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The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism—but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How...

Vittorio Falsina was born in Brescia, Italy, on October 11, 1962. At the age of 12 he entered training with the Xaverian Missionary Fathers order. A skilled musician, he helped to lead the choir of his school. He was also a gifted pianist. Falsina...

Margaux Fitoussi’s world has changed before her eyes more than once. Born in France, she lived in Paris until she was 7, when her parents—she an American dancer and he a doctor of Tunisian origin—divorced. Next was a home on the edge of the ocean in Long...

Three highly regarded faculty with a combined 92 years of service to Harvard Divinity School retired on June 30, 2009. Harvey G. Cox, Jr., has been teaching at HDS and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1965. He arrived as Associate Professor of...

November 11, 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, a conflict that claimed the lives of nearly nine million soldiers and civilians, with more than three times that number wounded, taken prisoner, or gone missing. One century later...

As the director of Harvard Business School’s Forum for Growth and Innovation and senior lecturer of business administration, Derek van Bever, MBA ’88, MDiv ’11, makes management education his ministry. In so doing, he draws on his HDS experience and...

Gordon Dester Kaufman, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, died on Friday, July 22, at age 86. A member of the Faculty of Divinity since 1963, Kaufman was a renowned liberal theologian whose research...

Among the more than 300,000 people who took part in the People's Climate March in New York City on September 21 were former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and HDS student Annastasia Mullen. Mullen, MDiv '15, went to New York to join...

Katherine Collins, MTS ’11, is on the move again. In 2008, Collins left her position as the head of equity research at Fidelity Investments, where she oversaw assets of over $20 billion, to come to HDS and develop the ethical foundation she saw as...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 90 this year. While his name and his contribution to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement are revered, some wonder if Dr. King’s legacy is in jeopardy amid a resurgence of racism, xenophobia, and hate...

Duncan Gardner, MDiv ’14, is one of the growing number of alumni of the HDS Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI), the first program of its kind at a divinity school associated with a major research university. He tells the inmates in the Tennessee prison...

The Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray felt called to Arizona at a time when the state was ground zero for the controversy on immigration that today dominates the headlines. It didn’t take long for the issue to become personal. The Unitarian Universalist...