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This past fall, Susanna Drake taught a seminar on one of the most contentious religious objects in the world today: the veil. Drake, an associate professor at Macalester College who received her MTS from HDS and is back this year as a Research Associate...

One of Jacob Olupona's earliest memories in Massachusetts is of nearly freezing in his apartment as a graduate student at Boston University during the great snowstorm of 1978. "I had it. I told my father that I was coming home," he recalled. But after...

On March 23, Mark Heim, Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Theological School, offered reflections on the kind of self that is implied by Christian theological terms and the ways in which this matches up with Buddhist...

Laura S. Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, has been named one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (PDF) for 2013-14 by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and...

Mark D. Jordan, a pioneer in sexual ethics and a wide-ranging scholar of the history of Christianity, theology, and gender studies, has been named the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School, with a joint appointment in...

As head of religion research at the "fact tank" Pew Research Center, Alan Cooperman deals heavily in numbers. But he also knows that "numbers seldom tell the whole story," and that the students and scholars at Harvard are the people who can provide...

Can you love your neighbor as you punch him in the face? That's one of the questions posed by the documentary Fight Church, which will be screened at Harvard during an event on Monday, October 20, hosted by the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at...

On October 10, 2012, four scholars spoke on the relevance of different religions in this year's presidential election. The panelists were: J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Kennedy...

Doug Jones pulled off an upset victory December 12 over Republican Roy Moore by becoming first Democrat to claim a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years. According to preliminary exit polling conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool, the...

"I think 'Make America Great Again' is broader than just an evangelical attitude. But it is, in many ways, tailor-made for them—they hear that and they absolutely hear, 'We need to make America Christian, the way it used to be when it was run by White...

Helmut Koester, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus, died on New Year’s Day, 2016, at age 89. Koester was a leading scholar in the history of Christianity, New Testament exegesis and...

Update: This event has been postponed due to inclement weather in New York City, which prevented Professor Cone from being able to travel. Tragedies of the past year, including the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York...