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1114 results for "HDS in the News"
1114 results for "HDS in the News"

Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture

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The Sultan of Sokoto is the religious leader of Nigeria’s Muslim community, which consists of approximately half of the country's nearly 160 million inhabitants, and of millions of Muslims in adjoining countries in West Africa. He serves Nigeria as...

There Is No 'Other' Here

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Kevin Cranston and the truth of pandemics Kevin Cranston, MDiv ’86, learned early on that viruses tell the truth. As a gay man coming of age during the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, he saw the ways that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) crossed...

HDS Professor Receives Funding from Battelle Memorial Institute

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Laura Salah Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, has received funding from the Battelle Memorial Institute to organize a symposium. Scholars of diverse disciplinary training will meet for a symposium...

Audio: The Life, Art, and Activism of Corita Kent

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Corita Kent, an American Catholic nun, educator, and artist, is the subject of what have become two popular exhibits currently on display at Harvard, one of which was curated with the help of an HDS alum. Eva Payne, MDiv '10, helped curate the exhibit "...

A Ministry of Presence

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Whittney Barth graduated from HDS on May 26 with a master of divinity degree. Below, she describes how her life has been impacted by her experience at HDS, offers some advice for incoming students, and discusses her future plans. I was originally...

An HDS Alum, a Xerox Machine, and the Pentagon Papers

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Since the release of Steven Spielberg’s latest film, The Post, there’s been a spike in interest about the Pentagon Papers, a classified study of the U.S. government’s decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War. The Papers were first released by Daniel...

To Go Beyond Fear

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2020 Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honoree Milia Islam, MTS ’04, was eight years old when her family moved to the United States from Bangladesh, settling eventually in Fulton, MO. The small town was overwhelmingly white and very...

Detour in the Right Direction

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Having worked as a lawyer for 12 years before entering Harvard Divinity School in the fall of 2012, Sejal Patel knows the challenges of taking a detour mid-career. "When you're at a certain tenure level and age, if you elect to not adopt that route...

Video: Anne E. Monius Memorial Service

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HDS faculty and friends remembered Professor Anne E. Monius during a memorial service on October 11, 2019. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, passed away on August 3, 2019. FULL TRANSCRIPT: [INDIAN MUSIC PLAYING] Good...

Peter Gomes Receives Black Alumni/ae Award

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The Harvard Divinity School Alumni/ae Association is pleased to announce that the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Preston N. Williams Black Alumni/ae Award. He will...