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It's considered a serious threat to the future and it's what HDS Dean David N. Hempton called one of the topics of our lifetime. Climate change and its impact on the world are why HDS holds among its values a commitment to sustainability and being a good...

Dudley Rose, associate dean for ministry studies, discusses anger in the Bible and why claiming "righteous anger" can be dangerous.

The 2015 recipients of Harvard Divinity School's Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors include a diplomat, a chaplain, an activist, an advisor, and a scholar. While these individuals—and their professions—may seem disparate, Dean David N. Hempton says...

Wallace D. Best has accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and will join the Faculty of Divinity in July 2004. "The addition of a superb American religious historian to our faculty...

Dean Hempton, joined two other Harvard scholars and President Drew Faust in London to offer local alumni insights into what personal fulfillment means in a discussion called “The Examined Life.”

In her Harvard Divinity School Convocation address, HDS Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura S. Nasrallah recalled her efforts studying a Greek mosaic and her pondering the sometimes obscurity of her work. "I wondered: Was I a...

On his tenth birthday, Akhil Gupta’s mother cooked up a big batch of food to give to the poor in the old section of Delhi. Then she took her son down to their first stop, a Hindu temple. Next stop was the Sikh temple, then the places of worship for Jains...

Enoch Joseph Aboi had been serving as a pastor for his church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria when in 2015 he started teaching full time at Evangelical Christian Winning All (ECWA) Theological Seminary. But Aboi soon realized that he was ready for more...

Calling abuse and violence toward women and girls the most horrendous human rights issue on Earth, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter charged the hundreds who came to hear him talk at Harvard to stop the harm being done to half of the world's population...

As head of religion research at the "fact tank" Pew Research Center, Alan Cooperman deals heavily in numbers. But he also knows that "numbers seldom tell the whole story," and that the students and scholars at Harvard are the people who can provide...

The Massachusetts Architectural Access Board awarded the 2000 William D. Smith Memorial Award to the architects for the recent renovation of Divinity Hall at Harvard Divinity School. The Architectural Access Board's annual awards program recognizes...

On Wednesday, May 25, and Thursday, May 26, HDS and Harvard University celebrated Commencement. At HDS, 130 degrees were awarded to graduating students. Proud family members and friends, staff, alumni, and the students themselves, shared pictures, videos...