Search

Krister Stendahl, who played a crucial role in shaping the life and work of Harvard Divinity School, just as he was also a pioneer in the broader realm of ecumenical relations, died on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at the age of 86. He had been in failing...

"I’m interested in the cross section of where creativity and compassion intersect. I want to use my camera to help others express themselves and to communicate different issues that need more understanding and empathy."— Brenda Bancel, Special Student ‘17

The Choice, a play by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, will have its world premiere in a staged reading at 8 pm Sunday, April 12, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. It is directed by HDS postdoctoral fellow Guila Clara Kessous.

Eliza Griswold, a poet, writer, and journalist, reads from poems she's written this year at HDS, and present the blueprint of her Berggruen Fellowship project mapping Syrian artists, filmmakers, poets, and writers since the revolution began. Listen

Given its practical goal, its theological purposes, and its lack of accountability to external data of the sort in which archaeologists trade, biblical historiography has a malleability that many modern readers find difficult to approve, writes Professor...

Harvard Magazine writes about HDS alum and choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s "dance diplomacy."

Award-winning American poet Susan Howe visited Harvard Divinity School on April 24 to speak about the binding together of freedom and law, spontaneity and habit, as occasions for awakening a reader to the exaltation of spirit in process. Crossing the...

In 1815, the Reverend William Ellery Channing laid out a vision for the graduates of the institution that would become Harvard Divinity School. In a fundraising circular written over the signature of Harvard President John T. Kirkland, Channing wrote that...

Erez Golan, MTS '16, was selected by his student colleagues as the class speaker for HDS Commencement 2016. The following remarks were delivered by Golan at the Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 26. When I completed my undergraduate degree in Israel, we...

On March 1, 2019, Harvard Divinity School hosted its third annual Black Religion, Spirituality, and Culture Conference. The theme was Blackness at the Margins. The conference aimed to represent and engage with as many aspects of blackness as possible...

As students face new financial pressures, HDS marshals new resources to meet the challenge. Space is sacred to Jarred Batchelor Hamilton. At HDS, the Master of Divinity candidate studies places that enable people to connect with one another and with the...

Harvard Divinity School launched this week Religion and Public Life (RPL), a new initiative and degree program with the core mission to advance the public understanding of religion in service of a just world at peace. The master of religion and public...