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Tony Amoury Alkhoury, MDiv '19, was selected by his student colleagues as the class speaker for HDS Commencement 2019. The following remarks were delivered by Alkhoury at the Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 30. The Arabic version can be found by...

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...

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...

"Taking the HDS course 'Change, Adversity and Spiritual Resilience' opened my eyes to the extent of the spiritual crisis that people are walking through whenever they are undergoing change, whether positive or negative," says Keona Wynne, PhD candidate at...

Rosalind I.J. Hackett, Trelawney Grenfell-Muir, Melissa W. Bartholomew, and Anila Daulatzai discuss the role of religious and spiritual resources in women's multifaceted contributions to sustainable peace and the challenges and promise of women's...

E. J. Dionne’s early passion for language grew out of the debates and books that filled his Fall River home. His writing grew out of his love for reading. A 1973 graduate of Harvard, where he wrote for The Crimson, Dionne covered politics for 14 years for...

On April 15, 2014, members of the jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school in northern Nigeria and threatened to " sell them in the market, by Allah, in an effort to end Western education." Nations around the world condemned...

For Steven Jungkeit, balance is key: balance of his twin vocations as a Congregationalist minister and a professor of critical theory and ethics at Harvard Divinity School. Bringing these two elements together has produced some interesting results, such...

Katherine Collins, MTS '11, is a professional investor who's managed billions of dollars of assets. Her new book, The Nature of Investing, lays out the nature-inspired principles she puts into practice today as head of her own research firm. She spoke...

Damaris S. Parsitau, 2018-19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture “The Kingdom of Holy Women: Pentecostalism, Sex and Women’s Bodies in an African Church,” which is based on five years of ethnographic research carried out at the...

HDS Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West delivered the 2017 Convocation address "Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, Prophetic Fightback," on August 29, 2017. You can read a recap of the Convocation ceremony and Professor West's...

“I had not intended to go on into a ministry. I really had intended to take a year out and go back into foreign service, but after I had been there for about six months studying, I knew that this was the place where I wanted to be. I felt my calling was...