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When I arrived at Harvard Divinity School in the fall and told people I was studying religion and literature, almost everyone said: “You need to take Amy Hollywood!” Hollywood joined the HDS faculty in 2005, after teaching at Rhodes, Dartmouth, and the...

This semester at Harvard Divinity School, Cheryl Giles is teaching “Spiritual Care and Counseling”—a title that could easily be applied to her entire professional life. Over the years, Giles has worked as a college chaplain, a clinical psychologist...

HDS Dean David N. Hempton is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe, North America, and beyond. On September 7, he spoke at the Morning Prayers service in The Memorial Church, Harvard...

Margaux Fitoussi’s world has changed before her eyes more than once. Born in France, she lived in Paris until she was 7, when her parents—she an American dancer and he a doctor of Tunisian origin—divorced. Next was a home on the edge of the ocean in Long...

Anaïs Garvanian is a first-year MTS student at HDS focusing on the history of Christianity. She works as a gallery attendant at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art. In the essay below, she writes about her interpretation...

It’s finally the time of year for sun, sand, hammocks, and reading lists. Members of the HDS community shared what they’ll be reading this summer—for work and for pleasure. Simran Jeet Singh, MTS ’08, postdoctoral fellow at New York University, columnist...

Bitter budget fights. Political battles over same-sex marriage. Religious radio-show and television hosts demonizing opponents. Heated debates on gun control in the face of massacres. Why are Americans so polarized on so many issues, and what can be done...

Something much more formidable than coal has come from Pennsylvania's dusky anthracite region. For former Proctor & Gamble and Exxon (later ExxonMobil) executive Edward B. Berninger, MBA '55, growing up in the hardscrabble communities of Scranton's...

Rachelle Sam, who graduated from Harvard Divinity School on May 27 with a master of divinity degree, came to HDS, like many of her classmates, with a wide range of interests. Through the flexibility of the master of divinity degree curriculum, including...

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton commemorated the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks today with a visit to New York City, where he challenged students at one of the nation's elite independent schools to "better understand both the...

Two staff members from the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, to attend the November 9-11, 2002, opening ceremonies of the Museum of World Religions, which has a timely mission of fostering...

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. ♦♦♦