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Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, typically involves standing for hours with a hungry belly and a parched throat. These bodily deprivations underscore the biblical commandment to afflict our souls—an affliction that may engender liberation. Elliot...

We are living in times of stridency. Those most vehement and fixed in their passions and opinions seem to be able to use our manifold media outlets to their own advantage, against whomever they disagree with. One is reminded of Yeats's lament: Things fall...

HDS Dean David N. Hempton is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe, North America, and beyond. On September 21, 2016, he spoke at the Morning Prayers service in Holden Chapel, Harvard...

It was the mid-1970s and, after one year at Harvard Divinity School, Margaret Rose still had not found her calling. She had a passion for theology and for social justice, but wasn’t convinced that a career as a religious leader was for her, so she went...

Despite malaria remaining a major disease, infecting more than 200 million people and killing nearly 500,000 a year, such great progress was made against it that the World Health Organization (WHO) recently set a global target for eliminating the illness...

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...

Rabbi Sally Finestone is the denominational counselor to Jewish students at Harvard Divinity School and Rabbi and education director at Congregation Or Atid in Wayland, Massachusetts. Below is a sermon for the evening of Kol Nidrei, which marks the...

During the National Prayer Breakfast on February 2, President Donald Trump discussed removing the Johnson Amendment. The amendment restricts political speech by tax-exempt churches. HDS Associate Dean for Ministry Studies Dudley Rose discussed how Trump’s...

I opened up my Facebook page Tuesday morning—a practice I usually don't indulge in at first wake. Typically, before the news of the outside world outside engages my mind and spirit, I arise and move into devotional and scripture reading, walk/run atop the...

Leymah Gbowee won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her efforts that led to ending the Liberian civil war. On Thursday, October 6, she will come to HDS to discuss her experiences and insights into peacebuilding as part of the Religions and the Practice of...

What would it look like to practice radical forgiveness? Zachary Davis, second-year MTS candidate, explores this issue in the sermon below, which he delivered Sept. 27 at Noon Service, hosted by the HDS Latter-day Saint Student Association. ♦♦♦ On October...

Three Harvard Divinity School professors are among the 40 participants interviewed in Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith, a two-hour documentary making its Boston prime-time television debut on WGBH-TV Tuesday, April 2 from 9 to 11 PM (it will also...