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Professor Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America delivered the 2019 Convocation address “Toni Morrison Stories: Goodness and Mercy and Mexico.” FULL TRANSCRIPT: [MUSIC PLAYING] [APPLAUSE] RAMONA PETERS: [SPEAKING...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, HDS student Bo Clay chats with E. J. Dionne, renowned journalist and William H. Bloomberg Visiting Professor at HDS, about...

In 1990, Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan had no idea that he would one day be a divinity school student, let alone that he would find his calling bridging the worlds of spirituality and psychiatry as a multifaith hospital chaplain.

This presentation reviewed a series of studies investigating the effects of psilocybin administered to carefully screened and psychologically prepared volunteers who were encouraged to close their eyes and direct their attention inwards. Under such...

Members of the Faculty of Divinity are expressing doubts about the prospect of a U.S. military strike in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's reported use of chemical weapons on the country's civilian population. Ahmed Ragab, William Graham, and...

When HDS Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura Nasrallah created the School's first massive open online course (MOOC) for the edX platform, she didn't think much about how many people would register. When she did, her expectations were...

In late January 2020, Nigerians reacted to U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement that Nigeria would be added to the administration's controversial visa and travel bans list. In a statement, the Association for Credible Leadership in Nigeria (ACLN)...

Writing is freedom for Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, MTS ’01: freedom from the life-threatening allergies and respiratory problems that have plagued her since she was a child; freedom from the prejudice and misunderstanding she experienced growing up...

Steven Simon’s warning in the January 4, 2000, edition of the New York Times was like cold water in the face of Americans still bleary-eyed from partying like it was 1999. Simon, fresh from a counterterrorism assignment in the Clinton White House, and his...

Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and associate dean for faculty and academic affairs, discusses her recent publication, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. Listen iTunes SoundCloud

Professor Werner de Saeger, MTS ’11, is a theologian and legal scholar and teaches at the University of Cambridge and PXL University of Applied Sciences in Belgium. ♦♦♦ As I walked out of the Sorbonne library on Monday evening, April 15, just before 7 pm...

"This is abstracting the relationships that are built through prayer. It’s abstracting just the petitionary from all these other kinds of Christian prayers, which just makes it a less rich experience as part of a community and a less rich prayer life,"...