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The theologian and historian Daniel Patrick McKanan has been named the inaugural incumbent of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Chair of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. McKanan, who has taught at the College of Saint Benedict...

The Center for the Study of Values in Public Life has named four visiting fellows for the 2000-2001 academic year; they are Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Mary Hunt, Bill McKibben, and Julie Nelson. The Women’s Studies in Religion Program has named five such...

Harvard Divinity School's membership in the Hispanic Theological Initiative Consortium (HTIC) may be young, but it is already having tremendous impact as HDS's first HTIC fellow, Roberto Mata, graduated last month. Mata received a master of divinity...

On May 30, Anna Carlstone will graduate from Harvard Divinity School with a master of theological studies degree. Below, she discusses the ways in which her experiences at HDS have helped shape her life; why new students should use their summers wisely...

The bombs went off about an hour after Chris Lisee, MTS '13, finished the 2013 Boston Marathon; after his parents, aunt, and fiancée—all up from New Jersey to cheer him on—wrapped him in their arms and a foil blanket to keep him warm; after his legs...

With every human society growing more religiously and culturally pluralistic, the study of world religions has never been more crucial to stability, progress, and peace. This was the theme of presentations given at the annual Leadership Day celebration at...

In July 2013, HDS Dean David N. Hempton received an honorary doctorate of literature from Queen's University Belfast, his undergraduate alma mater, where he later returned as a lecturer in modern history. In front of Queen's faculty, staff, and students...

“I think it’s part of a larger American tendency, since the Revolution, to portray the Bible as being an essentially republican text, or a democratic text,” said HDS Professor Catherine Brekus.

"At this moment, the country stands divided by class fissures and racial fault lines in the middle of a pandemic, and nevertheless nearly 100 million people cast ballots in the midst of 9 million coronavirus cases and 230,000 coronavirus fatalities. This...

Michael D. Jackson has been Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School since 2005. The author of numerous books of anthropology, including the prizewinning Paths Toward a Clearing, At Home in the World, and The Politics...

"I think 'Make America Great Again' is broader than just an evangelical attitude. But it is, in many ways, tailor-made for them—they hear that and they absolutely hear, 'We need to make America Christian, the way it used to be when it was run by White...

Donald Trump's " inwardly looking nativism clashes with the international instincts of the state's predominate faith," writes Professor David Holland.