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by Colleen Walsh, Harvard Gazette Harvard Divinity School Dean David Hempton knows too well the cost of religious conflict. As a college student in Belfast in the 1970s, he witnessed the 'tragedies of violence' that marked 'The Troubles' between the...

Preeminent New Testament scholar and religious historian François Bovon passed away Friday, November 1, in Aubonne, Switzerland, after a long illness. He was 75. Bovon was Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion Emeritus at Harvard Divinity...

Here . . . time is measured in bells. — noe venable Her performance on the evening of June 2 in Andover Chapel did not seem like that of an amateur. The acting, the singing, the writing—this was surely the creation of an experienced playwright or...

The theologian and historian Daniel Patrick McKanan has been named the inaugural incumbent of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Chair of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. McKanan, who has taught at the College of Saint Benedict...

When Karen Vickers and Albert Budney went with their high school senior class to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, they were impressed by its theme of "Peace through Understanding"—so much so that 25 years later, after the couple had married, the...

Kim Davis, clerk of Kentucky's Rowan County, inspired passionate responses from all quarters recently when she refused to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Many in her community see Davis as a civil rights crusader, standing up for religious...

Laura Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at HDS, has long been interested in the ways the ancient letters of the Apostle Paul provide evidence of the interaction between Jews and Gentiles in the ancient world. One of the pressing...

The 2019 Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial honorees speak on the topic of “spiritual innovation.” The panelists were: Erik Martínez Resly, MDiv ’12, founder and co-director of The Sanctuaries in Washington D.C. Salma Kazmi, MTS ’09, founding executive...

This online event to honor and recognize the HDS Class of 2020 took place May 28 and featured remarks from Dean David N. Hempton, the HDS Class of 2020 Student Speaker Ashley Lipscomb, a reading of the graduates names, and the sharing of well wishes...

The ongoing destruction of Earth’s natural systems is the result of decisions, made daily, by billions of people. These decisions are voluntary and involuntary at once, collective and personal. Two indigenous leaders—Nainoa Thompson and Angaangaq...

Anaïs Garvanian is a first-year MTS student at HDS focusing on the history of Christianity. She works as a gallery attendant at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art. In the essay below, she writes about her interpretation...

Curated by Terry Tempest Williams and Geralyn White Dreyfous, “The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination” is a special film series and salon open to all members of the Harvard community as well as the general public. The films, which...