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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...

"The notion of a stranger, for me—the way I was raised and the way that I studied—is that the stranger just might hold the key to your liberation" Continuing Divinity Dialogues—a special edition podcast series from Harvard Divinity School that puts...

Acclaimed expert on biblical, gnostic, and apocryphal writings, Willis Barnstone explores the question, were early Christians Pharisee Jews like Saint Paul? Barnstone is a poet and translator of ancient and modern texts. A four-time recipient of the Book...

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

In 1871, Thomas Nast drew an editorial cartoon about Catholic immigration to the United States. Entitled "The American River Ganges," it depicts bishops as crocodiles emerging from the ocean on all fours, scales on their backs and mitres transformed into...

The Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School has received a $45,000 grant from the Luce Foundation for a three-year series of lectures and events in comparative theology. Comparative theology is distinguished by the dynamics of...

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

"We at Harvard must be a model. . . . It is true that the climate change and the challenge of sustainability are global problems. But climate change is also a local problem. Solving it begins with each of us. Every person at Harvard—student, faculty...

With every human society growing more religiously and culturally pluralistic, the study of world religions has never been more crucial to stability, progress, and peace. This was the theme of presentations given at the annual Leadership Day celebration at...

This summer, thanks to several generous gifts in support of Dean David N. Hempton’s campaign initiatives, HDS continued its ongoing effort to provide students with financial support so that they can serve communities locally and abroad through...

On April 4, the HDS community celebrated the inaugural cohort of Gomes Memorial Honors recipients. Four distinguished alumni were honored: Reza Aslan, MTS '99; Susannah Heschel, MTS '76; the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, MTS '03; and Sarah Sentilles, MDiv...

Dean David Hempton has been elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Hempton, who is also the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, was admitted along with 28...