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I arrived at the church 15 minutes late. This was a bad omen for the rest of the afternoon—or so I thought. I had gotten lost, very lost, but I was not without direction. The young attendant seated behind the counter of a gas station on Route 66 had done...

In July 2013, HDS Dean David N. Hempton received an honorary doctorate of literature from Queen's University Belfast, his undergraduate alma mater, where he later returned as a lecturer in modern history. In front of Queen's faculty, staff, and students...

"The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote in Requiem for a Nun. “It's not even past." Faulkner’s sentiment was top of mind for HDS Senior Lecturer Ann Braude when she and her team of three doctoral students took on the Herculean task of telling the...

This fall, Harvard Divinity School brings Russell Banks, one of the United States' most celebrated writers of contemporary fiction, to Harvard to deliver the annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality. The talk will take place on Wednesday, November 5, at 5...

Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday in the United States after Christmas, with Americans spending an estimated $6 billion annually. But while most people are familiar with the origins of the Christmas story, the background of...

Kerry Maloney, chaplain and director of religious and spiritual life at Harvard Divinity School and Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church, reflects on the combination of hope and lament that thread through our days in lockdown and reminds us to find...

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., has been appointed the next director of the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School, beginning July 1, 2010. He will succeed Donald K. Swearer, who is retiring at the end of June after six years...

On a Friday morning in early fall 1911, members of both Andover Theological Seminary and Harvard Divinity School gathered in the chapel of the newly built Andover Hall to dedicate the building. One hundred years later, after repairs and additions (and...

Matthew Potts, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature and of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School and Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church considers rituals of love and service in a season of social distancing. On Maundy Thursday in...

2020 Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honoree Milia Islam, MTS ’04, was eight years old when her family moved to the United States from Bangladesh, settling eventually in Fulton, MO. The small town was overwhelmingly white and very...

Efforts to make the world ever more sustainable and less wasteful have been an operations priority at Harvard Divinity School for several years now, but the 2008–09 academic year saw the first application of this green philosophy as it relates to the...

Believing that a month should be dedicated to the celebration and teaching of gay and lesbian history, Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, gathered other educators and community leaders to discuss the issue in 1994. The group selected October...