19, is the founder of Pride in the Pews, a nonprofit that seeks to amplify the voices and experiences of queer Christians in the Black Church.
Sarah Sturm, MTS ’20, works as the program coordinator for partnerships at Telos, a nonprofit that builds communities of American peacemakers and equips them to help reconcile global conflicts.
Cameron Partridge, HDS lecturer and graduate, talks about his transgender and spiritual journeys, his discomfort with simplistic views of male and female, and feeling at home in Anglicanism.
“Coming to HDS is my story of leaving the war place. Part of my motivation to come here was about me wanting to find beauty in the midst of ugliness.”—Farah Zahra, MDiv ’17
HDS Ministry Innovation Fellow Casper ter Kuile discusses how more and more, gathering for church no longer means coming together for Sunday morning worship with hymns and preaching under a steeple.
The HDS alumna's debut poetry collection "The Weather and Our Tempers" has gotten the attention of the Wall Street Journal. Learn how her academic work and poetry mingle.
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 Rev. Dr. Rena Joyce Weller Karefa-Smart, the first black woman to earn a doctor of theology degree from HDS in 1976 and a leader in the international movement to bring churches closer together, died on Jan. 9. She was 97.