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Writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams will join HDS as a writer-in-residence for the 2017-18 academic year. During her year at HDS, Williams will spend time contemplating and writing about the spiritual implications of climate change and will lead a...

In 2002, two dozen Colombian army officers and former guerrilla fighters gathered at a hotel outside of Bogota. These leaders—representing the opposing sides of a conflict that has lasted 53 years and killed over 220,000 Colombians—arrived on the same...

As U.S. deputy secretary of state from 1985 to 1989, the investor, diplomat, and philanthropist John Whitehead saw that religion was the thread that connected many of the diplomatic challenges he faced around the world. He believed deeply in the...

Harvard University was named best in the world for the study of divinity, theology, and religion by the influential QS World University Rankings for 2019. It was the third year in a row that the School’s programs earned the distinction. (Find out about...

It's considered a serious threat to the future and it's what HDS Dean David N. Hempton called one of the topics of our lifetime. Climate change and its impact on the world are why HDS holds among its values a commitment to sustainability and being a good...

The 2015 recipients of Harvard Divinity School's Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors include a diplomat, a chaplain, an activist, an advisor, and a scholar. While these individuals—and their professions—may seem disparate, Dean David N. Hempton says...

Melissa Bartholomew, MDiv '15, and Rachel Foran, MTS '15, are the co-chairs of the HDS Racial Justice & Healing Initiative, a group of HDS students committed to cross-disciplinary dialogue, scholarship, and training in order to address personal and...

As a soldier in WWII, Ben Ferencz, JD '43, participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, sites of some of the worst atrocities in human history. When the war was over, as chief prosecutor of one of the Nuremberg trials, he brought to justice...

In 2012, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison took the stage at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and spoke to a rapt audience about goodness, altruism, and the literary imagination. On that very same stage Thursday afternoon, Harvard Divinity School (HDS)...

What led rival youth militia leaders to come together as peacebuilding partners? How do you negotiate peace when religious identities are at stake? What are Muslim experiences of conflict and peace and how do they mirror those of other communities? These...

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...

Few changes have been more dramatic in the long history of Harvard Divinity School than the inclusion of women—both as scholars and the subject of scholarship. In that context, 1973 was a milestone. That year, HDS established its Women’s Studies in...