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Dean David N. Hempton offers insight into the history of the Methodist faith, of which Hillary Clinton is a follower.

“Putting the Bible or placing American history within the Bible, or suggesting the U.S. is a source of revelation, is seen by many evangelicals as a kind of heresy,” said HDS Professor Catherine Brekus.

Professor Frank Clooney, director of the Center for the Study of World Religion, writes about the outcome of the recent presidential election and says that Jesus teaches us to stand firm in times of crisis.

Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, cites Martin Luther King and Dostoyevsky in assessing the changes across the American and global landscapes following the presidential election.

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, this year’s Dudleian Lecture will feature a presentation on the movement’s connection to modernity. Paul C.H. Lim, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and Associate Professor of Religious...

Anne Marie Hunter, MDiv '86, director of Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 12, 2018. ♦♦♦ This morning’s reading features...

The following essay was written by the Founding Students of The HDS Responsible Organization Initiative. On June 5, 2020, Jamie Dimon was photographed kneeling in front of a local bank alongside branch employees, posed in solidarity with the Black Lives...

The course of my entire adult life changed on a single day in October 2015, when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I was then an academic sojourner, dislodged into a temporality of ever-changing...

It’s finally the time of year for sun, sand, hammocks, and reading lists. Members of the HDS community shared what they’ll be reading this summer—for work and for pleasure. Simran Jeet Singh, MTS ’08, postdoctoral fellow at New York University, columnist...

Martin Luther did more than just serve as a catalyst for the Reformation. By nailing his 95 theses to the door of a Wittenberg, Germany, church in 1517, he became the world's first mass media figure and launched a new form of theological writing, argues...

Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies Matthew L. Potts was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving for the Graduating Class on May 27, 2015. Below are his remarks, as prepared for delivery: It's a great honor to stand in...

The following words are an address to HDS's graduating class of 2006, presented at the Commencement Worship Service in the Memorial Church on June 7, 2006, by Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies. Her text was...