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As I entered my second semester as a master of divinity degree candidate at HDS, I looked forward to branching out and taking courses that were cross-listed with other Harvard schools and composed of students from different parts of Harvard. My favorite...

The scene is surreal. Trees, falling leaves, and tall grass—all red—appear set against a black sky. A monotone voice says “It’s OK to feel some fear, some discomfort.” This is a chapter in the new virtual reality app “ When We Die.” Dozens of people lined...

Vanessa Zoltan graduated from HDS with a master of divinity degree in 2015. She is currently a research assistant at HDS and, alongside fellow alum Casper ter Kuile, co-hosts the popular podcast “ Harry Potter and the Sacred Text .” She delivered the...

Lydia Bremer had an unusual and lofty aim in her first year as a Harvard Divinity School student. "I made it my goal my first year to try and study in as many of the libraries as possible, and I reached a pretty substantial sum of them," said the master...

Religious leaders from the HDS community share spiritual resources for hard times The COVID-19 pandemic both engenders and accentuates the greatest challenges of the human condition: loneliness, loss, suffering, and mortality. Confronted with these, the...

MTS candidate Steven Núñez writes below on the ongoing activities and efforts of the HDS Racial Justice and Healing Initiative. In the wake of the murder of Michael Brown in 2014, Melissa Bartholomew, MDiv ’15, and a group of HDS students, along with Rev...

When Karen Vickers and Albert Budney went with their high school senior class to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, they were impressed by its theme of "Peace through Understanding"—so much so that 25 years later, after the couple had married, the...

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...

At one time in the not-too-distant past, Mouhamadou Diagne seemed destined for a career in academia. He was enrolled as an MTS candidate at HDS in Religion, Ethics, and Politics, and was on course to pursue a PhD in education. But a chance encounter with...

Melissa Bartholomew, MDiv '15, was selected by her student colleagues as the class speaker for HDS Commencement 2015. The following remarks were delivered by Bartholomew at the Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 28. Like many of you, throughout my time here...

North Korea and South Korea have been in an official state of war for more than 60 years, which has led to, among other things, a massive Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and the separation of family members on both sides of the border for decades. Believing that...

Some people think that politics and art don’t mix. Impose a political message, they say, and art becomes contrived and manipulative. Bring too much art to politics and it becomes unserious and impractical. Rev. Erik Martinez Resly, MDiv ’12, is not one of...