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Early in September of 2001, Milia Islam was already anticipating a tough transition in coming to a big northeastern city such as Boston after having lived most of her life in a small Missouri town (Fulton, population 10,000), and in undertaking a Harvard...

Carlyle Stewart, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 5, 2019.

Though Taylor Petrey did his doctoral work on ancient Christian debates about the resurrection, this last year he found himself teaching a course at HDS on the 200-year-old tradition of Mormonism—a newcomer, by the standards of world religions. Petrey...

William A. Graham steps down as Dean of Harvard Divinity School at the end of the 2011–12 academic year. After a year's leave in 2012–13, he will return to teaching as a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. HDS MDiv candidate Matt Bieber...

When HDS Professor Andrew Teeter was in college, he uncovered a fascination with the Hebrew Bible. He poured himself into his study of ancient Greek and Hebrew, even taking a summer job working the graveyard shift so he could resuscitate dead languages...

"Keep it real!" Sometimes declared as a warning and other times said in jest, this expression came up repeatedly during the 2000 Summer Leadership Institute (SLI), which brought 45 clergy, lay leaders, and community developers to Harvard from across the...

In the spring of 2013, Cary Dabney found an envelope from Harvard Divinity School in his mailbox. The first member of his family to attend college, Dabney prepared himself for disappointment. He turned to his son—one of his six children—and joked that he...

Before he became an award-winning poet and Episcopal priest, Spencer Reece, MTS ’90, attended Harvard Divinity School. He took classes on Flannery O’Connor, the Bible, and the nineteenth-century Transcendentalist writer, poet, and HDS student Ralph Waldo...

Kent French, MDiv '07 and Senior Pastor at The United Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 2, 2019. ♦♦♦

Dudley Rose is associate dean for ministry studies and lecturer on ministry. On January 27, 2019, he delivered the sermon during Sunday Services at Memorial Church. Below are his remarks. ♦♦♦

The HDS community began its 2005-06 academic year on Monday, September 19, with a Convocation address by Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer in American Religious History, at Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall...

For a week in late January 2010, five Harvard Divinity School students witnessed firsthand the impact of human rights abuses suffered by many Hondurans after the 2009 coup, in which the former Honduran president, Manuel Zelya, was ousted by the country's...