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Laura S. Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, has been named one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (PDF) for 2013-14 by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and...

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, a Stanford University scholar of social and cultural anthropology and of Africana and Latino/a studies, has been appointed Assistant Professor of African American Religions, effective July 1, 2009. "We are delighted to welcome...

Read about the latest news and publications from Harvard Divinity School faculty members. Cheryl A. Giles, Francis Greenwood Peabody Professor of the Practice in Pastoral Care and Counseling, presented 'Self, Other, and Culture in Psychoanalysis' in a...

In an age when even the pope tweets, it is only natural that Harvard Divinity School (HDS) has created its first online, interactive learning experience with help from HarvardX, the University-wide initiative to support faculty use of innovative...

Travis Stevens received a master of divinity degree on June 4. Here, he discusses the ways in which his experiences at HDS have helped to shape his life. What were your initial expectations before you started at HDS? Similarly, was there anything that...

At the beginning of the fall 2016 semester, Dean David Hempton sent an email letting the HDS community know that Ahmed Ragab had been promoted to the Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion. To those who know him, this announcement...

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 pace of change has sped up at the Vatican in recent months as key shifts in both personnel and tone have signaled a push by Pope Francis toward a more inclusive Catholic Church. In September, the pope tapped the moderate Bishop Blase Cupich to head...

Todne Thomas, an anthropologist who specializes in religion, race, and kinship, has been named Assistant Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School and a Suzanne Young Murray Assistant Professor at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for...

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...

Before he became an award-winning poet and Episcopal priest, Spencer Reece, MTS ’90, attended Harvard Divinity School. He took classes on Flannery O’Connor, the Bible, and the nineteenth-century Transcendentalist writer, poet, and HDS student Ralph Waldo...

Heresy. That's the way many in the Catholic and Protestant church hierarchies described the Coptic Christian literature discovered in Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that has been called "Gnostic." For Harvard Divinity School professor...