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From June 18 to 29, 2001, 49 people from all over the United States attended the Summer Leadership Institute (SLI), sponsored by Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life to train clergy, lay leaders, and community developers...

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was exercising on a treadmill when she received a call notifying her that she would soon become the next mayor of Baltimore. What the call didn’t explain was how her leadership abilities would be repeatedly tested. Rawlings-Blake...

The Rev. Dudley C. Rose, associate dean for ministry studies at HDS, delivered the following talk to students at the first meeting of "Introduction to Ministry Studies," a course he co-teaches with Professor Stephanie Paulsell. In James Michener's novel...

During his six-day visit to the United States Pope Francis will speak at the White House, deliver speeches to Congress and at the United Nations, and celebrate a Mass at Madison Square Garden. But Harvard professors say that other items on the pope's...

"When you see the rallies and the protests, listen past the words and look past the signs." The following reflection is by Irene Routte, MTS '14, who helped organize a group of HDS students and alumni who traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, this past summer...

This summer, when you and your kids were sitting through The Secret Life of Pets or some other blockbuster, you were actually watching a pretty sophisticated cultural product. The reason it may not have seemed that way to you is because you grew up with...

As it begins its third century, Harvard Divinity School can provide a valuable service to leaders across campus by helping them navigate the contentious religious issues they increasingly confront in their disciplines. That was the message offered by...

Betsee Parker's single-minded focus on service has been in evidence throughout her life, but perhaps never more so than on September 11, 2001. She and her late husband were in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan when the first plane hit...

Tamira Stephens, MTS '15 and project archivist at Andover-Harvard Theological Library, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on September 20, 2019. ♦♦♦

On June 30, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that some corporations have religious rights and cannot be required to pay for certain types of contraceptives for their employees. The 5-4 decision fell in favor of the closely held for...

On February 20, Donald Trump resoundingly won the South Carolina Republican primary and reinforced his position as the leading GOP candidate for president. Exit polling showed that evangelicals accounted for 72 percent of the vote (up from 65 percent four...

PBS’s latest series, Native America, explores the world created by America’s first peoples. The four-part series, which premieres October 23, reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and...