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It was the mid-1970s and, after one year at Harvard Divinity School, Margaret Rose still had not found her calling. She had a passion for theology and for social justice, but wasn’t convinced that a career as a religious leader was for her, so she went...

Members of the Faculty of Divinity are expressing doubts about the prospect of a U.S. military strike in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's reported use of chemical weapons on the country's civilian population. Ahmed Ragab, William Graham, and...

For 200 years, HDS graduates have carried an ethic of scholarship and service into their work for religious institutions, nonprofits, schools and universities, and governments around the world. But what about business? Do HDS alumni have an impact in the...

Each academic year, Harvard Divinity School is fortunate to claim an impressive roster of visiting professors and lecturers because of its numerous endowed lectureships and several semester- and year-long teaching opportunities for professors from other...

Delivering this year's Convocation address, entitled "Schools Visible and Invisible," was Mark Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity at HDS. The ceremony included a welcome from Dean David N. Hempton, music by Christopher...

"Fostering a sense of belonging requires context that allows students and faculty to be their authentic selves," says HDS Professor Mayra Rivera, chair of Harvard’s Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights. "We strive to keep that principle front and...

HDS Ministry Innovation Fellow Casper ter Kuile discusses how more and more, gathering for church no longer means coming together for Sunday morning worship with hymns and preaching under a steeple.

The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas S. Monson, died on January 2. Monson led the church for nearly 10 years, enabling a rise in the ranks of female Mormon missionaries and displaying an openness to scholars of...

Bill Rainer planned to enter Harvard Divinity School in the fall of 1999 as a full-time student. At age 53, the successful finance industry executive had discovered a passion for the study of religion and looked forward to immersing himself in the...

The Reverend James Lawson admits that it sometimes troubles him when people view him as a living artifact of the civil rights movement, especially because he has been arrested for civil disobedience more times in the last 10 years than he ever was during...

KMarie Tejeda, MDiv candidate and a seminarian at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on September 25, 2019.

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 7, he spoke at the Morning Prayers service in The Memorial Church, Harvard...