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The Rev. Daniel A. Smith, MDiv '99, Senior Minister at First Church in Cambridge, and Lecturer on Ministry Studies (HDS), delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on December 3, 2019.

In July, Puerto Rican protestors took to the streets, and so did Allison Rosen. The third-year master of divinity (MDiv) candidate planned to spend her summer doing field education in Puerto Rico working with El Departamento de la Comida (The Food...

Noah Van Niel is strong. During his time as an undergraduate, Van Niel played for the Harvard Crimson football team throwing blocks as a 250-pound fullback. He's also strong in voice, having performed and studied as an operatic tenor at the Academy of...

Matthew L. Potts has a really long commute to work. Since 2013, when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School, Potts has been driving over 75 miles from Falmouth, Massachusetts—where he lives with his family and...

When I told colleagues at Oxfam that I needed time off to go to Harvard Divinity School, they responded with raised eyebrows. After all, I'm a senior executive in a large global organization that rarely, if ever, talks about religion and spirituality...

Roberto Mata, a ThD candidate at HDS, has been selected to receive a 2014 Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE) Fellowship for Latino/a, Asian, and First Nations Doctoral Students. As an FTE Doctoral Fellow, Mata will receive a living stipend of up to...

When Matthew Potts, Professor of Religion and Ministry Studies, and Terry Tempest Williams, Harvard Divinity School’s 2017-18 writer-in-residence, both participated in a panel last fall, they had no idea it would lead to co-teaching a class together. The...

Harvard Divinity School today announced a $25 million gift from artist and philanthropist Susan Shallcross Swartz and her husband, investor James R. Swartz, AB '64. The gift—the largest in the School’s 200-year history—will enable HDS to move forward on...

Bitter budget fights. Political battles over same-sex marriage. Religious radio-show and television hosts demonizing opponents. Heated debates on gun control in the face of massacres. Why are Americans so polarized on so many issues, and what can be done...

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton commemorated the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks today with a visit to New York City, where he challenged students at one of the nation's elite independent schools to "better understand both the...

Besides epidemics, wars, violence, and starvation, there is another source of disaster that is often overlooked: "a lack of love." So said His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, to a capacity crowd at Harvard's Memorial Church on...

We have all been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As you know by now, HDS and Harvard are transitioning to online classes in order to minimize the possibility of transmission. We take this unprecedented step because the health and well-being of everyone...