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Harvard Divinity School celebrates and honors the distinguished career of Professor Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, who, in July 2021, retired from full-time teaching at HDS and now serves as the Charles Chauncey Stillman Research Professor of Roman Catholic...

At one time in the not-too-distant past, Mouhamadou Diagne seemed destined for a career in academia. He was enrolled as an MTS candidate at HDS in Religion, Ethics, and Politics, and was on course to pursue a PhD in education. But a chance encounter with...

Halloween has become synonymous with costumes and candy, but what lies beyond the ghoulish face paint and Tootsie Roll wrappers? Kimberley Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion at Harvard Divinity School, has long studied...

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...

What would it look like if we didn’t put human beings at the center of creation? That’s the question that Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies Janet Gyatso explores with her students in “Knowing Animals” and “Forms of Life,” two HDS courses that...

Matthew L. Potts has a really long commute to work. Since 2013, when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School, Potts has been driving over 75 miles from Falmouth, Massachusetts—where he lives with his family and...

The Rev. Cynthia Kane, MDiv ’96, says that her ministry is a lot like any other. She is a companion and guide to people with diverse backgrounds and experiences and helps them address questions of morality, faith, spirituality, and ethics. In many ways...

Harvard Divinity School Senior Lecturer Diane Moore has modest goals for her upcoming online course, " World Religions Through Their Scripture." She merely wants to increase religious understanding, open up crucial dialogues, and change the world—or at...

When former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead looks around the world, he’s troubled by what he sees: unfortunate new aggressive actions by Russia; war in Iraq; ongoing conflict between Arabs and Israelis; tension between India and Pakistan...

Jeremy Sher was at a dead end. A 1999 MIT graduate with a degree in mathematics, Sher had a flourishing career in technology, but his heart wasn't in it. He felt called to life as a rabbi but couldn't attend traditional schools that prohibit interfaith...

Ahead of his book talk on April 20, CSWR director and HDS professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., opens up about the importance of comparing religious traditions, the difficulties of academic writing, and if loving God is harder today than it was centuries...

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...