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The tradition of HDS graduates speaking and acting publicly—and often prophetically—extends back to the School’s earliest years. In his address to the graduating class of 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, HDS ’26, railed against a church “which seems to totter...

On February 20, Donald Trump resoundingly won the South Carolina Republican primary and reinforced his position as the leading GOP candidate for president. Exit polling showed that evangelicals accounted for 72 percent of the vote (up from 65 percent four...

In the spring of 2013, I arrived in Cambridge to attend the Open House for Admitted Students at Harvard Divinity School. I was nervous and still unsure about whether I would enroll at HDS later in the fall. I was fortunate to have other offers and to be...

Among the more than 300,000 people who took part in the People's Climate March in New York City on September 21 were former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and HDS student Annastasia Mullen. Mullen, MDiv '15, went to New York to join...

Erez Golan, MTS '16, was selected by his student colleagues as the class speaker for HDS Commencement 2016. The following remarks were delivered by Golan at the Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 26. When I completed my undergraduate degree in Israel, we...

The following sermon was delivered by Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University , and Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies at HDS. In three more days, the last students to...

Judith Lieu, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity Emerita at the University of Cambridge, will be the Frothingham Visiting Professor in New Testament and Early Christianity at HDS starting in January 2020. A biblical scholar, theologian, and historian of...

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...

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, a Stanford University scholar of social and cultural anthropology and of Africana and Latino/a studies, has been appointed Assistant Professor of African American Religions, effective July 1, 2009. "We are delighted to welcome...

Celene Ibrahim, MDiv ’11, is one of a growing number of HDS alumni who pursue religious leadership in a tradition other than Christianity—and in a setting other than a house of worship. As Tufts University’s Muslim chaplain, Ibrahim works with students to...

Jocelyne Cesari is a Visiting Professor of Religion and Politics at HDS. She is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, Professor of Religion and Politics at University of Birmingham (England)...

The Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray felt called to Arizona at a time when the state was ground zero for the controversy on immigration that today dominates the headlines. It didn’t take long for the issue to become personal. The Unitarian Universalist...