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"The book (of Revelation) is full of references to plagues and natural catastrophes, earthquakes, floods. It's very easy to connect things one finds in the Bible with things that are happening today," said Professor Giovanni Bazzana.

By bringing together scholars from across Harvard, this panel discussed the importance of a critical, nuanced, and interdisciplinary understanding of refugee, asylum, and immigrant issues, while highlighting activist efforts. Learn more about the event...

HDS students Mary Balkon, Aric Flemming, and Jade Sylvan deliver sermons for the Billings Preaching Prize Competition during Noon Service on April 10, 2019. The competition winner was Jade Sylvan. In addition, Isaac Martinez, the Massachusetts Bible...

Harvard Divinity School Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West and Dartmouth College Professor Susannah Heschel, MTS '76, discuss the question: are there moral lessons for citizens and nations following last week's inauguration?

Harvard Divinity School Professor Harvey Cox delivers the talk, "Whatever Happened to Secularization?" during HDS's bicentennial celebration and alumni reunion. Listen

For Dean David Hempton and his wife, Louanne, the short film Remains by Northern Ireland artist Willie Doherty spoke to a reality they are all too familiar with. Part of the Harvard Art Museums exhibit Crossing Lines, Constructing Homes, the film gives...

Those who cherish the nation’s tradition of religious freedom should be alarmed by President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and all refugees, two Harvard Divinity School faculty members warned.

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

The Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration Conference gathers scholars of various disciplines, activists, organizers, and formerly incarcerated persons and places them in conversation with each other. This conference is a critical study of carceral...

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...

This talk contradicts the longstanding reading of Emerson as invested in idealism and instead charts his obsession with matter both organic and inorganic, organized and unorganized. By attending to his interest in sciences of life, Branka Arsić...

How do you measure and govern for happiness? On April 13, 2019, an international conference of academics, practitioners, politicians, corporate leaders and spiritual leaders at the Harvard Divinity School sought answers to the question of universal...