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“From his days as a Camphill volunteer coworker to his ongoing work raising consciousness of Camphill’s vital contributions to humanity and environmentalism, Professor McKanan has done much to advance communities where people of all abilities are embraced...

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...

The April 4 launch of the $50-million Campaign for HDS included panel discussions on religion and the literary imagination, religion and human rights, and the role of religion in public life, as well as music and remarks from both Dean Hempton and...

Held on December 7–8, 2017, the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative (RLPI) explored the complicated roles religions play in our nation’s multi-faceted debate over immigration, and how understanding those roles may help government agencies...

Dean David N. Hempton and Harvard President Drew Faust gathered with faculty, students, and alumni on the HDS campus April 4 to celebrate the launch of the Divinity School’s capital campaign. The festivities included panel discussions on religion and the...

"Our lives are so fragile. They always have been. We are always living on the brink, on the edge, at the threshold. Every single day carries the possibility of our last judgment. Every breath is a prelude to the apocalypse. As the philosopher and mystic...

On May 15 in New York City, WSRP Research Associate Zilka Spahic Šiljak spoke about her new book, Shining Humanity: Life Stories of Women Peace-builders in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The event moderator was Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in...

Bazzana uncovers the truth about the book of Revelation in early Christianity—and today Coronavirus. Unemployment. Social unrest. People often describe the times we’re living in as “apocalyptic,” but Giovanni Bazzana wouldn’t necessarily agree. “Today...

A message from David N. Hempton, Dean of Harvard Divinity School Today we announce a big step forward for Harvard Divinity School—the launch of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School. At its core, Religion and Public Life (RPL) is about...

The annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality was presented on December 6 by Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, Princeton University, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Presidential Medal of...

This talk examines the higher-dimensional time theories of the British aviator and writer John Dunne. Dunne developed a theory of time in which human beings transcended time and space in dreams. His views reverberated throughout popular culture in Europe...

Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies, spoke on November 9 as part of the series "Have Mercy: The Religious Dimensions of the Writings of Toni Morrison." Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities...