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Dean David N. Hempton offers insight into the history of the Methodist faith, of which Hillary Clinton is a follower.

Delman Coates, MDiv '98, the senior pastor at Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Maryland, weighs in on how African-American church leaders are responding to new challenges in the crisis in police-community relations.

What does the Hebrew word Seder mean? What group performs the Passover sacrifice even to this day? What does Lent commemorate? Test your knowledge of the traditions and origins of two major religious holidays with an HDS quiz on Passover and Easter. Take...

"Breaking the hold of hard Catholic Gnosticism is a step toward healing the softer Gnosticism of seekers in the wider world," writes Professor Francis Clooney.

"Ross Douthat’s To Change the Church is a highly readable but to my taste over-dramatized account of the papacy of Francis," writes Professor Frank Clooney.

Being holy is never a private thing; it is also a matter of being a good neighbor, messenger of peace, a healer and servant, a builder of community, particularly across religious borders, writes Professor Frank Clooney.

HDS Professor Giovanni Bazzana led his students on a journey exploring Jesus Christ as a man beyond—and before—the writings of the New Testament.

HDS professor and director of the CSWR Francis X. Clooney, S.J. discusses the importance of comparative religious study and his unique path from Brooklyn to Nepal to Cambridge.

“You’d walk into any cathedral or church and the whole idea was to capture the meaning of the Gospel and the Bible visually with stained-glass windows and frescoes, all kinds of paintings and just a lot of visual material,” says Professor Harvey Cox.

HDS Professor Todne Thomas and Columbia University Professor Courtney Bender c onsider the big destructive events or scenes associated with the end times with more subtle infrastructural degradations, moral shifts from government to citizen, deregulation...

In response to a recent interview with Pope Francis, HDS professor and CSWR director Francis X. Clooney, S.J., examines the pontiff's rather novel view of “Europe” in relation to Christendom, and his analysis of fearful responses to Islam.

K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer on American Religious History and Ethics, writes that only by following former FBI director James Comey’s efforts to be a Niebuhrian can we fully understand his recent book, A Higher Loyalty, and begin to untangle some of the...