Search

"Many of us regret that churches are closed this week, services canceled or only online. But Holy Week is happening. It is not as if the last days of Jesus, and the last supper, the washing of the feet, the agony in the garden, the dying on Friday and...

Matthew Potts, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature and of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School and Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church considers rituals of love and service in a season of social distancing. On Maundy Thursday in...

Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday in the United States after Christmas, with Americans spending an estimated $6 billion annually. But while most people are familiar with the origins of the Christmas story, the background of...

C. Conrad Wright, Professor of American Church History Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, died peacefully at home in his sleep on February 17, 2011, at the age of 94. Wright was a prominent scholar of American Unitarianism, and he had a significant...

Harvard Divinity School has announced recipients of the three alumni awards that will be presented on its Alumni Day, June 5, 2002. At a luncheon held on the HDS campus, the First Decade Award will be given to Robert Ellsberg, Editor-in-Chief of Orbis...

I arrived at the church 15 minutes late. This was a bad omen for the rest of the afternoon—or so I thought. I had gotten lost, very lost, but I was not without direction. The young attendant seated behind the counter of a gas station on Route 66 had done...

Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies and Interim Pusey Minister at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on January 27, 2020. ♦♦♦

For Mary Setterholm, MDiv '13, her lived experience with sexual and gender-based violence motivates and informs her ministry. Setterholm is currently a pastoral activist with Serenity Sisters, and she was one of four faith leaders who participated in a...

Sheila Glenn wasn't always "the Rev. Sheila Glenn." As a young adult, the pastor from New York City got swept up in the drug culture and was an addict for many years before making the choice to seek treatment. That choice led her back to church, to...

Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, speaks on moral courage and civil disobedience.

Teddy Hickman-Maynard has been named associate dean for ministry studies at Harvard Divinity School, starting August 2. In this role, Hickman-Maynard will oversee the School’s master of divinity program. “I am delighted that Teddy Hickman-Maynard will...

Sally Hammel, MDiv candidate and a seminarian at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 27, 2020. ♦♦♦