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The Rev. Charles G. Adams, one of the most prominent and dynamic ministers in the United States, has joined Harvard's Faculty of Divinity as the first William and Lucille Nickerson Professor of the Practice of Ethics and Ministry, starting a five-year...

One of the oldest scholarly theological journals in the United States has a new editor. Harvard Divinity School Professor of New Testament Giovanni Bazzana became the new editor of Harvard Theological Review on July 1. Founded 112 years ago, HTR provides...

While at HDS, Casey found the resources to think deeply about lived religion and civil society Shaun Casey, MDiv '83, ThD '98, sat with a local imam in a café in Sub-Saharan Africa. A careless word or gesture could cause offense and derail the important...

The Right Rev. Vashti Murphy McKenzie, the first woman to be elected bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (in July, 2000), was greeted in a reception at 5:30 pm, and then speak as part of a panel discussion on Wednesday, October 1, in the...

Ahmed Ragab, physician, historian, and scholar of the medieval and modern Middle East, has been named the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2011. Ragab was a visiting lecturer at...

Standing on the roof of the Center for the Study of World Religions (built in 1960), you can see Jewett House (1913), Andover Hall (1911), and now, solar panels (2014). The juxtaposition highlights the Center's and Harvard Divinity School's commitment to...

For more than 100 years, Harvard Theological Review has been a leading source for compelling original research from established scholars in the fields of religion and theology. Now, the Review has a new managing editor, and the journal’s editors are...

On the 203rd anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth, Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) have announced the completion of funding for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Professorship...

On September 16, an ecumenical group of 10 Boston-area Christians, including several HDS students, drove to New York City in two cramped hatchbacks to attend the first day of the Occupy Wall Street protest. Most of us had not met each other until that...

Panelists Mara Willard, Jay Williams, Josslyn Luckett, and HDS professors Stephanie Paulsell and David Carrasco spoke on December 6 as part of the series "Have Mercy: The Religious Dimensions of the Writings of Toni Morrison." Toni Morrison, the Robert F...

For an update on the Gospel of Jesus's Wife papyrus, including scientific testing results and an article by Karen L. King in the April 2014 Harvard Theological Review, go to the Gospel of Jesus's Wife website. ­­Four words on a previously unknown papyrus...

The below message was sent to members of the HDS community from Dean David N. Hempton on October 20, 2020. I first want to take this opportunity to thank everyone in our HDS community—students, staff, and faculty—for their forbearance, resilience, and...