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Both secular and faith-inspired international humanitarian organizations would benefit from a higher level of religious literacy to understand the religious dimensions of the contexts in which they work, concludes a new report by researchers from Oxfam...

Eliza Griswold has traveled the world researching conflicts. Over the summer, The New York Times Magazine published her article " Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East?" For her first book, The Tenth Parallel, she spent years traveling in...

Religious leaders from the HDS community share spiritual resources for hard times The COVID-19 pandemic both engenders and accentuates the greatest challenges of the human condition: loneliness, loss, suffering, and mortality. Confronted with these, the...

Whether you’re packing for a trip to the beach or woods, or comfortably settling onto your couch this vacation season, HDS has some book suggestions you may want to add to your bag or side table. Members of the HDS community recently shared what they’ll...

Soon after the 2004 presidential election, HDS professor Amy Hollywood was asked to participate in a panel discussion on the outcome of the voting. Hollywood remembers, "All I did was to present a hypothesis that I'd read in a smart web newsletter...

Few changes have been more dramatic in the long history of Harvard Divinity School than the inclusion of women—both as scholars and the subject of scholarship. In that context, 1973 was a milestone. That year, HDS established its Women’s Studies in...

Enoch Joseph Aboi had been serving as a pastor for his church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria when in 2015 he started teaching full time at Evangelical Christian Winning All (ECWA) Theological Seminary. But Aboi soon realized that he was ready for more...

This past year, HDS began a major renewal project on our main campus building, welcomed new Hindu monastics in residence, became inspired—yet again—by the words and work of our faculty and students, and experienced many momentous moments. With 2019 coming...

Harvard University was founded in 1636 to help establish "a learned ministry." Nearly four centuries later, Harvard Divinity School works to produce a learned ministry for modern times, and the focus of its scholars and educators has widened to include...

The 2015 recipients of Harvard Divinity School's Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors include a diplomat, a chaplain, an activist, an advisor, and a scholar. While these individuals—and their professions—may seem disparate, Dean David N. Hempton says...

In December 1815, President John T. Kirkland, appealed for support of the “best and noblest cause, which human benevolence is permitted to advance”: the education of ministers at Harvard University. His letter to the School’s alumni described society’s...

Read about the latest news and publications from HDS faculty. Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, gave the paper "Values and Ways of Knowing: Conflicts and Confluences between Buddhism and Medicine in Tibet" at Healing Texts, Healing...