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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...

Only two years after its launch in April 2014, the Campaign for HDS is already having an impact on every aspect of the School's mission. New professorships enable HDS to extend its expertise in the study of the world's religious traditions and the ways...

In just a few days, 120 graduate students and early career scholars will converge at Harvard Divinity School for the second annual "Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion." The conference, held October 25-26, will feature panelists from 60...

Stephanie Paulsell is the Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies. On October 14, 2018, she delivered the sermon during Sunday Services at Memorial Church. Below are her remarks. ♦♦♦

Twenty-three years ago, the spring issue of Harvard Divinity Bulletin included the following announcement: "Henri J.M. Nouwen, a Dutch priest, theologian, psychologist, and noted author has accepted an appointment at HDS as Professor of Divinity and...

Harvard University was named best in the world for the study of divinity, theology, and religion by the influential QS World University Rankings for 2019. It was the third year in a row that the School’s programs earned the distinction. (Find out about...

Harvard Divinity School has collected some thoughts and analysis from faculty, students, and colleagues relevant to the April 15 attack in Boston. Our hope is that these works give perspective on the events, bring the HDS community together, and/or...

As a Volunteer in Mission with the Presbyterian Church, USA, in Thailand in the late 1980s, Rick Santos found himself in the middle of great socioeconomic and cultural shifts in Southeast Asia. Santos, MTS ’92, now president and CEO of the global public...

Professor of Religion and Latina/o Studies Mayra Rivera cares about bodies: bodies sent to war, where they are harmed; bodies relegated to slums that are unhealthy or workplaces that are unsafe; bodies that are the place where flesh and blood meet spirit...

The Pamphlet is a new podcast devoted to the surprising history of Unitarian Universalism, including its connections to pirates in the colonial era and to Communist spies in the 1950s. HDS alumnus Sean Neil-Barron, MDiv ’15, who cocreated the podcast...

Charles Stang, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions and Professor of Early Christian Thought, delivered the first Price Lecture of 2019 at Trinity Church Boston on March 10, 2019. ♦♦♦ First of all, I’d like to thank Bill, Patrick, and...

On August 2, the Vatican announced a change in the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty. The new teaching rejects the notion that capital punishment is legitimate in some cases, declaring that “‘the death penalty is...