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Terry Tempest Williams, HDS’s writer-in-residence, and film producer Geralyn White Dreyfous have curated a special film series that is open to the Harvard community as well as the general public, and includes the chance for audience members to engage in...

The destruction of one of the world’s great civilizations. The slaughter of thousands of indigenous people—and the enslavement of thousands more. These atrocities were the consequence of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1519. Yet Davíd Carrasco...

A panel of HDS faculty launches the bicentennial of HDS by discussing the outcome of the 200-year history of the School: a multireligious divinity school. Audio

Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies Stephanie Paulsell was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Commencement Service on May 24, 2017. Below are her remarks: Professor Walton, Dean Hempton, dear colleagues...

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton discussed the role of HDS at Harvard, as well as the role of religion and ethics at other Harvard Schools with Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean James Ryan, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, and...

Professor Michael D. Jackson arrived at Harvard Divinity School in 2005 after many years of ethnographic and teaching experience in Sierra Leone, Australia, Denmark, and New Zealand—just to name a few. A prolific scholar, Jackson has published more than...

Some of us might feel guilty about grieving, especially if we haven’t actually lost someone to COVID-19. But as we are all grieving the lost rhythms of our daily lives as well as our feelings of familiarity and safety, gratitude can help us build...

You're walking in the country and you fall into quicksand. You feel yourself being sucked under and panic. You can't walk through it. You can't swim through it. The more you move, the deeper you sink. Exhausted, you finally lay back in despair. "I’m going...

Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity split. Despite decades of attempts there has yet to be reconciliation. But, on Friday, Pope Francis will visit with the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church in a historic meeting...

Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies and Interim Pusey Minister at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks during Sunday Services at Memorial Church on March 8, 2020. ♦♦♦

Ahead of his book talk on April 20, CSWR director and HDS professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., opens up about the importance of comparing religious traditions, the difficulties of academic writing, and if loving God is harder today than it was centuries...

Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 8, 2018.