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HDS students Mary Balkon, Aric Flemming, and Jade Sylvan deliver sermons for the Billings Preaching Prize Competition during Noon Service on April 10, 2019. The competition winner was Jade Sylvan. In addition, Isaac Martinez, the Massachusetts Bible...

At first glance, it might appear that the five research associates with the Women's Studies in Religion Program at HDS this year don't have much in common—other than the fact that they're all women. To an extent probably greater than ever before, these...

At morning exercises in Harvard Yard on May 25, graduating MTS student Walter Smelt III spoke on behalf of Harvard graduate students on recognizing the limits of knowledge and engaging with the wider world. ♦♦♦ To get into Harvard’s Widener Library, you...

PBS’s latest series, Native America, explores the world created by America’s first peoples. The four-part series, which premieres October 23, reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and...

As a soldier in WWII, Ben Ferencz, JD '43, participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, sites of some of the worst atrocities in human history. When the war was over, as chief prosecutor of one of the Nuremberg trials, he brought to justice...

This session is of interest to anyone considering attending the HDS Executive Education Program—Religious Resources for Living Beyond Crisis—being held virtually June 6 through June 10. Our Faculty Director, Charlie Hallisey, walked through the program’s...

James L. Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and member of the Faculty of Divinity, has won the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, The Bible as It Was. The Award, a $200,000...

James L. Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and member of the Faculty of Divinity, won the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, The Bible as It Was. The Award, a $200,000...

Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies Matthew L. Potts was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving for the Graduating Class on May 27, 2015. Below are his remarks, as prepared for delivery: It's a great honor to stand in...

Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 8, 2018.

Bernard Greenwald was born in Newark, New Jersey, and studied art at the Philadelphia College of Art and at Yale University. He has been a professor of studio arts at Bard College for 32 years. In the latter part of his career, he has taught writing as...

At a venerable private school in Massachusetts, some of the best and brightest seniors showed up recently for an advanced course in Islamic studies. The teacher eagerly started off by trying to delve into subjects of Islamic culture and law, but she found...