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Francis X. Clooney, S.J., has been appointed the next director of the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School, beginning July 1, 2010. He will succeed Donald K. Swearer, who is retiring at the end of June after six years...

2020 Gomes Honoree Karen Meeker Ministers to Warriors' "Moral Injuries" An explosion killed the sons of a local family, but the mother made it to Bagram Air Base, the largest U.S. military facility in Afghanistan. There she gave birth to a baby girl. The...

Stephanie Paulsell is the Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies. On July 30, she delivered the sermon during Sunday Services at Memorial Church. Below are her remarks. ♦♦♦ One of the books we read in my summer school...

HDS Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions Michael D. Jackson is an anthropologist with extensive fieldwork experience in West Africa and Aboriginal Australia. He is the author of 40 works of anthropology, poetry, fiction, and memoir, and his...

The Center for the Study of Values in Public Life has named four visiting fellows for the 2000-2001 academic year; they are Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Mary Hunt, Bill McKibben, and Julie Nelson. The Women’s Studies in Religion Program has named five such...

With every human society growing more religiously and culturally pluralistic, the study of world religions has never been more crucial to stability, progress, and peace. This was the theme of presentations given at the annual Leadership Day celebration at...

Kayla J. Smith, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks during Noon Service in Andover Chapel on April 3, 2019. ♦♦♦ April 4, 2019, marked the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in my hometown, Memphis, Tennessee...

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...

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, offers a reflection for Holy Week. This week Christians across the world mark the holiest days of the Christian calendar: Holy (Maundy) Thursday, Good Friday...

I am the third oldest of 10 children, born into and raised in a supportive Roman Catholic family. While my mother is Catholic, my father is Jewish, and I grew up culturally celebrating my father's Jewish heritage alongside my mother's Catholic tradition...

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

In August, Cornel West stood arm-in-arm with clergy members in Charlottesville, Virginia, singing “This Little Light of Mine” while white supremacist groups spat at them and shouted racial epithets. Just weeks later, the HDS Professor of the Practice of...