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After reflecting on the formation of Harvard Divinity School in 1816, Harvard President Drew Faust looked out to the crowd of HDS faculty, students, staff, and friends gathered on the Campus Green and told them that their community not only embodies the...

Tom Stanton, HDS ’68, only attended Harvard Divinity School for one year, but the experience had a big influence on the rest of his life. You can see it in his career path. Inspired by his HDS field education experience at an inner-city church, as well as...

For much of history since WWII, religious conflict has plagued civilization. In the Middle East, Israeli Jews fight Muslim and Christian Arabs, while Shia and Sunni Muslims battle each other. In the West, secularists and moderate Christians and Muslims...

Harvard Divinity School today announced the appointment of the first Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, a new chair that will be at the center of the School's work to educate the religious leaders of the future. Dean...

Catherine Brekus is the Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School and the Program in American Studies at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is currently working on a book about Christianity and...

When he first encountered the work of Cormac McCarthy as a college student in the mid-'90s, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies Matthew Potts became spellbound by the novelist, whose dark and violent narratives have led readers deep into history (...

As a student, Natalie Campbell, MTS ’18, needed more than a campus, she needed a second home. During the 2017–18 academic year, she commuted to class each day from Belmont and couldn’t easily go back and forth to the School, so she often stayed in...

Jalane Schmidt could hear the chants across the street from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Charlottesville, Virginia on the night of August 11, 2017. “Blood and soil!” the torch-bearing marchers shouted as they gathered in front of a statue of Thomas...

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...

A message from HDS Dean David N. Hempton It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I must report the recent, unexpected passing of HDS Professor of South Asian Religions, Anne Monius. Anne was found unresponsive at her home in Cambridge on Saturday...

Harvard Divinity School celebrated its Alumni Day on June 4, 2008, with the theme "The Spiritual Nature of Physical Space." The featured speaker was Dav íd Carrasco, director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive at Harvard's Peabody Museum and Neil L...

View a conversation on religion and the 2020 election with James Kloppenberg, Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard, and E.J. Dionne, Visiting Professor in Religion and Political Culture at HDS. This event was moderated by Catherine...