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Most students anticipate their spring break being a time off from study and full of relaxation. But for a group of HDS students, this spring break is instead an opportunity to encounter in person what they've been studying all semester. Fifteen students...

Starting July 16, the U.S. Department of State will host its 3-day Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. The event “brings together leaders from around the world to discuss the challenges facing religious freedom, identify means to address religious...

On Thursday, October 19, and Friday, October 20, Harvard Divinity School will host a conference on Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration. Organized by Matthew Potts, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature and of Ministry Studies, and Michelle...

Alumni/Alumnae Council Chairperson Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv ’10, moderated a discussion with this year's Gomes Honorees about their time at HDS, their views on the importance of School, and their work in the world. The panel was part of HDS's...

Believing that a month should be dedicated to the celebration and teaching of gay and lesbian history, Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, gathered other educators and community leaders to discuss the issue in 1994. The group selected October...

In 2012, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison took the stage at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and spoke to a rapt audience about goodness, altruism, and the literary imagination. On that very same stage Thursday afternoon, Harvard Divinity School (HDS)...

David Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 14, 2018. ♦♦♦

Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 30, 2018. ♦♦♦

“The Examined Life,” a course taught by HDS professors David Lamberth and Cornel West, breaks conventions. In many classes across Harvard, discussions about the implications of theories on contemporary lived experience don’t take center stage. The main...

On August 2, the Vatican announced a change in the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty. The new teaching rejects the notion that capital punishment is legitimate in some cases, declaring that “‘the death penalty is...

On September 25, 2018, Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, presided over the Tuesday morning Ecumenical Eucharist in Andover Chapel. In her remarks, Paulsell discusses hearing something new in a...

On September 10, President Barack Obama outlined a strategy to combat the jihadist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) following the recent killings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. The strategy involves the...