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This summer, thanks to several generous gifts in support of Dean David N. Hempton’s campaign initiatives, HDS continued its ongoing effort to provide students with financial support so that they can serve communities locally and abroad through...

Dan McKanan joined the HDS faculty in July 2008 as the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity. On Thursday, May 7, he will deliver the lecture to inaugurate the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist...

Violence is not inevitable in stressed and oppressed communities and the building of peace in those communities requires the building of bridges between unlikely collaborators. That's the lesson learned in Boston over three decades of trying to change the...

Christopher Hale learned quickly that mixing politics and religion can be gritty business. In 2008, he was hired by Barack Obama's campaign to help reach out to Catholic communities. On his second day on the campaign, he was called to the archbishop's...

Two hundred years. Even in an institution as venerable as Harvard University, that's a long time. Harvard Divinity School, the nation's first nonsectarian theological school, will celebrate its bicentennial during the 2016–17 academic year with events and...

This past year, HDS began a major renewal project on our main campus building, welcomed new Hindu monastics in residence, became inspired—yet again—by the words and work of our faculty and students, and experienced many momentous moments. With 2019 coming...

On September 15, Donald K. Swearer delivered the 2008-09 Convocation Address: "An Ecology of Human Flourishing." Paul D. Hanson, Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity, delivered the Invocation; Dean William A. Graham provided welcoming remarks...

Update: This event has been postponed due to inclement weather in New York City, which prevented Professor Cone from being able to travel. Tragedies of the past year, including the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York...

HDS associate director for development communications Paul Massari writes about the love and support he received from the HDS community after the tragic death of his mother.

When the archaeology PhD student Ann Seiferle-Valencia tells friends and family about the sixteenth-century codex Mapa de Cuauhtinchan ("Place of the Eagle"), which she is helping to decipher along with an international team of scholars assembled by...

Chris Berlin is a counselor to Buddhist students and Instructor in Ministry and Pastoral Counseling at HDS. He is part of a musical group consisting of several HDS alumni and students called Satigata. The group, formed at HDS, recently released an album...

In early May, an enthusiastic HDS staff member walked into offices in Divinity Hall to let people know about a community altar that was being constructed on the building's third floor. Those of us who could spare a moment were invited for an informal...