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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...

Part of the Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium Dinner Series, this event was held on October 6, 2016, and featured 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. Listen on...

Earlier this month, I was one of six Harvard Divinity School students sitting in the United Nations’ Security Council chamber listening to delegates from countries around the world talk about how faith and religion were both causes and solutions to peace...

A presentation by Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, in the series "Have Mercy: The Religious Dimensions of the Writings of Toni Morrison." Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita...

Harvey Cox, Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, spoke on October 26 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, Emerita, Princeton...

HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. Words of...

Karen L. King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, has been named as one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2012-13 by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS) and the Henry Luce...

On August 2, the Vatican announced a change in the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty. The new teaching rejects the notion that capital punishment is legitimate in some cases, declaring that “‘the death penalty is...

Millennials—Americans aged 18-34—who say they 'talk to God' outnumber those who say they do not by almost a 2-1 margin, according to a new survey by the Integrated Innovation Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. At the same time, only a bare majority...

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...

Although many have said that Judaism does not have a theology, it is clear that the Siddur, or Prayer Book, has a clear sense of the nature of God and God's relation to humans. In addition, as Franz Rosenzweig has suggested, Jewish liturgy invites Jews to...

Dr. David Livingstone delivers the 2014–15 Dudleian Lecture. Dr. Livingstone is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at the Queen's University, Belfast, where his work focuses on the histories of geographical knowledge, the spatiality of...