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"When you see the rallies and the protests, listen past the words and look past the signs." The following reflection is by Irene Routte, MTS '14, who helped organize a group of HDS students and alumni who traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, this past summer...

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...

Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93, says that he felt "slightly ridiculous" in 1990 when, at the age of 50, he enrolled in Harvard Divinity School's master of theological studies program. His friends and colleagues at home in France didn't offer him...

Jacob Olupona, HDS Professor of African Religious Traditions, has won the 2018 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. In announcing the award, Alice Hunt, executive director of the American Academy of Religion, noted that “the...

Tajay Bongsa has seen conflict firsthand. He experienced it growing up in an indigenous community in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, he saw its consequences in Sri Lanka, and he heard it from the victims he visited in former war zones there...

The city of Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in protest after the August 9 fatal shooting of an unarmed African American teenager by a police officer. The event—and the response of city and state authorities—inspired a national debate about race, law...

The chaplain chosen to offer the opening prayer during Harvard's 2016 Commencement Morning Exercises was HDS faculty member Cheryl Giles. Giles, Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling, delivered the graduation prayer...

Much has been written about the Northern Ireland peace process, particularly on securing the peace. However, as Senator George Mitchell commented in relation to the Good Friday agreement, “If you think getting this agreement was difficult, implementing it...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 90 this year. While his name and his contribution to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement are revered, some wonder if Dr. King’s legacy is in jeopardy amid a resurgence of racism, xenophobia, and hate...

Zachary Davis, founder and host of the “ Ministry of Ideas” podcast, and Diane L. Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School, have announced a partnership to bring contemporary issues in religion, philosophy, and history...

How can academic institutions address the fallout from acts of terror, such as the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris? Should they? During a recent HDS forum, "Violence, Freedom of Expression and Justice," panelists raised questions about free speech...

Hippie culture left a lasting impression on the Mid-West of the United States. Historians tend to portray the Haight Ashbury of San Francisco and the East Village of Manhattan as America’s foremost psychedelic hotspots, but it was in the college town of...