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Zachary Davis, MTS ’19, a producer at HarvardX and host of the podcast “ Ministry of Ideas,” would like to change how we understand religion’s place in the twenty-first century. An initiative of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School,...

This lecture focused on the Hindu view of life from the margins. While the “Hindu margin” is a fairly large heterogeneous group, this lecture laid the lens on the third gender, Kinnars (pejorative term hijṛā) and spiritual partners, categorized as...

HDS Professor Dan McKanan delivered a presentation on his latest book, Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition, on March 5. Discussants of the book were Timothy McCarthy, Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy...

Stephanie Paulsell has been appointed Associate Dean for Ministerial Studies and Senior Lecturer on Ministry, effective July 1, 2003. She replaces Nancy Richardson, who is beginning a phased retirement but will continue to teach at HDS. "We are very...

HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. Message of...

In the fall of 1911, the newly formed Andover-Harvard Theological Library was opened, combining the libraries of Andover Theological Seminary and Harvard Divinity School. One hundred years of acquisitions and service was commemorated in October...

As students face new financial pressures, HDS marshals new resources to meet the challenge. Space is sacred to Jarred Batchelor Hamilton. At HDS, the Master of Divinity candidate studies places that enable people to connect with one another and with the...

Ousmane Oumar Kane delivered the inaugural Prince Alwaleed bin Talal lecture on March 6, 2014, and was titled "From Medieval Sankore to Modern Say: Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa in Historical and Comparative Perspective." Kane is...

The following words are an address to HDS's graduating class of 2006, presented at the Commencement Worship Service in the Memorial Church on June 7, 2006, by Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies. Her text was...

HDS Convocation was held Thursday, August 30, 2012, on the Campus Green. New Dean David N. Hempton drew on the memory of violence he witnessed in Northern Ireland to offer hopeful visions for the future. Kevin J. Madigan, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical...

On a warm October afternoon, 50 students, faculty, and staff members from the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) convened at the HDS Community Garden, located on an 800-square-foot plot behind the Center for the Study of World Religions. The gathering featured...

Nearly a hundred alumni and friends flocked to the HDS campus on Friday, April 5, for Leadership Day. Attendees heard from University President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean David Hempton on the role of the study of religion at Harvard; cheered as Dean's...