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On Wednesday, February 3, President Barack Obama visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore, which was his first visit to a mosque in the U.S. while serving as president. During his visit, Obama said that "An attack on one faith is an attack on all our...

On September 25, 2013, the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at HDS, in partnership with Harvard Medical School, presented the talk 'Is Health Care a Spiritual Discipline?' by Dr. Daniel Sulmasy. Sulmasy is the Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine...

Religious leaders "have little support and little training in dealing with issues related to sexual and gender-based violence" (SGBV), concludes the new "Interrogating the Silence" report from the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity...

This timely lecture was delivered on October 2, 2012, by Randall Balmer, chair of the Religion Department and Mandel Family Professor of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College. John F. Kennedy's address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on...

HDS Professor Catherine Brekus discusses how people have turned to religion in times of crisis.

A presentation on April 25 by Judith Casselberry, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School.

For Mary Setterholm, MDiv '13, her lived experience with sexual and gender-based violence motivates and informs her ministry. Setterholm is currently a pastoral activist with Serenity Sisters, and she was one of four faith leaders who participated in a...

Enoch Joseph Aboi had been serving as a pastor for his church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria when in 2015 he started teaching full time at Evangelical Christian Winning All (ECWA) Theological Seminary. But Aboi soon realized that he was ready for more...

Race and religion are among the best predictors of how Americans choose a president. Race and religion are also bases for political compromises that call into question our moral credibility on issues ranging from voting rights to police brutality. Cornell...

At a Noon Service hosted in the spring by the HDS Garden Group, the Rev. Dr. María Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa, MDiv ’07, ThD ’16, shared a single ear of multicolored corn with those present. Vlassidis Burgoa, who was studying indigenous traditions and...

Breaking Up with God: I Didn't Lose My Faith, I Left It

Ministry Innovation Fellows Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston discuss their work to understand where millennial Americans go to find community and how leaders can expand the spiritual offerings of traditional churches.