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Monday, August 31, was an auspicious day at Harvard Divinity School. It was not only our Convocation, the formal opening of the new academic year, but also, at the start of 2015-16, a step closer to the actual bicentennial of the School. It was also an...

In July 2000, when the Right Rev. Vashti McKenzie was elected the first female bishop in the 213-year history of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, her reaction made national headlines. "The stained-glass ceiling has been pierced and broken,"...

The recipients of the annual Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors are typically people who have changed the world: the minister who helps form an international nonprofit that enables formerly enslaved women and girls to reclaim their lives; the diplomat...

On hand to hear from Religious Literacy Project director Diane Moore and her team were teachers from 15 high schools in and around Chicago.

On November 6, 2013, HDS hosted its annual Theological Education Day. A series of panel discussions took place, including this one about the degree programs offered at HDS.

The Alumni/Alumnae Council brought the second installment of the 2014-15 Divinity Dialogues speaker series to the West Coast. Speakers Sejal H. Patel, MTS '14, and Suzanne Skees, MTS '92, addressed a theme of great importance to ourselves, our communities...

Melissa Bartholomew fosters diversity, inclusion, and belonging at HDS Melissa Wood Bartholomew, MDiv ’15, has been here before—the horrifying event, the protests, the renewed pledges, soon forgotten, to combat racism. While she has concerns about whether...

It is often said that history's most distinguished entertainers were "born in the theater," and that world-class athletes like Mickey Mantle and Tiger Woods grew up with bat or club in hand. For Cheryl J. Sanders, MDiv '80, ThD '85, Professor of Christian...

In the lead-up to the midterm elections, some pundits predicted success for the Democrats based on the decline of white mainline evangelicals, a critical segment of Republican voters for more than three decades. When the dust cleared on Tuesday night...

Alumni/Alumnae Council Chairperson Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv ’10, moderated a discussion with this year's Gomes Honorees about their time at HDS, their views on the importance of School, and their work in the world. The panel was part of HDS's...

It happened by chance. Liz Steinhauser, MDiv '96, was going for an afternoon walk in Boston's South End nearly 10 years ago when she saw Tim Crellin, also MDiv '96, standing on the sidewalk outside St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, where Crellin was (and...

HDS Professor Laura Nasrallah knows Harvard University and Princeton University well. Having earned degrees at both (AB ’91 at Princeton, MDiv ‘95, ThD ‘02 at Harvard) the Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity is familiar with the vast...