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As the director of the First Church Shelter in Cambridge, Jim Stewart, MDiv '83, is a jack-of-all-trades. His work one particular day involved cubing and marinating beef, cutting and cooking potatoes, ordering supplies, and—as he often does—trying to help...

A group of Boston community leaders recently addressed a large audience at Harvard Divinity School’s Religions and the Practice of Peace (RPP) Colloquium, in an event focused on the inspirational work being done in the city’s African American communities...

Eerie puffs of smoke, loud bangs, screaming people, bloodied bodies, and debris-strewn sidewalks, followed almost immediately by remarkable acts of courage and compassion. This was Boston on Marathon Monday, April 15. I was reminded of another city and...

Katherine Collins, MTS '11, was a rising star at Fidelity Management & Research Company, one of the country's leading investment firms. During her 18-year career at the company, she managed diversified mutual funds with assets of over $4 billion and was...

Karen Tse, MDiv '00, walked into a prison in the African nation of Burundi and found children: an eight-year-old boy tossed into jail for stealing a mobile phone; twelve-year-old girls imprisoned for "sex crimes"; a two-year old girl who had spent most of...

Karen Tse, MDiv '00, walked into a prison in the African nation of Burundi and found children: an 8-year-old boy tossed into jail for stealing a mobile phone; 12-year-old girls imprisoned for "sex crimes"; a 2-year old girl who had spent most of her short...

Harvard University is honored to welcome Professor Eduardo Matos Moctezuma on April 10, 2018 to deliver the lecture, “ Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Discovers Himself: Excavations of the Great Aztec Temple,” at 6 pm, at the Geological Lecture Hall (24 Oxford...

The Rev. Dudley C. Rose, associate dean for ministry studies at HDS, delivered the following talk to students at the first meeting of "Introduction to Ministry Studies," a course he co-teaches with Professor Stephanie Paulsell. In James Michener's novel...

Celebrated by Italian immigrants in the United States since 1792, Columbus Day became a federal holiday in 1937 to commemorate the "arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas." The explorer’s reputation has darkened in recent years as scholars have...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus Harvey Cox about his fall 2017 class “Pope Francis: His ‘Theology of the...

I first met Peter Gomes when I was a rookie faculty member. He was assigned to me as an advisee upon his arrival as a first-year student at HDS in 1965. Maybe someone thought we would be a suitable match since we were both Baptists—a tribe not well...

Pope Francis, who has inspired both affection and controversy with recent remarks on homosexuality and atheism, made headlines again this week. In an interview with the editor of the leading Jesuit journal in Rome, the Pope criticized the Catholic Church...