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Trump, the Johnson Amendment, and Faith Leaders

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During the National Prayer Breakfast on February 2, President Donald Trump discussed removing the Johnson Amendment. The amendment restricts political speech by tax-exempt churches. HDS Associate Dean for Ministry Studies Dudley Rose discussed how Trump’s...

Faith in Diplomacy

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Shaun Casey, MDiv '83, ThD '98, sat with a local imam in a café in Sub-Saharan Africa. A careless word or gesture could cause offense and derail the important cross-cultural meeting. The conversation stalled, the coffee cooled, and Casey's curiosity got...

Faith in Leadership

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It’s hard not to be astonished by the sheer breadth of Jim Hackett’s achievements. He attended the United States Air Force Academy, where he flew jets and was qualified as a glider pilot. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School. He worked as a field...

Faith in Diplomacy

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While at HDS, Casey found the resources to think deeply about lived religion and civil society Shaun Casey, MDiv '83, ThD '98, sat with a local imam in a café in Sub-Saharan Africa. A careless word or gesture could cause offense and derail the important...

Faith and Family

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In the spring of 2013, Cary Dabney found an envelope from Harvard Divinity School in his mailbox. The first member of his family to attend college, Dabney prepared himself for disappointment. He turned to his son—one of his six children—and joked that he...

Credit to His Faith

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For Christopher Hampson, issues around debt forgiveness involve both moral and legal dimensions, and pursuing a joint degree at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and Harvard Law School (HLS) enables him to think through the many dimensions of creditor-debtor...

Faith and Leadership

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As dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), Nitin Nohria leads an organization dedicated to educating leaders who make a difference in the world. As a scholar who’s spent over 30 years on the HBS faculty, he studies human motivation, corporate...

Faith in Social Justice

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Saying that "inequality is the root of social evil," Pope Francis has made economic justice a focus of his papacy. With young Americans turning away from organized faith communities, though, can religion really play a part in progressive social movements...

Talking About Faith in Public

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What keeps believers from talking about faith in public? HDS Senior Lecturer Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project, offers insight.

The U.S. and Faith-Based Social Initiatives

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As debate flurries around President George W. Bush's establishment of a federal office of faith-based and community action, Who Will Provide? The Changing Role of Religion in American Social Welfare , a recently published collection of essays that derives...

Video: Paul and the Faithfulness of God

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Professor N.T. Wright spoke about his book Paul and the Faithfulness of God at Harvard Divinity School on November 15, 2013. Wright is the Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews' School of Divinity. Full Video...

‘Faithful’ Looks Beyond Edges of Religious Traditions

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In an era of rapid change in religious identity and practice, institutional leaders across America ask “to what are we faithful?” As affiliation declines and new communities emerge, we are torn between loyalty to what has been and a desire to be part of...