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Harvard Divinity School Announces Alumni/ae Award Recipients

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Harvard Divinity School has announced recipients of the two awards that are presented each June on its Alumni Day. At a luncheon held here on June 6, 2001, the First Decade Award will be given to Rick Santos, a Program Director for Church World Service...

Recent Grad Finds Healing in the Classroom

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At one time in the not-too-distant past, Mouhamadou Diagne seemed destined for a career in academia. He was enrolled as an MTS candidate at HDS in Religion, Ethics, and Politics, and was on course to pursue a PhD in education. But a chance encounter with...

Amid Violence, Learning to Listen to Each Other

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How can academic institutions address the fallout from acts of terror, such as the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris? Should they? During a recent HDS forum, "Violence, Freedom of Expression and Justice," panelists raised questions about free speech...

Hempton: Work Toward Peace Every Day

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HDS Dean David N. Hempton is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe, North America, and beyond. On September 21, 2016, he spoke at the Morning Prayers service in Holden Chapel, Harvard...

Crossover Classics

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The 2020 Gomes Honorees work at the intersection of religious and disciplinary boundaries Harvard Divinity School takes a different approach to the diversity of modern life than the “othering” that seems increasingly to roil societies around the world...

'The Earth, Our Home'

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Pope Francis's encyclical brings to mind Pope Paul VI's imperative. In his encyclical on social justice, Paul VI said that if we want peace, we must work for justice. Why? Because peace and justice are interconnected. Pope Francis's encyclical urges that...

Sustaining Peace: The Role of Ethics, Law, and Policy

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On May 3, the RPP Colloquium dinner series hosted by Religions and the Practice of Peace (RPP) will feature lifelong peace advocate Benjamin B. Ferencz, JD '43 Harvard Law School (HLS), the lead prosecutor and last living prosecutor of the Nüremberg...

Video: The Liturgy of Home: Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams, the 2017–18 Writer-in-Residence at Harvard Divinity School, delivers the 2018 Ingersoll Lecture. She has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A...

Video: Beyond Militarization

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At a time when the White House proposes to increase military spending, what role can religious communities play today in resisting war and militarism and working for social and economic justice? Speaker David Cortright, Director of Policy Studies and the...