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Test your knowledge of some of the lesser known aspects of these two fall holidays. For more information and background on Halloween, see our interview with HDS Professor Kimberley Patton. For more about Día de los Muertos, including a special exhibit at...

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. Memorable...

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. Reflection and...

HDS faculty and friends remembered Professor Anne E. Monius during a memorial service on October 11, 2019. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, passed away on August 3, 2019. FULL TRANSCRIPT: [INDIAN MUSIC PLAYING] Good...

As the race for the White House enters the final stretch, the recently chosen GOP and Democratic Party picks for vice president are introducing themselves to the nation. In speeches and political messaging over the last two weeks, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence...

For Marianne Williamson, politics is not only personal, it is spiritual. The best-selling author of such self-help books as A Return to Love and The Healing of America not only believes in this connection, she stresses that ignoring—or, worse, severing—it...

Paula Smith was 33 years old the first time she encountered a female minister. That minister was the Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, Chaplain of Brown University, who happens to be an alumna of Harvard Divinity School. The two became friends after Smith...

HDS Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West delivered the 2017 Convocation address titled "Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, Prophetic Fightback." His remarks can be read below. A video of the ceremony and a recap are available...

With the greens of summer beginning to die, autumn is upon us. In the otherworldly, golden light seen only in September and October, and most astonishingly in New England, we prepare to begin again. For every scholar—that's each of you, by the way—who was...

How is summer solstice celebrated in Iran? In Finland and other Nordic countries, why are fern flowers important to the Midsummer celebrations? Prep for the longest day of the year by testing your knowledge of summer solstice rituals! Text Version: Of the...

Artist and author Rachel Sussman shares her physical, intellectual, and spiritual journey around the world and through time-space. FULL TRANSCRIPT: [MUSIC PLAYING] All right, thank you so much. So good evening and welcome to the Center for the Study of...

On December 9, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its report on the interrogation techniques employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The committee found that the CIA...