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Each year, Harambee: Students of African Descent at HDS organizes a series of special events to commemorate Black History Month (BHM). This February, Harambee again offers several opportunities for those within the Harvard community, as well as our...

HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. How I've...

In Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the title character agonizes over a dreadful thought as he nears the end of his life: “What if my entire life, my entire conscious life, was not the real thing?” Scotty McLennan asks his students to ponder the...

Stephanie Spellers, MTS ’96, jumped enthusiastically into the culture wars raging on Wake Forest’s campus in the early 1990s. An African American woman at a southern school that had only recently begun to admit significant numbers of minority students...

HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. Words of...

Like many HDS alumni/alumnae who choose a different path than ordination, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS ’84, shares her classmates' commitment to ethics and values. Donahoe came to the Divinity School to delve deeply into philosophical and moral...

The education of progressive Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist ministers is literally embedded in Harvard Divinity School’s DNA. The legendary Rev. William Ellery Channing actually penned the 1815 appeal that went out in Harvard President Kirkland’s...

The final weeks of summer are upon us. Students and faculty will soon return to campus after more than a year away. Orientation starts in two weeks. The fall semester begins on September 1. Nevertheless, there are still more than a few days left to enjoy...

The city of Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in protest after the August 9 fatal shooting of an unarmed African American teenager by a police officer. The event—and the response of city and state authorities—inspired a national debate about race, law...

Rakesh Rajani, MTS ’91, grew up in the African nation of Tanzania. As a young man, he returned home from college during breaks and noticed an uptick in children living on the streets. Day after day he saw them harassed, even beaten. He vowed not to stay...

HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. How I've...

The chaplain chosen to offer the opening prayer during Harvard's 2016 Commencement Morning Exercises was HDS faculty member Cheryl Giles. Giles, Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling, delivered the graduation prayer...