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On September 15, Donald K. Swearer delivered the 2008-09 Convocation Address: "An Ecology of Human Flourishing." Paul D. Hanson, Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity, delivered the Invocation; Dean William A. Graham provided welcoming remarks...

David Hysong, MDiv ’15, finished his master’s degree in intellectual history in 2011 and found himself with a year’s lag time before he planned to enter the U.S. Navy. He was young, good looking, and smart. Most people in his position would probably have...

Charles Stang, Professor of Early Christian Thought, has been appointed the next director of the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School, beginning July 1. He will succeed Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of...

Harvard Divinity School has announced that alumnus Thomas M. Chappell received the Dean's Distinguished Service Award on Thursday, April 8, 2010, during the annual meeting of the School's Leadership Council. A 1991 graduate of the School, Chappell is the...

Read about the latest news and publications from Harvard Divinity School faculty members. Cheryl A. Giles, Francis Greenwood Peabody Professor of the Practice in Pastoral Care and Counseling, presented 'Self, Other, and Culture in Psychoanalysis' in a...

When Joshua Leach was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, he volunteered as area coordinator of an Amnesty International student group in Illinois. While serving in that role, one of his responsibilities included preparing a newsletter that was...

August 12 was one of the darkest days I’ve seen since I became dean of HDS. White nationalists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, a confederate general during the American Civil War. The group, which...

Kerry Maloney, chaplain and director of religious and spiritual life at Harvard Divinity School and Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church, reflects on the combination of hope and lament that thread through our days in lockdown and reminds us to find...

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...

When Karen Vickers and Albert Budney went with their high school senior class to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, they were impressed by its theme of "Peace through Understanding"—so much so that 25 years later, after the couple had married, the...

This past fall, after 24 years, Peter Machinist retired from full-time teaching as the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, serving as faculty both in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department and...

This past year, HDS began a major renewal project on our main campus building, welcomed new Hindu monastics in residence, became inspired—yet again—by the words and work of our faculty and students, and experienced many momentous moments. With 2019 coming...