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The prosperity gospel has gained an important foothold in U.S. politics. Professor Jonathan Walton, Visiting Professor E.J. Dionne, and author Sally Quinn discuss the subject as part of a panel at Harvard Kennedy School.

Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, speaks out at Morning Prayers and calls for stricter gun regulations in the wake of the mass shootings in Las Vegas, Orlando, Charleston, Newtown and...

On May 7, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West spoke at the funeral service of the Rev. James H. Cone. Cone was a central figure in the development of black liberation theology in the 1960s and ’70s who argued for racial justice and...

"If we are Christians in more than name only...we need to become familiar with the voice of God calling us individually by name, to upset things, shaking society and politics and the religious establishment too."—HDS Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

"The world is a hard and sometimes bitter place, and the crisis in the Church only makes things worse. But this means that there is a still greater need, then, to 'go to church,'" writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, in the first part of a two-part blog...

"We cannot have a Church whose policy it is to reward professional, clerical sinners with positions of leadership in the Church, while telling other Catholics to repent and reform their lives," writes Professor Francis Clooney, S.J.

Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program at HDS, discusses the Spiritualism movement in America during the nineteenth century, and how it helped bring women—and reformist ideas—into the public sphere.

On March 21, HDS Professor Charles Adams spoke at Noon Service, hosted by HDS Baptists. HDS Noon Service events present a weekly opportunity for the HDS community to pray or meditate with each other across many respective traditions.

John B. Carman, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Religion Emeritus at HDS, discusses Christians in South Indian Villages, 1959–2009: Decline and Revival in Telangana, a book he co-authored.

During a recent HDS forum on violence, freedom of expression, and justice, panelists raised questions about free speech and its limitations.

A message from David N. Hempton, Dean of Harvard Divinity School I write with great pleasure to announce that Melissa Wood Bartholomew, MDiv ’15, will join HDS as the School’s new Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) on July 6, 2020...

Students at a suburban Chicago high school this fall started a pilot program that introduces them to the cultural studies method of teaching religion. The Religious Literacy Project at HDS is promoting the pilot, which featured a visit from RLP director...