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HDS's Ministry Innovation Fellows are sponsoring the Nuns and Nones project, which seeks to bring these two groups together in order to explore new forms of community life, help millennials see models for sustainable activism and create an...

If ministry is a call, Willie Bodrick II had a clear response for most of his life: No. "People say you run to your calling, but I ran from mine," Bodrick says. "Everyone told me all my life, 'You ought to be a preacher.' I never really felt like I was...

Ministry Innovation Fellows Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston discuss their work to understand where millennial Americans go to find community and how leaders can expand the spiritual offerings of traditional churches.

HDS alum and Ministry Innovation Fellow Casper ter Kuile discusses his new book, which explores how we can find meaning and well-being in our daily rituals (sitting down for dinner with family, morning yoga) and in adopting new ones.

Harvard Divinity School today announced the appointment of the first Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, a new chair that will be at the center of the School's work to educate the religious leaders of the future. Dean...

"The classroom atmosphere is vibrant, the professors are some of the best in the world, and the field education experience is transformative." Upali Sramon, a 2013–14 Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Scholar with the Buddhist Ministry Program, discusses...

On a bright morning in September, as the humidity lingered and autumn struggled to find its grip, a small classroom on the second floor of Divinity Hall was buzzing with chatter and anxious movement. Some 40 students were crammed into room meant for 17...

Under a tent on the HDS Campus Green, behind Andover Hall, members of the HDS community gathered on August 29, 2013, to welcome a new academic year. Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies, delivered the ceremony's...

Harry Lyn Huff, HDS's music director and lecturer on ministry, passed away on November 3.

As part of the ministry colloquium series Mohammad Darawshe speaks about the current challenges of and opportunities for building a shared society in Israel. He is the director of planning, equality and shared society at Givat Haviva, the Center for...

The Rev. Dudley C. Rose, associate dean for ministry studies at HDS, delivered the following talk to students at the first meeting of "Introduction to Ministry Studies," a course he co-teaches with Professor Stephanie Paulsell. In James Michener's novel...

Originally from the Atlanta area, Christopher Hope is one of many Harvard Divinity School students with a passion for social justice and ministry. Below, the second-year master of divinity student at HDS describes growing up through economic difficulties...