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Charles Adams knew he wanted to be a preacher. He didn’t know if he was old enough for the pulpit, though, so he asked his mom. He wasn’t happy with the answer. “I asked my mother when we came out of church one day, ‘How old am I?’ ” he remembers. “She...

“I think it’s part of a larger American tendency, since the Revolution, to portray the Bible as being an essentially republican text, or a democratic text,” said HDS Professor Catherine Brekus.

"Biden is intent on taking his oath on the steps of the Capitol because he understands its symbolic power. He is determined to reclaim the Capitol from those who claimed, in the midst of erecting nooses and wreaking violence against the police, to be...

Duncan Gardner, MDiv ’14, is one of the growing number of alumni of the HDS Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI), the first program of its kind at a divinity school associated with a major research university. He tells the inmates in the Tennessee prison...

In December 1815, President John T. Kirkland, appealed for support of the “best and noblest cause, which human benevolence is permitted to advance”: the education of ministers at Harvard University. His letter to the School’s alumni described society’s...

A panel of HDS faculty launches the bicentennial of HDS by discussing the outcome of the 200-year history of the School: a multireligious divinity school. Audio

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

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...

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, offers a reflection for Holy Week. This week Christians across the world mark the holiest days of the Christian calendar: Holy (Maundy) Thursday, Good Friday...

HDS Professor Laura Nasrallah knows Harvard University and Princeton University well. Having earned degrees at both (AB ’91 at Princeton, MDiv ‘95, ThD ‘02 at Harvard) the Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity is familiar with the vast...

When Joshua Leach was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, he volunteered as area coordinator of an Amnesty International student group in Illinois. While serving in that role, one of his responsibilities included preparing a newsletter that was...

Sometimes a profession quietly chooses you, instead of the other way around. For Harvard Divinity School student Elizabeth Smith Leavitt, MDiv '09—originally bound for law school, after a challenging year as an English as a Second Language tutor through...