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HDS student Chris Lisee writes on how faith communities in Boston are responding to the violence that occurred at the Boston Marathon.

New and old spots across Harvard's campus encourage pause and reflection for religious and mindful communities alike.

Professor Freyne passed away on August 5. An expert in Galilean studies, he was widely admired by the Harvard community.

MTS candidate Usra Ghazi speaks on Public Radio International about issues that divide some women in the Muslim community.

An afternoon program, "Visionaries and Pragmatists Ancient and Contemporary," took place in Andover Hall on November 2 to celebrate the retirement of Paul Hanson, Florence Corliss Lamont Research Professor of Divinity. The first seminar on apocalyptic...

Social ethicist and African American religious studies scholar Jonathan Walton has been named Assistant Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2010. Walton is currently an assistant professor of religious...

Working for durable peace is more or less Susan Hayward’s job description. Where fellow HDS alum Steve Simon keeps his eye on the potential for religiously inspired violence, Hayward, MDiv ’07, director of religion and peacebuilding at the United States...

Lynne Gerber never imagined that she would become an avid consumer of Focus on the Family Christian radio. "I grew up in New York in a very Jewish community," Gerber said. "We understood what Catholics were, but Protestants were a whole entire other thing...

The statistics are nearly too jarring to be true: globally, one-third of women report being physically or sexually abused by an intimate partner, according to the United States Department of Justice. Another one-third of all female homicide victims are...

2014 William James lecturer T.M. Luhrmann talks about her work and the ways that members of evangelical communities worship and pray.

On one day in May, the entire Harvard Divinity School (HDS) community comes together to celebrate shared achievements: graduation and the greening of Harvard’s Campus.

Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, discusses the recent tensions between the academic and faith communities.