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Robert Franklin is worried about America. He sees distance, mistrust, and division in society eroding the foundations of U.S. democracy. A student of political science, Franklin understands that changing demographics, geographic isolation, identity...

This feature was written by Tajay Bongsa, Odalis Garcia, Nicole Morris, Nicholas J. Scrimenti, Kayla J. Smith, and Hope Williams of the Religions and the Practice of Peace team. It started with a song, "Celebrate Good Times." Everyone got up on their feet...

Professor Werner de Saeger, MTS ’11, is a theologian and legal scholar and teaches at the University of Cambridge and PXL University of Applied Sciences in Belgium. ♦♦♦ As I walked out of the Sorbonne library on Monday evening, April 15, just before 7 pm...

In her recently published book The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils: Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean (Columbia University Press), Kimberley C. Patton, who is Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion at HDS, examines...

It happened by chance. Liz Steinhauser, MDiv '96, was going for an afternoon walk in Boston's South End nearly 10 years ago when she saw Tim Crellin, also MDiv '96, standing on the sidewalk outside St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, where Crellin was (and...

HDS celebrated the 2021 Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Honors Friend of the School on May 11. Our 2021 Friend of the School is Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita of Harvard University the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, and longtime partner and...

The following personal reflection was written by MDiv candidate Alexa Klein-Mayer. It was still dark when we gathered, 10 hours earlier than our normal class time on a chilly November morning. It may have seemed unusual to be boarding a bus, blurry-eyed...

Michelle Sanchez has been named Assistant Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2014. Sanchez is currently a doctoral candidate in the study of religion in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. She graduates...

As the director of the First Church Shelter in Cambridge, Jim Stewart, MDiv '83, is a jack-of-all-trades. His work one particular day involved cubing and marinating beef, cutting and cooking potatoes, ordering supplies, and—as he often does—trying to help...

Krister Stendahl, who played a crucial role in shaping the life and work of Harvard Divinity School, just as he was also a pioneer in the broader realm of ecumenical relations, died on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at the age of 86. He had been in failing...

When I told colleagues at Oxfam that I needed time off to go to Harvard Divinity School, they responded with raised eyebrows. After all, I'm a senior executive in a large global organization that rarely, if ever, talks about religion and spirituality...

On December 5, 2013, 12 Harvard students sat in a conference room in a Tucson, Arizona, courthouse with the city's public defender. "So," the public defender said, "you just came from watching 70 brown people shackled and tried for being economic refugees...