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Religion is a powerful influence on human affairs, nowhere more visibly than in its capacity to help both ignite and resolve conflict. Now a new collaboration between Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Kennedy School will enable scholars to study the...

In July 2013, HDS Dean David N. Hempton received an honorary doctorate of literature from Queen's University Belfast, his undergraduate alma mater, where he later returned as a lecturer in modern history. In front of Queen's faculty, staff, and students...

In a short Q&A, HDS student Zac Dutton talks about his involvement in the Friends at HDS group, his research on social conflict, and the interfaith community at the Divinity School. Could you provide a brief introduction to the Friends at HDS student...

Harvard Divinity School is pleased to announce that E.J. Dionne, the distinguished journalist and author, political commentator, and longtime op-ed columnist, will join the School for the 2017–18 academic year as a William H. Bloomberg Visiting Professor...

Spalding University announced this week that Tori Murden McClure, MDiv '89, will become the university’s 10th president, effective July 1, 2010. McClure, who serves as vice president of external relations, enrollment management, and student affairs at...

What an honor to be here! What a privilege, what a blessing to salute the Class of 2019, Harvard Divinity School. The first thing we want to do is to acknowledge that we are who we are because somebody loved us. Let’s give it up for Mom, let’s give it up...

For Marianne Williamson, politics is not only personal, it is spiritual. The best-selling author of such self-help books as A Return to Love and The Healing of America not only believes in this connection, she stresses that ignoring—or, worse, severing—it...

"We have unknowingly sacrificed our children in order to feed Moloch," said author Russell Banks, describing Moloch—a Levantine god to whom children were sacrificed—as "god of capitalism." Considered one of America's most important fiction writers, Banks...

On May 3, the RPP Colloquium dinner series hosted by Religions and the Practice of Peace (RPP) will feature lifelong peace advocate Benjamin B. Ferencz, JD '43 Harvard Law School (HLS), the lead prosecutor and last living prosecutor of the Nüremberg...

In just a few days, 120 graduate students and early career scholars will converge at Harvard Divinity School for the second annual "Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion." The conference, held October 25-26, will feature panelists from 60...

The destruction of one of the world’s great civilizations. The slaughter of thousands of indigenous people—and the enslavement of thousands more. These atrocities were the consequence of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1519. Yet Davíd Carrasco...

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton commemorated the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks today with a visit to New York City, where he challenged students at one of the nation's elite independent schools to "better understand both the...