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Curated by Terry Tempest Williams and Geralyn White Dreyfous, “The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination” is a special film series and salon open to all members of the Harvard community as well as the general public. The films, which...

HDS Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West delivered the 2017 Convocation address titled "Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, Prophetic Fightback." His remarks can be read below. A video of the ceremony and a recap are available...

How should we view the Puritans and their religious and cultural legacy? HDS Professor David Hall spoke about this question on the Seekers and Scholars podcast from the Mary Baker Eddy Library.

How is our lived experience of religion and spirituality changing? Where are the boundaries of religion being tested and transformed? How will scholars and practitioners define and understand religion in the future? A multi-generational panel of scholars...

Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1819, Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing spoke at a Baltimore church and delivered what would be described nearly two centuries later as probably the most important Unitarian sermon ever preached anywhere. Now, the...

Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies Stephanie Paulsell was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Commencement Service on May 24, 2017. Below are her remarks: Professor Walton, Dean Hempton, dear colleagues...

HDS students develop a deep and intellectually rigorous understanding of the world’s religious traditions and the ways in which they shape the lives of people everywhere. They learn to bridge divides of faith, culture, gender, and more by participating...

A group of Boston community leaders recently addressed a large audience at Harvard Divinity School’s Religions and the Practice of Peace (RPP) Colloquium, in an event focused on the inspirational work being done in the city’s African American communities...

In the spring of 2006, Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School was contacted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., with an expressed interest in obtaining copies of the library's records of the Unitarian...

Harvard Divinity School Senior Lecturer Diane Moore has modest goals for her upcoming online course, " World Religions Through Their Scripture." She merely wants to increase religious understanding, open up crucial dialogues, and change the world—or at...

On the evening of February 27, two swastikas and the phrase “race office” were carved into the front doors of the Fourth Universalist Society in New York. On Friday, March 10, that church community hosted an Interfaith Solidarity event in response to the...

November 11, 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, a conflict that claimed the lives of nearly nine million soldiers and civilians, with more than three times that number wounded, taken prisoner, or gone missing. One century later...