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Gordon Kaufman, Leading Theologian, Dies

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Gordon Dester Kaufman, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, died on Friday, July 22, at age 86. A member of the Faculty of Divinity since 1963, Kaufman was a renowned liberal theologian whose research...

The Warrior’s Companion

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The Rev. Cynthia Kane, MDiv ’96, says that her ministry is a lot like any other. She is a companion and guide to people with diverse backgrounds and experiences and helps them address questions of morality, faith, spirituality, and ethics. In many ways...

New Ministries for Millennials

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Millennials hungry for deep connection are creating new spiritual communities even as they turn away from organized religion, the authors of two new studies said recently at Harvard Divinity School. As a result, secular groups are discovering the value of...

Hempton: Belonging at Harvard

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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...

The Wayfarer

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In 1871, Thomas Nast drew an editorial cartoon about Catholic immigration to the United States. Entitled "The American River Ganges," it depicts bishops as crocodiles emerging from the ocean on all fours, scales on their backs and mitres transformed into...

Peace, in Theory and Practice

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Earlier this month, I was one of six Harvard Divinity School students sitting in the United Nations’ Security Council chamber listening to delegates from countries around the world talk about how faith and religion were both causes and solutions to peace...

Chaplaincy Without Borders

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The NFL has chaplains. Most universities do, too. The military, U.S. Congress, and hospitals across the country have access to chaplaincy resources, but not social change leaders. Not typically anyway. But over the last several years, three Harvard...

A Summer Between Two Homelands

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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...

A Mentor Remembered

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Katie Ford and Sarah Sentilles studied under Gordon Kaufman a decade ago when they were enrolled in the MDiv program at HDS. Ford, MDiv '01, went on to become a poet and professor of English, and Sentilles, MDiv '01, earned a ThD from HDS in 2008 and...