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"If we are to learn well in the interreligious world in which we live, we must do more than appreciate and cherish our own tradition," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney.

Smaller organizations with older congregations that struggled to adapt during the pandemic are in the greatest danger of a downward spiral from which they can’t recover, said the Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, Swartz Resident Practitioner in Ministry...

“Putting the Bible or placing American history within the Bible, or suggesting the U.S. is a source of revelation, is seen by many evangelicals as a kind of heresy,” said HDS Professor Catherine Brekus.

HDS Professor Mark Jordan discusses on NPR's All Things Considered how a literalist reading takes the lessons of the Bible out of context.

On the latest episode of the OnScript podcast, Professor Jon Levenson talks about his book, Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel, which explores the origins of the Jewish doctrine of the resurrection of the dead.

Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School discusses the history of women and religion and how religion has defined gender roles.

The prayers offered during President Joe Biden's inauguration ultimately “reflected Biden’s desire to overcome religious as well as political divisions and to unite people in service of the common good,” said HDS Professor Catherine Brekus.

Harvard Professor Michael Sandel, renowned political philosopher and author of The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?, was interviewed by HDS Professor and Interim Pusey Minister at Memorial Church Stephanie Paulsell, during the First...

Dean David N. Hempton delivered the 2020 McCosh Lecture, organized by Queen's University Belfast. His lecture was titled "Networks, Nodes and Nuclei: Towards a New Theory of Religious Change."

Poet, teacher, librarian, and Harvard Scholar at Risk Mosab Abu Toha is doing important work for the people of Gaza and beyond. He is one of Harvard Divinity School's Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellows this year.

"In the days of the pandemic, even if we remain very careful about distancing ourselves, let us at least in our hearts show up, cease to be distant, dwell among those who suffer, our tears mingling with theirs, at every tomb," writes Professor Francis X...

"The larger the problems are around us, the deeper we must go if we are to be spiritually alive, able to manifest God’s healing power in a world that seems anything but holy," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.