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Preston Williams to Receive 2021 Harvard Medal

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The Harvard Alumni Association announced that HDS Professor Preston N. Williams, PhD ’67, will receive the 2021 Harvard Medal. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Emeritus, was the first tenured African American faculty member...

Highlighting Forgotten Histories

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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...

Video: Convocation 2013: Devotion in the Study of Religion

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HDS opened its 198th academic year on Thursday, August 29, 2013, with its annual Convocation activities. Featured in the video above are welcome remarks by HDS Dean David N. Hempton, an introduction to the speaker by Rev. Jonathan Walton, musical...

Academics and Journalists Unite Against Fake News

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On Thursday, Dec. 8, Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, lamented the dearth of good religion journalism in an NPR interview with Terry Gross. On the very same day, the Times's religion reporter, Laurie Goodstein, echoed his concerns...

Harvard Divinity Today, Fall 2010

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In this issue: The Varieties of an HDS Experience; A Message From the Dean; News From Around the School; Not Knowing What to Expect, Diving in Headfirst; In Troubled Times, Offering Safe Haven Download this issue

Spring 2021 Semester Plans

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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...

Slideshow: Ronald F. Thiemann

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View a selection of photos of Ronald F. Thiemann, who passed away on November 29, 2012, at age 66. Thiemann was long a vital presence at Harvard Divinity School, from 1986, when he was appointed Dean and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, and in the...

Religion and the West Wing

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Longtime presidential adviser and Harvard Kennedy School professor David Gergen captivated a packed audience at Harvard Divinity School in a wide-ranging conversation with HDS Dean David N. Hempton on religion, politics, and public life. The talk was a...

Video: HDS Gomes Honors Friend of the School Program

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HDS celebrated the 2021 Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Honors Friend of the School on May 11. Our 2021 Friend of the School is Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita of Harvard University the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, and longtime partner and...

Slideshow: 2014 Gomes Honors

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The 2014 Gomes Honors recipients were recognized in a ceremony on April 3, 2014, in Andover Chapel. Winners this year were: Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS '84; Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93; Elizabeth A. Eaton, MDiv '80; and Peter J. Isely, MDiv...

Hempton: Belonging at Harvard

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HDS Dean David N. Hempton is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe, North America, and beyond. On September 7, he spoke at the Morning Prayers service in The Memorial Church, Harvard...