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More than 106,000 people from 181 countries have registered for Harvard Divinity School's free, online course "World Religions Through Their Scriptures."

In an op-ed, HDS professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J. expresses his concern over a planned black mass, hosted by the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club.

Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion Kimberley C. Patton, who teaches the course "Dreams and Dreaming" at HDS, discusses the role dreams played in earlier, more religious cultures.

Alumni, faculty, administrators, and students flocked to the Divinity School this weekend, celebrating its two centuries of existence with lectures, a panel of Harvard deans, and a bicentennial party, concluding a years-worth of festivities.

In his new book How to Read the Bible, HDS Professor Harvey Cox, an iconic theologian, reveals three primary ways of reading the holy book.

It is with great sadness that HDS mourns the passing of Alonzo L. McDonald, a longtime member of the Dean’s Council and a devoted friend of the School. Although not an alumnus of HDS, Mr. McDonald was a gracious partner of the School who was a member of...

One of the problems about being pope, said HDS professor Francis Clooney, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, is the immensely diverse set of political situations with which a pontiff’s words carry weight.

Professor Frank Clooney, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, writes about the recent conference "Religion, Ecology, and Our Planetary Future," which was attended by hundreds of people.

“I had not intended to go on into a ministry. I really had intended to take a year out and go back into foreign service, but after I had been there for about six months studying, I knew that this was the place where I wanted to be. I felt my calling was...

The president of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. One of the five newly elected Overseers is John Silvanus Wilson Jr., MTS '81, the president of Morehouse College...

CSWR director and Parkman Professor of Divinity Francis X. Clooney, S.J., discusses the recent court ruling against those holding vigil in a closed Scituate, Massachusetts church.

What really goes on inside Harvard Divinity School? Boston Common magazine takes a look in an article that describes the School as a gem "not just in Boston but for the world."