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"We at Harvard must be a model. . . . It is true that the climate change and the challenge of sustainability are global problems. But climate change is also a local problem. Solving it begins with each of us. Every person at Harvard—student, faculty...

Based on in-depth interviews with Jewish Palestine solidarity activists and a study of Jewish solidarity movements on social media, Atalia Omer demonstrates in When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and...

HDS welcomed scores of new graduate students to campus during Orientation, which kicked off the week of August 24. The 2015-16 incoming class includes approximately 120 students who represent about 20 religious traditions. They come from 32 states and...

"Looking into the eyes of someone facing death is one of the most powerful things a person can do," said Annette Nicolas, a Boston Theological Institute student enrolled in a hospital chaplaincy course at Harvard Divinity School. Working with the elderly...

Professor Davíd Carrasco has been to "the place where the gods were created." That's what the Aztecs called the monumental capital city of Teotihuacan centuries after its fall. Teotihuacan, located about 30 miles northeast of Mexico City, with its long...

On December 9, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its report on the interrogation techniques employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The committee found that the CIA...

The United States' general response to the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, and its invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have left many Muslims feeling besieged. In the United States, they protest that the Patriot Act and other regulations target...

Paula Smith was 33 years old the first time she encountered a female minister. That minister was the Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, Chaplain of Brown University, who happens to be an alumna of Harvard Divinity School. The two became friends after Smith...

It wasn't a typical, carefree spring-break trip. Rather than focusing on their own "r & r," five Harvard Divinity School students, one alumna, and two staff members decided to give comfort to Ground Zero site workers for two days during their March break...

Early in September of 2001, Milia Islam was already anticipating a tough transition in coming to a big northeastern city such as Boston after having lived most of her life in a small Missouri town (Fulton, population 10,000), and in undertaking a Harvard...

It’s hard not to be astonished by the sheer breadth of Jim Hackett’s achievements. He attended the United States Air Force Academy, where he flew jets and was qualified as a glider pilot. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School. He worked as a field...

Though Taylor Petrey did his doctoral work on ancient Christian debates about the resurrection, this last year he found himself teaching a course at HDS on the 200-year-old tradition of Mormonism—a newcomer, by the standards of world religions. Petrey...