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On Monday, March 8, Bill McKibben will present a lecture as part of the Ecologies of Human Flourishing series, sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. The lecture, "Reality Check: How the Facts of Life on a...

HDS Dean David N. Hempton launched the Campaign for Harvard Divinity School on April 4, 2014, with an address that laid out a bold vision that builds on the School's tradition of religious education, service, and scholarly excellence. What follows is the...

Representatives of three of the world’s major religions tangled over the beginnings of human life, the disposal of surplus embryos from in vitro fertilization clinics, and the conduct of embryonic stem cell research at HDS.

Professor Jon Levenson discusses his latest book, The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism, in which he explores the origin and development of the idea of "love of God."

Dr. Anthony B. Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University, delivered the annual named William James Lecture. Listen

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

Katie Ford and Sarah Sentilles studied under Gordon Kaufman a decade ago when they were enrolled in the MDiv program at HDS. Ford, MDiv '01, went on to become a poet and professor of English, and Sentilles, MDiv '01, earned a ThD from HDS in 2008 and...

HDS Dean David N. Hempton is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe, North America, and beyond. On September 21, 2016, he spoke at the Morning Prayers service in Holden Chapel, Harvard...

HDS Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J. writes in his latest blog post that the dour headlines of loss and decay don't reflect the fact that more is happening to bring people together than ever before in human history.

The Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving for the Class of 2013 took place in the Memorial Church on May 29, 2013. The faculty speaker was Susan Abraham, who delivered the talk "The Vocation of Human Be-ing."

Karen Tse had a vision. As a second-year student at HDS in the late 1990s, she imagined founding an organization that would end the use of torture by law enforcement around the world. She even made her dream the topic of her master of divinity thesis...

A few years ago, Harvard President Drew Faust commissioned a University-wide Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. The presidential charge delivered to the committee, under the title “From Diversity to Belonging,” states that: “ A community that draws on...