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From June 18 to 29, 2001, 49 people from all over the United States attended the Summer Leadership Institute (SLI), sponsored by Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life to train clergy, lay leaders, and community developers...

Harvard President Drew Faust installs Jonathan Walton as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church.

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...

John Silvanus Wilson Jr., MTS '81 and senior advisor and strategist to the President of Harvard University, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on September 6, 2019.

With a $40,000 grant, Don Abram, MDiv '19, has embarked on a project he calls “Pride in the Pews.” He plans to collect 66 stories of Black queer Christians—66, he notes, is the number of books in the Bible—in the hopes that the stories will open closed...

Harvard Divinity School is honored to host "Caring for Life on Earth in the Twenty-first Century," a talk presented by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje. The talk, which is sponsored by HDS, the Harvard College Freshman Dean's...

Pope Francis's much-anticipated encyclical on the environment, issued June 18, was received with both relief and concern, as it raised important questions to all of us—Christian or not, Catholic or otherwise. Francis's 184-page document (PDF) had several...

New Memorial Church minister Jonathan Walton has won a wide range of admirers in his time at Harvard.

Jonathan Walton, HDS Professor and the new Pusey Minister of Harvard's Memorial Church, delivered the "Freshman Sunday" sermon on September 2.

Hundreds of people crowded Harvard's Memorial Church on April 6 to honor the life and legacy of the Rev. Peter J. Gomes.

Rev. Jessica Crist, MDiv '78, was elected chair of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Conference of Bishops.

Elizabeth Eaton, MDiv '80, has been named the first female presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.