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The 2015-16 academic year provided many memorable moments at HDS. As we head toward Commencement, we take a look back at some of the events that made this academic year so meaningful and special. [[{"fid":642811,"view_mode":"default","type":"media"...

Introducing Divinity Dialogues—a special edition podcast series from Harvard Divinity School that puts conversations on faith, purpose, and bearing witness at the center of today’s most pressing issues. Today, we hear from HDS alum Joshua Eaton, MDiv ’10...

Since the release of Steven Spielberg’s latest film, The Post, there’s been a spike in interest about the Pentagon Papers, a classified study of the U.S. government’s decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War. The Papers were first released by Daniel...

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...

Walking around with the Rev. Jeffrey L. Brown one day in early October, it was easy to understand why he had been dubbed "Mr. Mayor" at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod, where he was overseeing care for more than 200 people evacuated from the...

Bill Rainer planned to enter Harvard Divinity School in the fall of 1999 as a full-time student. At age 53, the successful finance industry executive had discovered a passion for the study of religion and looked forward to immersing himself in the...

Halloween has become synonymous with costumes and candy, but what lies beyond the ghoulish face paint and Tootsie Roll wrappers? Kimberley Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion at Harvard Divinity School, has long studied...

A panel of HDS faculty launches the bicentennial of HDS by discussing the outcome of the 200-year history of the School: a multireligious divinity school. Audio

As students face new financial pressures, HDS marshals new resources to meet the challenge. Space is sacred to Jarred Batchelor Hamilton. At HDS, the Master of Divinity candidate studies places that enable people to connect with one another and with the...

In February of 1926, Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard-education historian, had a very specific goal in mind when he established what was then called Negro History Week. He hoped, as time went along, that Black history would be recognized as so entrenched in...

Holly Lebowitz Rossi, MTS '99, is a freelance writer and editor who has covered religion, health, yoga, and parenting for more for two decades. Below, HDS student Emily Farnsworth speaks with Rossi about her new book, The Yoga Effect: A Proven Program for...