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When the Moment Passes

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This March, during spring break, 24 members of the HDS community traveled to Mississippi as part of the ongoing effort to rebuild a gulf coast region ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. The group—made up of students, faculty, and staff—spent a week living and...

An Atheist’s Prayer

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MDiv candidate and humanist chaplain Sally Fritsche speaks about her experience praying with hospital patients. The homily below was delivered at Follen Community Church on July 9, 2017. ♦♦♦ I never intended to be an atheist. I never decided. Growing up...

Examining Stories about Religion in America

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Asked how HDS professors Catherine Brekus and David Holland came to co-teach "Narratives of American Religion: The Canon and Its Revisions," Brekus said the decision to collaborate was made quickly. "David said, 'That sounds like a fun course,' and I said...

Student Profile: Marlon Millner

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After returning from a recent two-week trip to Cameroon, where he helped staff an ecumenical media team from the United States that was covering the Eighth General Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), second-year MDiv student Marlon...

How to be Bewildered at Harvard

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At morning exercises in Harvard Yard on May 25, graduating MTS student Walter Smelt III spoke on behalf of Harvard graduate students on recognizing the limits of knowledge and engaging with the wider world. ♦♦♦ To get into Harvard’s Widener Library, you...

For Intellectual Leadership, Professional Service, and Ministry

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HDS students develop a deep and intellectually rigorous understanding of the world’s religious traditions and the ways in which they shape the lives of people everywhere. They learn to bridge divides of faith, culture, gender, and more by participating...

Where God Is Moving

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Pope Francis, who has inspired both affection and controversy with recent remarks on homosexuality and atheism, made headlines again this week. In an interview with the editor of the leading Jesuit journal in Rome, the Pope criticized the Catholic Church...

The Spirit of Social Justice

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Jared Oubre, MTS candidate, spent much of his summer in 2013 with children who live on the streets of Managua, Nicaragua. The recipient of a Dana McLean Greeley International Internship from HDS's Center for the Study of World Religions, Oubre says he...

Weaving Interfaith Community at Harvard

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Monday, August 31, was an auspicious day at Harvard Divinity School. It was not only our Convocation, the formal opening of the new academic year, but also, at the start of 2015-16, a step closer to the actual bicentennial of the School. It was also an...

Bishop on a Pickup Truck

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In July 2000, when the Right Rev. Vashti McKenzie was elected the first female bishop in the 213-year history of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, her reaction made national headlines. "The stained-glass ceiling has been pierced and broken,"...

Audio: Deepening the Theological Roots of Our Work

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At a recent Noon Service, MDiv degree candidate Shelley Brown delivered a sermon on being theologically rooted in her work as an MIT scientist and a Harvard preacher. Listen to or read it below. 'But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all...