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Brooke Davis received a master of theological studies degree from HDS and a master of public policy degree from Harvard Kennedy School on May 29. In a short Q&A, she discusses the value of her HDS education and the ways in which her experiences at Harvard...

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...

Jennifer Hollis, MDiv '03, never intended to earn herself the peculiar title "Midwife of Death." After reading an article about music-thanatology before her senior year at Connecticut College, however, the prospect of learning how to prescriptively play...

Charles Stang, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions and Professor of Early Christian Thought, delivered the first Price Lecture of 2019 at Trinity Church Boston on March 10, 2019. ♦♦♦ First of all, I’d like to thank Bill, Patrick, and...

The tradition of HDS graduates speaking and acting publicly—and often prophetically—extends back to the School’s earliest years. In his address to the graduating class of 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, HDS ’26, railed against a church “which seems to totter...

The following sermon was delivered by Derek van Bever, MBA '88, MDiv '11, at the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill. ♦♦♦ Mark 10:17-31 17 As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must...

In his new book, I Don't Believe in Atheists (Free Press), Chris Hedges, MDiv '83, critiques the "new atheists" and argues that their belief system is as polarizing as that of the religious right. Jonathan Beasley recently spoke with Hedges about his time...

Harvard President Drew Faust spoke about the HDS's history and mission during the School's bicentennial celebration on April 28, 2017. Listen

Since the release of Steven Spielberg’s latest film, The Post, there’s been a spike in interest about the Pentagon Papers, a classified study of the U.S. government’s decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War. The Papers were first released by Daniel...

In 1815, the Reverend William Ellery Channing laid out a vision for the graduates of the institution that would become Harvard Divinity School. In a fundraising circular written over the signature of Harvard President John T. Kirkland, Channing wrote that...

Rick Santos, MTS '92, has spent years working for nonprofit organizations that provide relief, medical aid, and economic development for people all over the world, but while attending a work-related meeting in Haiti on January 12, he found himself on the...

The Reverend James Lawson admits that it sometimes troubles him when people view him as a living artifact of the civil rights movement, especially because he has been arrested for civil disobedience more times in the last 10 years than he ever was during...