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Few changes have been more dramatic in the long history of Harvard Divinity School than the inclusion of women—both as scholars and the subject of scholarship. In that context, 1973 was a milestone. That year, HDS established its Women’s Studies in...

Thomas (Tal) A. Lewis has been Assistant Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School since 2003. His book Freedom and Tradition in Hegel: Reconsidering Anthropology, Ethics, and Religion was published in 2005 by University of Notre Dame...

I write at perhaps the most challenging moment of our lifetimes, as our society reels from global pandemic, economic collapse, and social unrest. We have all been affected. Many in the HDS community are on the front lines as activists, caregivers, and...

Katherine Collins, MTS ’11, is on the move again. In 2008, Collins left her position as the head of equity research at Fidelity Investments, where she oversaw assets of over $20 billion, to come to HDS and develop the ethical foundation she saw as...

Enoch Joseph Aboi had been serving as a pastor for his church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria when in 2015 he started teaching full time at Evangelical Christian Winning All (ECWA) Theological Seminary. But Aboi soon realized that he was ready for more...

Just three weeks into his studies at Harvard Divinity School, Isaac Martinez stood behind a wooden pulpit in Andover Chapel to preach about the parable of Lazarus and the rich man. Martinez, an MDiv candidate, was quick to acknowledge that the familiar...

Robert Franklin is worried about America. He sees distance, mistrust, and division in society eroding the foundations of U.S. democracy. A student of political science, Franklin understands that changing demographics, geographic isolation, identity...

Writing is freedom for Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, MTS ’01: freedom from the life-threatening allergies and respiratory problems that have plagued her since she was a child; freedom from the prejudice and misunderstanding she experienced growing up...

On August 2, the Vatican announced a change in the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty. The new teaching rejects the notion that capital punishment is legitimate in some cases, declaring that “‘the death penalty is...

The following reflection was written by Father Pishoy Salama, priest in the Coptic Orthodox Church and resident fellow at Harvard Divinity School during the 2019 fall semester. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it...

In a year unlike any other, HDS celebrates the diversity of alumni impact in the public sphere with the 2021 Gomes Honors. Each year, the HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) recognizes the Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honors, celebrating...

Two years after she first thought of the idea of introducing a special program—one that would bring racial and ethnic minority undergraduate students to Harvard Divinity School to expose them to ministerial and theological graduate education—Maritza...