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Lydia Bremer had an unusual and lofty aim in her first year as a Harvard Divinity School student. "I made it my goal my first year to try and study in as many of the libraries as possible, and I reached a pretty substantial sum of them," said the master...

The following essay was written by the Founding Students of The HDS Responsible Organization Initiative. On June 5, 2020, Jamie Dimon was photographed kneeling in front of a local bank alongside branch employees, posed in solidarity with the Black Lives...

Jalane Schmidt could hear the chants across the street from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Charlottesville, Virginia on the night of August 11, 2017. “Blood and soil!” the torch-bearing marchers shouted as they gathered in front of a statue of Thomas...

The call to service is literally in Harvard Divinity School’s DNA. It’s visible in the vision of Harvard President John Kirkland, considered by many to be the founder of HDS, who appealed to alumni in 1815 for support of an institution that would prepare...

The Reverend James Lawson admits that it sometimes troubles him when people view him as a living artifact of the civil rights movement, especially because he has been arrested for civil disobedience more times in the last 10 years than he ever was during...

Shira Telushkin, a student at Harvard Divinity School, is one of 12 journalism students and early-career journalists chosen by Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) to participate in a two-week program in Germany and Poland...

On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 6 pm, a woman whose image is indelibly inscribed in our national consciousness spoke to the Harvard community in the Memorial Church, although she would probably have gone unrecognized until she explained who she is. Ruby...

It's hard to pin Albert Raboteau down. Before earning his doctorate in religious history, he studied English literature and theology. Now, as a visiting professor at HDS, he's teaching a seminar on the intersection of literature and spirituality. He's...

At morning exercises in Harvard Yard on May 25, graduating MTS student Walter Smelt III spoke on behalf of Harvard graduate students on recognizing the limits of knowledge and engaging with the wider world. ♦♦♦ To get into Harvard’s Widener Library, you...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Professor Dan McKanan about his fall 2017 class “Alternative Spiritualities in the United States,” which...

Margaux McDonald graduated in 2008 with a master of theological studies degree from HDS and a master of public administration degree from Harvard Kennedy School. She is currently on leave from her position as a financial analyst in Harvard's Office of...

Every Friday for two hours, 24 Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan, and spiritual or not-religiously-identified HDS students gather for "America's Religious Pluralism: A Case Studies Approach," a seminar co-taught by HDS professor Diana Eck...