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Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

In an equally emotional and inspirational conversation, a pair of HDS alumni recently shared stories of how they helped individuals, communities, and themselves navigate through dark times. Nancy Cahners, MTS '03, and Mel Kawakami, MDiv '74, ThM '87...

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

Azmera Hammouri-Davis, MTS candidate, attended the third annual Black Religion, Spirituality, and Culture Conference at HDS on February 28 and March 1, 2019. Below is her reflection following the conference. ♦♦♦ In a time where violence, hatred, racism...

This semester at Harvard Divinity School, Cheryl Giles is teaching “Spiritual Care and Counseling”—a title that could easily be applied to her entire professional life. Over the years, Giles has worked as a college chaplain, a clinical psychologist...

Kevin Cranston and the truth of pandemics Kevin Cranston, MDiv ’86, learned early on that viruses tell the truth. As a gay man coming of age during the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, he saw the ways that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) crossed...

KMarie Tejeda, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 19, 2019. ♦♦♦ Good Morning! Today, I want to share with you a letter written by the author Barry Adams. The message is titled Father...

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...

This fall semester, Professor Cheryl Giles joined a number of members of the HDS community in calling for a more conscious religious engagement with injustice. At an October panel discussion, “ Changing the World from the Inside Out: Multi-Faith...

Jennifer Hollis, MDiv '03, never intended to earn herself the peculiar title "Midwife of Death." After reading an article about music-thanatology before her senior year at Connecticut College, however, the prospect of learning how to prescriptively play...