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As activism on Harvard’s campus proliferates during the Trump presidency, HDS Professor Ahmed Ragab and Soha Bayoumi represent models of a new politically engaged professor.

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, continues exploring "The Study Quran," this time on the theme of Mary, the Mother of Jesus.

Professor Kevin Madigan writes about Francis' recent comments on Israel and Zionism in an op-ed piece.

Professor Ali Asani, director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard, discusses the worldwide erosion of pluralism when it comes to respecting beliefs.

The Nation magazine examines how Professor Harvey Cox has played a profound role in shaping liberal Christianity in America.

July 15, 2013 marked the 175th anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous "Divinity School Address," delivered to the HDS graduating class of 1838. The speech outraged many of Emerson's contemporaries but is today seen by many as a landmark in American...

Former FBI director James Comey's story illustrates Reinhold Niebuhr’s conviction that historical events tend to refute our illusions, writes K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer on American Religious History.

Professor Davíd Carrasco explains the spiritual meaning of items recently found in Mexico City, once home to the Aztec empire's holiest shrines, and believed buried there 500 yearrs ago.

Dudley Rose, associate dean for ministry studies, discusses anger in the Bible and why claiming "righteous anger" can be dangerous.

Professor Francis X. Clooney writes about his most recent trip to India where he delivered lectures and attended a conference on Ramanuja, the great theologian of the Shrivaishnava Hindu community.

Even for the devout, questions about the earliest history of Christianity can seem lost behind a shroud of history and official church teachings. Professor Karen King traces the power of stories told and untold in the growth of the early church.

HDS professor Kimberley Patton says the modern West tends to dismiss significance of dreams, perhaps missing a lesson from the ancients.