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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...

On July 1, Professor of Early Christian Thought Charles Stang became the seventh director of Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, succeeding Parkman Professor of Divinity Francis X. Clooney, S.J. A scholar of asceticism...

The 2015 recipients of Harvard Divinity School's Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors include a diplomat, a chaplain, an activist, an advisor, and a scholar. While these individuals—and their professions—may seem disparate, Dean David N. Hempton says...

Earlier this summer, Pope Francis released his second Papal Encyclical, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home. The encyclical focuses on the relationship between humans and the earth, and it has been understood by many as a powerful commentary on...

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...

HDS is known to take interfaith dialogue very seriously. But what happens when that dialogue leaves the classroom? How does it work in the context of the “real world”—where faith is lived in addition to studied—and where trauma is a matter of experience...

Soon after the 2004 presidential election, HDS professor Amy Hollywood was asked to participate in a panel discussion on the outcome of the voting. Hollywood remembers, "All I did was to present a hypothesis that I'd read in a smart web newsletter...

Harvard Divinity School celebrates and honors the distinguished career of Professor Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, who, in July 2021, retired from full-time teaching at HDS and now serves as the Charles Chauncey Stillman Research Professor of Roman Catholic...

Jeremy Sher was at a dead end. A 1999 MIT graduate with a degree in mathematics, Sher had a flourishing career in technology, but his heart wasn't in it. He felt called to life as a rabbi but couldn't attend traditional schools that prohibit interfaith...

Eliza Griswold has traveled the world researching conflicts. Over the summer, The New York Times Magazine published her article " Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East?" For her first book, The Tenth Parallel, she spent years traveling in...

HDS Dean David N. Hempton launched the Campaign for Harvard Divinity School on April 4, 2014, with an address that laid out a bold vision that builds on the School's tradition of religious education, service, and scholarly excellence. What follows is the...

When I told colleagues at Oxfam that I needed time off to go to Harvard Divinity School, they responded with raised eyebrows. After all, I'm a senior executive in a large global organization that rarely, if ever, talks about religion and spirituality...