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Tom Stanton, HDS ’68, only attended Harvard Divinity School for one year, but the experience had a big influence on the rest of his life. You can see it in his career path. Inspired by his HDS field education experience at an inner-city church, as well as...

Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS ’84, is the first United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council. When she came to Harvard Divinity School in the early 1980s, she suspected that public policy work might be in...

In the spring of 2006, Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School was contacted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., with an expressed interest in obtaining copies of the library's records of the Unitarian...

Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, who will soon graduate from the Divinity School with a master of divinity degree, has many passions and pursuits. A recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, she will spend the coming year expanding...

Learn from your classmates, practice joy and gratitude, and venture out. That's some of the wisdom members of the HDS community have to share with the 136 incoming students who started their orientation this week. The students come from 30 states and from...

The HDS Office of Development and External Relations was pleased to host "Making Meaning in 2021 at the Crossroads of Business and Capitalism, Ethics, Faith, and Justice," on February 2, 2021. Featured speakers included: John P. Brown, MBA '74, MDiv '88...

Introducing Divinity Dialogues—a special edition podcast series from Harvard Divinity School that puts conversations on faith, purpose, and bearing witness at the center of today’s most pressing issues. Today, we hear from HDS alum Joshua Eaton, MDiv ’10...

On April 15, 2014, members of the jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school in northern Nigeria and threatened to " sell them in the market, by Allah, in an effort to end Western education." Nations around the world condemned...

On Monday, June 23, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) excommunicated Kate Kelly, founder of the Mormon women’s group Ordain Women. In its decision, the all-male panel wrote that Kelly had "persisted in an aggressive effort to persuade...

The Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, MDiv '97, says that she used to be a "well-behaved woman." She was a devoted wife and mother, a good doctor, and was active in her local parish. Then she came to Harvard Divinity School and learned to misbehave. "Well...

A day or two after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, journalist Monique Parsons, MTS '91, was glued to her television set, watching the major news organizations' coverage of the events. At some point, one of the anchors asked, "Why do they hate...

I arrived at the church 15 minutes late. This was a bad omen for the rest of the afternoon—or so I thought. I had gotten lost, very lost, but I was not without direction. The young attendant seated behind the counter of a gas station on Route 66 had done...