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Eboni Haynes has gone by many names: actress, Angeleno, Catholic—but now she prefers Nola, in homage to her beleaguered and beloved hometown of New Orleans. "After the Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010, friends started calling me Nola, and I liked it,"...

From June 18 to 29, 2001, 49 people from all over the United States attended the Summer Leadership Institute (SLI), sponsored by Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life to train clergy, lay leaders, and community developers...

The fences are up, the hard hats are on, and ground has been broken on the most sweeping campus renewal effort in Harvard Divinity School’s 200-year history. When complete, the modernization and expansion of Swartz (originally Andover) Hall, the School’s...

Sevea studies the role of spirit mediums in the South and Southeast Asian Islamic world Teren Sevea grew up in a “universe of miracle workers.” They were in shrines, in cemeteries, in homes, and coffee shops, and, of course, on the streets of Southeast...

In 2012, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison took the stage at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and spoke to a rapt audience about goodness, altruism, and the literary imagination. On that very same stage Thursday afternoon, Harvard Divinity School (HDS)...

Here . . . time is measured in bells. — noe venable Her performance on the evening of June 2 in Andover Chapel did not seem like that of an amateur. The acting, the singing, the writing—this was surely the creation of an experienced playwright or...

Rockefeller Hall at Harvard Divinity School has been awarded LEED Gold certification through the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a rating system that assesses a building's potential...

MDiv candidate Tim Gallati is studying experiences of “silence” in nature and contemplative practice with applications in virtual and augmented realities. His research focuses on accounts of listening to “silence” in sound art, poetry, and Catholic...

When Matthew Potts, Professor of Religion and Ministry Studies, and Terry Tempest Williams, Harvard Divinity School’s 2017-18 writer-in-residence, both participated in a panel last fall, they had no idea it would lead to co-teaching a class together. The...

The following personal reflection was written by Chloe Merrell, student at the University of Cambridge. Chloe was awarded the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship, allowing her to study at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2019-20 as a...

The HDS community is home to practitioners and scholars of dozens of different religions—and to those who have no formal religious affiliation at all. One is as likely to bump into a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka on campus as a Unitarian Universalist from...

Harvard Divinity School has announced that alumnus Thomas M. Chappell received the Dean's Distinguished Service Award on Thursday, April 8, 2010, during the annual meeting of the School's Leadership Council. A 1991 graduate of the School, Chappell is the...