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Barbara Zimbalist, 2018–19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture "Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Visionary Translation, Divine Rhetoric, and Verbal Devotion in England, France, and the Low Countries."

Much has been written about the Northern Ireland peace process, particularly on securing the peace. However, as Senator George Mitchell commented in relation to the Good Friday agreement, “If you think getting this agreement was difficult, implementing it...

Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies and Interim Pusey Minister at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on September 5, 2019. ♦♦♦ Happy are...

Professor Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America delivered the 2019 Convocation address “Toni Morrison Stories: Goodness and Mercy and Mexico.” FULL TRANSCRIPT: [MUSIC PLAYING] [APPLAUSE] RAMONA PETERS: [SPEAKING...

HDS Professor Dan McKanan delivered a presentation on his latest book, Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition, on March 5. Discussants of the book were Timothy McCarthy, Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy...

Cornel West's course, “ American Democracy,” co-taught with Harvard Law School professor Roberto Unger, addressed the rise of inequality and nationalism in the United States through the lenses of class, race, and identity, and suggested ways to work for...

Renowned scholar of American religious history David F. Holland has been named Associate Professor of North American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2013. Holland is currently Associate Professor in the Department of...

K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer on American Religious History and Ethics, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 20, 2020. ♦♦♦

The tradition of HDS graduates speaking and acting publicly—and often prophetically—extends back to the School’s earliest years. In his address to the graduating class of 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, HDS ’26, railed against a church “which seems to totter...

Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, speaks on moral courage and civil disobedience.

With the greens of summer beginning to die, autumn is upon us. In the otherworldly, golden light seen only in September and October, and most astonishingly in New England, we prepare to begin again. For every scholar—that's each of you, by the way—who was...

HDS professor Laura Nasrallah's online course may be the largest scholarly discussion of Biblical studies in history.