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"We spend a lot of time in denial that we are going to die. With all the choices that we make, how many would we revise and do differently if we were aware that we are mortal?" That question was posed earlier this fall at the Waking Up to Dying Project's...

Kent French, MDiv '07 and Senior Pastor at The United Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 2, 2019. ♦♦♦

The Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, MDiv ’97, was the first speaker in a series of Divinity Dialogues, held October 11 in Divinity Chapel. White-Hammond is the co-pastor of Bethel AME Church, Boston, executive director of My Sister’s Keeper, and a retired...

This discussion took place during the 2003 Dean's Weekend. BILL GRAHAM: Our second panel takes up our question and moves it a little bit further in discussing the encounter with religion in the modern university. We have a group that's going to bring a...

At a Noon Service hosted in the spring by the HDS Garden Group, the Rev. Dr. María Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa, MDiv ’07, ThD ’16, shared a single ear of multicolored corn with those present. Vlassidis Burgoa, who was studying indigenous traditions and...

This lecture is a womanist critique of a longstanding racist campaign of domestic terror in the United States. It investigated the intersectionality of racism, in particular the racist acts condoned by religious communities and by the health care system...

K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer on American Religious History and Ethics, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 20, 2020. ♦♦♦

Corita Kent, an American Catholic nun, educator, and artist, is the subject of what have become two popular exhibits currently on display at Harvard, one of which was curated with the help of an HDS alum. Eva Payne, MDiv '10, helped curate the exhibit "...

Violence is not inevitable in stressed and oppressed communities and the building of peace in those communities requires the building of bridges between unlikely collaborators. That's the lesson learned in Boston over three decades of trying to change the...

Ann Braude, Senior Lecturer on American Religious History and director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on March 11, 2020. ♦♦♦

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...

William A. Graham, former HDS Dean and Murray A. Albertson Research Professor of Middle Eastern Studies (FAS), delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 20, 2019.