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On April 3, the alumni recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors spoke at the final Divinity Dialogues event of the 2013-14 academic year. The panelists were: Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS '84; Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93...

Acclaimed expert on biblical, gnostic, and apocryphal writings, Willis Barnstone explores the question, were early Christians Pharisee Jews like Saint Paul? Barnstone is a poet and translator of ancient and modern texts. A four-time recipient of the Book...

The Unruly Mystic, by Michael Conti, is an inspirational documentary of how the filmmaker reaffirmed his life's work when he fell in love with a 12th century saint. During a panel discussion following the screening, George P. Ferzoco, Beverly Mayne...

On August 31, legendary professor Harvey Cox delivered the 2015 Convocation address. Titled "The Babylonian Captivity of Theology," Cox encouraged his fellow faculty members and Harvard Divinity School graduate students to be troublemakers. If theology is...

Rosalind I.J. Hackett, Trelawney Grenfell-Muir, Melissa W. Bartholomew, and Anila Daulatzai discuss the role of religious and spiritual resources in women's multifaceted contributions to sustainable peace and the challenges and promise of women's...

How can Buddhist thought and practice inform contemporary discussions and activity in America around issues of race and racism? In a session moderated by Darren Becker at the HBC Conference on Buddhism and Race in America, panelists Donna Bivens, Anushka...

The 2015-16 academic year provided many memorable moments at HDS. As we head toward Commencement, we take a look back at some of the events that made this academic year so meaningful and special. [[{"fid":642811,"view_mode":"default","type":"media"...

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

On March 29, Ahmed Ragab delivered the lecture inaugurating his appointment as the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at HDS. Ragab joined the Divinity School in July 2011. He was a visiting lecturer at HDS for the 2009 fall...

In the fall 1911, members of both Andover Theological Seminary and Harvard Divinity School gathered in the chapel of the newly built Andover Hall to dedicate the building. One hundred years later, the building is, in many ways, the centerpiece of life at...

The annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality was presented on December 6 by Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, Princeton University, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Presidential Medal of...

The Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, MDiv '97, was the first speaker in a series of Divinity Dialogues, held October 11 in Divinity Chapel. White-Hammond is the co-pastor of Bethel AME Church, Boston, executive director of My Sister's Keeper, and a retired...