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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...

It's one thing to apply, be accepted to, and attend Harvard. It's another to do that while writing a successful book and helping shift the public discourse around health care. That was the demanding path of Lauren A. Taylor, who arrived at Harvard...

The following words are the first portion of the Alumni/ae Day Address presented at Harvard Divinity School on June 7, 2006, by Margaret R. Miles, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and a...

The Harvard Divinity School Alumni/ae Association is pleased to announce that the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Preston N. Williams Black Alumni/ae Award. He will...

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including, most recently, Beyond Compare: St. Francis and Sri Vedanta Desika on...

The day that Abel Rodriguez won his first asylum case was the best of his career as an immigration attorney. He was overjoyed and his work seemed full of meaning after accompanying his client through a process that was long and stressful but ultimately...

Renowned scholars of American religious history R. Marie Griffith and Leigh Eric Schmidt have been appointed to the HDS faculty, effective July 1, 2009. Griffith will be the John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, and Schmidt will be the...

by Jonathan Beasley jbeasley@hds.harvard.edu 617.496.6004 His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto, will make his first visit to Harvard University on October 2–3, 2011. He will deliver the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi...

Whittney Barth graduated from HDS on May 26 with a master of divinity degree. Below, she describes how her life has been impacted by her experience at HDS, offers some advice for incoming students, and discusses her future plans. I was originally...

In her Harvard Divinity School Convocation address, HDS Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura S. Nasrallah recalled her efforts studying a Greek mosaic and her pondering the sometimes obscurity of her work. "I wondered: Was I a...

The Rev. Dudley C. Rose, associate dean for ministry studies at HDS, delivered the following talk to students at the first meeting of "Introduction to Ministry Studies," a course he co-teaches with Professor Stephanie Paulsell. In James Michener's novel...

During his six-day visit to the United States Pope Francis will speak at the White House, deliver speeches to Congress and at the United Nations, and celebrate a Mass at Madison Square Garden. But Harvard professors say that other items on the pope's...