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Kimberly Blockett was a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin when her thesis director, Nellie McKay, encouraged her to read a spiritual narrative from 1846 written by Zilpha Elaw, a free black woman who travelled up and down the East Coast of the...

C. Conrad Wright, Professor of American Church History Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, died peacefully at home in his sleep on February 17, 2011, at the age of 94. Wright was a prominent scholar of American Unitarianism, and he had a significant...

Sound is an integral aspect of many faith traditions. But what happens when women are kept from those sounds? What are the sonic dimensions of gender and religion? While working as a WSRP Research Associate this year, Rosalind I. J. Hackett is aiming to...

Earlier this summer, Pope Francis released his second Papal Encyclical, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home. The encyclical focuses on the relationship between humans and the earth, and it has been understood by many as a powerful commentary on...

Janet Gyatso, who taught in the religion department at Amherst College for the previous 11 years, was appointed the first Hershey Chair in Buddhist Studies in 2001. The new professorship at Harvard Divinity School focuses on "the thought, practice, and...

This fall semester, Professor Cheryl Giles joined a number of members of the HDS community in calling for a more conscious religious engagement with injustice. At an October panel discussion, “ Changing the World from the Inside Out: Multi-Faith...

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...

During the National Prayer Breakfast on February 2, President Donald Trump discussed removing the Johnson Amendment. The amendment restricts political speech by tax-exempt churches. HDS Associate Dean for Ministry Studies Dudley Rose discussed how Trump’s...

Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies and Interim Pusey Minister at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on January 27, 2020. ♦♦♦

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, offers a reflection for Holy Week. This week Christians across the world mark the holiest days of the Christian calendar: Holy (Maundy) Thursday, Good Friday...

David N. Hempton, HDS Dean, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on September 4, 2019. ♦♦♦ From...