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When former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead looks around the world, he’s troubled by what he sees: unfortunate new aggressive actions by Russia; war in Iraq; ongoing conflict between Arabs and Israelis; tension between India and Pakistan...

For Marianne Williamson, politics is not only personal, it is spiritual. The best-selling author of such self-help books as A Return to Love and The Healing of America not only believes in this connection, she stresses that ignoring—or, worse, severing—it...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Professor Anne Monius about her fall 2017 class “Indian Religions Through Their Narrative Literatures”—an...

Wesley J. Wildman, Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at Boston University, presented the second and final comparative theology lecture of the 2013–14 academic year at the Center for Study of World Religions. Traditional natural theology...

At a Noon Service hosted in the spring by the HDS Garden Group, the Rev. Dr. María Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa, MDiv ’07, ThD ’16, shared a single ear of multicolored corn with those present. Vlassidis Burgoa, who was studying indigenous traditions and...

Preston Williams has often been first: the first tenured African American member of the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) faculty; the first African American president of the Society of Christian Ethics; the founding director of Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois...

HDS graduates serve in a wide variety of vocations and are influencing lives in countries across the globe. Learn more about their latest activities and discover their recent books. Recent Alumni Books Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council has announced the first cohort of honorees for the inaugural Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors, which celebrates the outstanding contributions that HDS alumni make to their fields, and to society, across the broad...

On September 25, 2013, the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at HDS, in partnership with Harvard Medical School, presented the talk 'Is Health Care a Spiritual Discipline?' by Dr. Daniel Sulmasy. Sulmasy is the Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine...

HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. Words of...

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...

Brooks teaches students to bring sacred and secular together in service of social justice When Cornell William Brooks saw the video of George Floyd, the African American man killed last May by a Minneapolis police officer, it immediately brought to mind...