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Helping to Heal

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Two days after celebrating a gold medal victory with the U.S. women's ice hockey team on the ice at the Canada Cup in Vancouver in September 2009, Cornelia Cannon Holden, MDiv '03, found herself back on the HDS campus—a place that, on the surface, seems...

Cornel West: There Is Joy in Struggle

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What an honor to be here! What a privilege, what a blessing to salute the Class of 2019, Harvard Divinity School. The first thing we want to do is to acknowledge that we are who we are because somebody loved us. Let’s give it up for Mom, let’s give it up...

To Listen the Way God Listens

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Sometimes the Rev. Katherine Buechner Arthaud, MDiv ’86, wonders if she’s making a difference. The crowd in the pews on Sundays can be small in the rural Vermont churches she serves. She’s not sure that her sermons always resonate with parishioners. A...

HDS Researcher Uncovers a Long-lost Rebellious Evangelicalism

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Kimberly Blockett was a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin when her thesis director, Nellie McKay, encouraged her to read a spiritual narrative from 1846 written by Zilpha Elaw, a free black woman who travelled up and down the East Coast of the...

Podcast: Why Hate Crimes Are on the Rise

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Hate crimes committed on the basis of religious identity have surged 23 percent, the biggest annual increase since 9/11. And while many have placed blame at the foot of political leaders and specifically President Trump for emboldening anti-Semites and...

Kazmi Reaches Out

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When Salma Kazmi got to her job at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) on the morning of September 11, 2001, she found a telephone message from her boss. “Something terrible has happened,” it said. “Please call me immediately.” After she...

The World's Biggest Ever Bible Course

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When HDS Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura Nasrallah created the School's first massive open online course (MOOC) for the edX platform, she didn't think much about how many people would register. When she did, her expectations were...

A Mighty Thing

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Charles Adams knew he wanted to be a preacher. He didn’t know if he was old enough for the pulpit, though, so he asked his mom. He wasn’t happy with the answer. “I asked my mother when we came out of church one day, ‘How old am I?’ ” he remembers. “She...