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The following words are the first portion of the Alumni/ae Day Address presented at Harvard Divinity School on June 7, 2006, by Margaret R. Miles, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and a...

HDS celebrated the 2021 Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Distinguished Alumni Honors on May 4. This year's alumni honorees are: Joshua Eaton, MDiv ’10; Dr. Omar Sultan Haque, MTS ‘04, MD ’08; Robin Coste Lewis, MTS '97; and Lama Rod Owens, MDiv ’17. A journalist...

Romania has made significant progress in its trek from Communism, but the path toward change has been a long and difficult one. With that in mind, Romanian government officials organized a conference on religious freedom where they sought the insight of...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) is pleased to announce four new members, who will begin terms of service on July 1, 2014.They are Richard A. Coutinho, MTS '94, LLM '02, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Quardricos Bernard Driskell, MTS '08, of Alexandria...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 90 this year. While his name and his contribution to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement are revered, some wonder if Dr. King’s legacy is in jeopardy amid a resurgence of racism, xenophobia, and hate...

Kimberly Blockett was a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin when her thesis director, Nellie McKay, encouraged her to read a spiritual narrative from 1846 written by Zilpha Elaw, a free black woman who travelled up and down the East Coast of the...

Jalane Schmidt could hear the chants across the street from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Charlottesville, Virginia on the night of August 11, 2017. “Blood and soil!” the torch-bearing marchers shouted as they gathered in front of a statue of Thomas...

As HDS enters its bicentennial year, there is an increasing representation of world religions at the School, which has fostered new communities and directions for alumni.

Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion Kimberley C. Patton was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Commencement Service on May 25, 2016. Below are her remarks: Dean Hempton, members of the faculty, honored guests, alumni...

The following reflection was written by Father Pishoy Salama, priest in the Coptic Orthodox Church and resident fellow at Harvard Divinity School during the 2019 fall semester. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it...

Read about the latest news and publications from HDS faculty. Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, gave the paper "Values and Ways of Knowing: Conflicts and Confluences between Buddhism and Medicine in Tibet" at Healing Texts, Healing...

It would not be a stretch to liken a seasoned and prolific academic to a major league ballplayer—someone sought after by the owners of opposing teams and even poised to break a few records. With 48 published books (one of them a Pulitzer nominee) and 5...