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Yom Kippur approaches at the end of another year of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. As a Jew living this year in Israel, I've been thinking a lot lately about the Biblical injunction to "seek peace and pursue it" (Psalm 34:15). I'm sad to say...

On the last day of his retreat in upstate New York, newly minted Buddhist Lama Rod Owens was ready to celebrate. Friends and family gathered for the occasion, anxiously awaiting their first glimpse of Owens in over three years. A feast was laid out...

Professor Jon Levenson writes about the new Museum of the Bible and how there is no universal way to read or exhibit the bible.

This summer, thanks to several generous gifts in support of Dean David N. Hempton’s campaign initiatives, HDS continued its ongoing effort to provide students with financial support so that they can serve communities locally and abroad through...

This summer, thanks to several generous gifts in support of Dean David N. Hempton’s campaign initiatives, HDS continued its ongoing effort to provide students with financial support so that they can serve communities locally and abroad through...

Krister Stendahl, who played a crucial role in shaping the life and work of Harvard Divinity School, just as he was also a pioneer in the broader realm of ecumenical relations, died on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at the age of 86. He had been in failing...

It was the mid-1970s and, after one year at Harvard Divinity School, Margaret Rose still had not found her calling. She had a passion for theology and for social justice, but wasn’t convinced that a career as a religious leader was for her, so she went...

The tradition of HDS graduates speaking and acting publicly—and often prophetically—extends back to the School’s earliest years. In his address to the graduating class of 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, HDS ’26, railed against a church “which seems to totter...

As a soldier in WWII, Ben Ferencz, JD '43, participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, sites of some of the worst atrocities in human history. When the war was over, as chief prosecutor of one of the Nuremberg trials, he brought to justice...

The Rev. Dr. Alton B. Pollard III, MDiv ’81, says that we are living through a "Kairos moment"—a time when people everywhere are called to a greater awareness of the humanity they share with one another. He sees it in the Black Lives Matter movement's...

In 1815, the Reverend William Ellery Channing laid out a vision for the graduates of the institution that would become Harvard Divinity School. In a fundraising circular written over the signature of Harvard President John T. Kirkland, Channing wrote that...

Hindu monastics bring Vedanta to HDS and gain new perspectives on their tradition—and others Just like any student at Harvard, Swami Sarvapriyananda had dreams about what he would do when he grew up. As he sat in a classroom in Rockefeller Hall on Harvard...