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Modeling Ministry for a Multireligious World

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The HDS community is home to practitioners and scholars of dozens of different religions—and to those who have no formal religious affiliation at all. One is as likely to bump into a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka on campus as a Unitarian Universalist from...

'My Hope Is That I Can Share My Passion'

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Rachelle Sam, who graduated from Harvard Divinity School on May 27 with a master of divinity degree, came to HDS, like many of her classmates, with a wide range of interests. Through the flexibility of the master of divinity degree curriculum, including...

Embracing Varieties of Religious Experience

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In 1816, when Harvard Divinity School was established, its founders aimed to ensure that “every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial, and unbiased investigation of Christian truth.” Two hundred years later, HDS has expanded its mission. With...

The Spirit of Social Justice

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Jared Oubre, MTS candidate, spent much of his summer in 2013 with children who live on the streets of Managua, Nicaragua. The recipient of a Dana McLean Greeley International Internship from HDS's Center for the Study of World Religions, Oubre says he...

Alumni/ae Council Calls for Gomes Nominations

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The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) today announced the opening of the nomination process for the 2015 cohort of recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors. Inaugurated in 2013 and given annually, the award honors a small group of graduates...

Beyond Nations, Beyond Continents, to a New World

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Robert Lawson Slater had seen the world at its worst. After serving as a medical orderly in World War I, Slater, a British Army chaplain, found himself caught in the middle of the Japanese invasion of Burma during World War II. After helping to evacuate...

Graduate Profile: Reem Shaikh, MTS '21

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HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. Words of...

Holy Memories of the Faith, Lived Anew, Together

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Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, offers a reflection for Holy Week. This week Christians across the world mark the holiest days of the Christian calendar: Holy (Maundy) Thursday, Good Friday...

Tibetan Artist Creates 'Wheel of Life'

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The Venerable Losang Samten’s hands had to be steady as a surgeon’s as he engaged in the painstaking process of creating a “Wheel of Life” sand mandala during a week-long residency recently at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard...

Reflections on Human Rights in Honduras After the Coup

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For a week in late January 2010, five Harvard Divinity School students witnessed firsthand the impact of human rights abuses suffered by many Hondurans after the 2009 coup, in which the former Honduran president, Manuel Zelya, was ousted by the country's...

Orientalism and Religion Colloquium

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The Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS regularly hosts public lectures, book events, and occasional conversations, such as those included in the "Religion in the News" lunch series. But also of great importance to the Center's mission are the...