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On Thursday, June 1, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. In December 2015, nearly every country in the world agreed to the first global pact aimed at reducing emissions of planet-warming...

What would it look like if we didn’t put human beings at the center of creation? That’s the question that Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies Janet Gyatso explores with her students in “Knowing Animals” and “Forms of Life,” two HDS courses that...

Michael Marder discusses the paradox of “excessive heat” that, on the one hand, signals the ardency of faith and the love of God and, on the other, the effect of sin configured as ariditas (dryness), undoing viriditas (the greening green, a self...

As students face new financial pressures, HDS marshals new resources to meet the challenge. Space is sacred to Jarred Batchelor Hamilton. At HDS, the Master of Divinity candidate studies places that enable people to connect with one another and with the...

"Healing this uncivil war, especially within our own families, is not about changing our minds or even our hearts but first creating a space where we can meet unarmed. Here, an opening can occur. We are not abandoning our principles, but expanding our...

How do our views of land and landscape influence our religious imagination, and vice versa? On September 13, the Center for the Study of World Religions hosted its opening event of the 2017–18 academic year, "Barren Landscapes and Open Spaces." The...

His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, spoke to a capacity crowd at Harvard's Memorial Church on Thursday, March 26. The Karmapa's talk, "Caring for Life on Earth in the Twenty-first Century," was sponsored by HDS, the Harvard...

When I told colleagues at Oxfam that I needed time off to go to Harvard Divinity School, they responded with raised eyebrows. After all, I'm a senior executive in a large global organization that rarely, if ever, talks about religion and spirituality...

Terry Tempest Williams, the 2017–18 Writer-in-Residence at Harvard Divinity School, delivers the 2018 Ingersoll Lecture. She has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A...

This event is part of a larger collaboration between the Planetary Health Alliance and the Harvard Divinity School called “The Constellation Project,” led by Dr. Sam Myers and Terry Tempest Williams, which brings together science, faith, arts, and...

HDS welcomed scores of new graduate students to campus during Orientation, which kicked off the week of August 24. The 2015-16 incoming class includes approximately 120 students who represent about 20 religious traditions. They come from 32 states and...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council is pleased to announce the 2014 recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors, inaugurated last year and given annually to a small group of graduates whose lives and work exemplify the mission and values of...