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The original "freedom schools" offered a free, progressive education to Black students in the Civil Rights era-South. At Harvard, HDS alum Najha Zigbi-Johnson and Lesedi Graveline, MTS '21, reimagine what an Ivy League education could look like.

Walter Smelt III, MTS candidate, will speak on behalf of the graduate students during Harvard's 2017 Commencement morning exercises.

Rev. Steven R. Jungkeit, the senior minister of The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme in Connecticut, and a Lecturer on Ethics at HDS, said his church is offering sanctuary to a married couple and their child as the couple faced deportation.

Johnna Loreen, MTS '18, works as an education navigator, advocating for and advising people who want to start or continue their education upon their release from incarceration.

Don Abram, MDiv ’19, is the founder of Pride in the Pews, a nonprofit that seeks to amplify the voices and experiences of queer Christians in the Black Church.

Sarah Sturm, MTS ’20, works as the program coordinator for partnerships at Telos, a nonprofit that builds communities of American peacemakers and equips them to help reconcile global conflicts.

HDS students Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile and HDS alumnus Derek van Bever discuss the growing numbers of the religiously unaffiliated in America. Read ‘ New Ministries for Millennials’ Listen iTunes SoundCloud

"We have been on pilgrimage together in this extraordinary wilderness of pandemic and uprising, and like all pilgrimages, we have been led to places we may not have known we needed to go," says Kerry Maloney, HDS chaplain and director of religious and...

On a warm October afternoon, 50 students, faculty, and staff members from the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) convened at the HDS Community Garden, located on an 800-square-foot plot behind the Center for the Study of World Religions. The gathering featured...

"I never imagined myself where I am today. I learned to let go of thinking that there was a certain way things needed to happen. I let go of a rigid way of holding onto things. Life doesn’t unfold like you expect."

HDS Professor Mark Jordan has been named a member of the 2019 class of national and international leaders elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A report was released by HDS students Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile mapping a new cohort of businesses and non profits that are providing answers to the same needs that churches and organized religion once provided.