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HDS student Steven Salido Fisher and Senior Lecturer Cheryl Giles discuss how people are increasingly turning to a different kind of pastor when and where they’re needed.

"Choose courage in the face of fear and uncertainty. Remember that there are also positive contagions out there. Courage is contagious. Courage involves mustering the internal strength and conviction to face the horizons of an uncertain future, knowing...

"I think it's because they want that professional degree, and they want the respect that should come with that," said Patricia Simpson, counselor to Roman Catholic Students and Instructor in Ministry Studies at HDS. "I think they want to be able to state...

Longtime presidential adviser and Harvard Kennedy School professor David Gergen captivated a packed audience during the Dean's Leadership Forum in a wide-ranging conversation with HDS Dean David N. Hempton on religion, politics, and public life. Read more

Congratulations to the class of 2016, who received their diplomas during the HDS Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 26, 2016. Erez Golan, MTS ’16, was selected by his peers to deliver the student address. Read the full text of Golan's remarks. Listen iTunes...

Standing on the roof of the Center for the Study of World Religions (built in 1960), you can see Jewett House (1913), Andover Hall (1911), and now, solar panels (2014). The juxtaposition highlights the Center's and Harvard Divinity School's commitment to...

Cornell William Brooks, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Prophetic Religion and Public Leadership at HDS and Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the significance of the conviction of former...

On January 16, 2014, Cornelia Cannon Holden was the latest alumni guest invited to speak to students, alumni, and friends as part of the Divinity Dialogues series. Holden, who is the CEO, Mindful Warrior and Director, Core Leadership Portal at The...

Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93, says that he felt "slightly ridiculous" in 1990 when, at the age of 50, he enrolled in Harvard Divinity School's master of theological studies program. His friends and colleagues at home in France didn't offer him...

The final weeks of summer are upon us. Students and faculty will soon return to campus after more than a year away. Orientation starts in two weeks. The fall semester begins on September 1. Nevertheless, there are still more than a few days left to enjoy...

Mark D. Jordan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought (HDS) and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Faculty of Arts and Sciences), discusses his recent publication, Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas...

"So there it is: three monastics, two popes, one priest, all in two days, grounded in the HDS and Harvard realities of today. Such events are outside the rightfully ordinary mainstream of Catholic community and ministry, to be sure, but it is good that...