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Janet Cooper Nelson got the call late one night. The Rev. Paul Santmire, ThD '66, chaplain of her Wellesley College congregation, left a message with her husband that he needed to meet right away. She was tired after a long day at work, but Santmire said...

After 22 years of teaching, writing and publishing, and serving in various academic and administrative roles from Colorado to Connecticut, Jane I. Smith returned to Harvard Divinity School on July 1 to serve as its new associate dean for faculty and...

Sidra Ali, MDiv ’19, offered these reflections at the Wednesday Noon Service hosted by the HDS Muslims on May 1, 2019, in preparation for Ramadan. ♦♦♦ As a failed linguistic anthropologist, and a weary amateur academic, there is a particular allure to...

Krister Stendahl, who played a crucial role in shaping the life and work of Harvard Divinity School, just as he was also a pioneer in the broader realm of ecumenical relations, died on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at the age of 86. He had been in failing...

In December 1815, President John T. Kirkland, appealed for support of the “best and noblest cause, which human benevolence is permitted to advance”: the education of ministers at Harvard University. His letter to the School’s alumni described society’s...

Ronald F. Thiemann, Bussey Professor of Theology and former dean of Harvard Divinity School, died on Thursday, November 29, 2012, at the age of 66. A noted scholar, theologian, teacher, and administrator, Thiemann was a leading voice in discussions about...

Curated by Terry Tempest Williams and Geralyn White Dreyfous, “The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination” is a special film series and salon open to all members of the Harvard community as well as the general public. The films, which...

The 2019 William James Lecture will be presented on May 1, 5:15 pm, by Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages, and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His talk, “ The Planet: An Emergent...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) is pleased to announce four new members, who will begin terms of service on July 1, 2013: Peter K. Anagnostos, MTS '86, of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv '10, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Shenila...

by Jahnabi Barooah Americans in new, charismatic evangelical churches need to work harder than Ghanaians in theologically similar settings to make God real. This is the provocative thesis that Tanya Marie Luhrmann put forward at Harvard Divinity School's...

Shaireen Rasheed has been a visiting scholar for the 2014–15 academic year at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, where she has worked on a manuscript that explores the ethical concept of sexuality, Islam, and the war...

The tradition of HDS graduates speaking and acting publicly—and often prophetically—extends back to the School’s earliest years. In his address to the graduating class of 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, HDS ’26, railed against a church “which seems to totter...