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HDS associate director for development communications Paul Massari writes about the love and support he received from the HDS community after the tragic death of his mother.

HDS student Heather Rick talks about her unlikely road to HDS, the role of writers in today's political climate, and how she found inspiration in Muslim punk rock.

To mark the 75th anniversary of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Andover-Harvard Theological Library has created an exhibit of historic documents and images chronicling the decades of global human rights advocacy and humanitarian work by the...

Student River Olsen talks about how she didn’t know what community meant until she came out and allowed herself to be vulnerable and authentic.

The 2019 William James Lecture will be presented on May 1, 5:15 pm, by Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages, and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His talk, “ The Planet: An Emergent...

Recent grad Nick Zehner talks about his long, winding path to HDS, from attending a Christian college as an undergrad, to having his faith challenged, to ministering to patients as a hospital chaplain.

The sentencing to death of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev promises to ignite a national discussion of capital punishment. Christians weigh in on all sides of the issue, saying that scripture supports their position. Dr. R. Albert...

“If I’m not getting better, then I’m stagnating, and if I’m stagnating, what’s the point? So I have to be pushing myself, questioning who I am. Hinduism to me is finding my dharma through a process of self-improvement.”—Abhijith Ravinutala, MTS ’19

Considerable attention has been directed to the possibility of a technological singularity when artificial intelligences “wake up” and start acting in their own self-interest. Long before then, however, humanity will confront an ethical singularity—a...

"Literature offers me joy and the ability to exercise empathy. It’s a lot easier to practice empathy when it’s a character in a book and then when you run into a situation in the real world, it feels almost like you’ve practiced for that encounter."...

Graham Harvey, professor of religious studies at The Open University (UK), discusses animism and how our relations are damaged by ongoing efforts to separate (human) culture from ‘nature’ and humans from other species.

Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies Stephanie Paulsell was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Commencement Service on May 24, 2017. Below are her remarks: Professor Walton, Dean Hempton, dear colleagues...