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Casper ter Kuile was as surprised as anyone when he found himself applying to divinity school. "I think I always experienced religion as aggressive and judgemental—a place that didn't want me so I didn't want it," says ter Kuile. But after years on the...

As someone who recently earned her master of theological studies degree, Mitul Daiyan never pictured herself playing a role in launching a social venture start-up, but the HDS graduate is doing exactly that. Daiyan, MTS '15, is one of the founders of...

The HDS Office of Admissions recently caught up with one of our master of theological studies degree candidates, Jim Hackett. Known for both his business acumen and for his cheerful and friendly disposition around campus, Jim participated in the Special...

Steven Salido Fisher está realizando un trabajo venerable simplemente al escuchar las historias que las personas comparten desde sus corazones. El estudiante de la Escuela de Teología de Harvard (HDS, por sus siglas en inglés) está trabajando en una...

The once prevalent suggestion that religious thinkers and scientific scholars cannot truly engage in meaningful discourse has been mostly reduced to a moot point. Take, for example, two recent MTS graduates from Harvard Divinity School, Mara Block and...

Yom Kippur approaches at the end of another year of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. As a Jew living this year in Israel, I've been thinking a lot lately about the Biblical injunction to "seek peace and pursue it" (Psalm 34:15). I'm sad to say...

The HDS Summer Language Program is an eight-week, intensive program in language study designed specifically for the curriculum in theological and religious studies and taught with a focus on translation and reading comprehension in a foreign language...

When Lauren Taylor and Yale professor Elizabeth Bradley published The American Health Care Paradox in 2013, policy makers and public health scholars praised their work. This year, Brown University Medical School will make the book, which contradicts...

India is choosing a new government. Many pundits predict that the country's 814 million voters will make Narendra Modi, head of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the next prime minister of the world's largest democracy when the election ends on May 12 and...

On the last day of his retreat in upstate New York, newly minted Buddhist Lama Rod Owens was ready to celebrate. Friends and family gathered for the occasion, anxiously awaiting their first glimpse of Owens in over three years. A feast was laid out...

Since he arrived at Harvard Divinity School two years ago as an MTS degree candidate, it has been Danny Ballon's mission to prove that "gay" and "Christian" are not antithetical. And while HDS has long been an LGBTQ-friendly community, Ballon is...

This summer, thanks to several generous gifts in support of Dean David N. Hempton's campaign initiatives, HDS launched a new effort to provide students with financial support so they can serve communities locally and abroad through organizations unable to...