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HDS professor Ahmed Ragab was a medical student at Cairo University in the early 2000s when he first walked into Egypt's 700-year-old Mansuri Hospital. A 1992 earthquake that had left thousands wounded or dead also forced the closure of Mansuri, an...

In February of 1926, Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard-education historian, had a very specific goal in mind when he established what was then called Negro History Week. He hoped, as time went along, that Black history would be recognized as so entrenched in...

by Colleen Walsh, Harvard Gazette Harvard Divinity School Dean David Hempton knows too well the cost of religious conflict. As a college student in Belfast in the 1970s, he witnessed the 'tragedies of violence' that marked 'The Troubles' between the...

I write at perhaps the most challenging moment of our lifetimes, as our society reels from global pandemic, economic collapse, and social unrest. We have all been affected. Many in the HDS community are on the front lines as activists, caregivers, and...

The Center for the Study of Values in Public Life has named four visiting fellows for the 2000-2001 academic year; they are Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Mary Hunt, Bill McKibben, and Julie Nelson. The Women’s Studies in Religion Program has named five such...

At first glance, it might appear that the five research associates with the Women's Studies in Religion Program at HDS this year don't have much in common—other than the fact that they're all women. To an extent probably greater than ever before, these...

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...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council established the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors in 2013 to celebrate the outstanding contributions that HDS alumni make to their fields, and to society, across the broad spectrum of professions and vocations that HDS...

The Rev. Dr. Gary Mason and Dean David N. Hempton will speak on “ The Role of Reconciliation, Memory, and Theology in Shaping the Public Stage ” on Wednesday, February 27, at 2 pm, on the HDS campus. RSVP kindly requested . When we think of the bitter...

Tajay Bongsa has seen conflict firsthand. He experienced it growing up in an indigenous community in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, he saw its consequences in Sri Lanka, and he heard it from the victims he visited in former war zones there...

“Mouths don’t empty themselves unless ears are sympathetic and knowing,” wrote the twentieth-century anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston in Mules and Men, her collection of African American oral histories, sermons, songs, and folk tales...

Earlier this month, I was one of six Harvard Divinity School students sitting in the United Nations’ Security Council chamber listening to delegates from countries around the world talk about how faith and religion were both causes and solutions to peace...