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Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, who will soon graduate from the Divinity School with a master of divinity degree, has many passions and pursuits. A recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, she will spend the coming year expanding...

In 2016, the Harvard Crimson named HDS’s Mark Jordan one of the top 15 professors at Harvard University. Holding professorships at both the Divinity School and at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Jordan examines the intersection between...

Leymah Gbowee won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her efforts that led to ending the Liberian civil war. On Thursday, October 6, she will come to HDS to discuss her experiences and insights into peacebuilding as part of the Religions and the Practice of...

This discussion took place during the 2003 Dean's Weekend. BILL GRAHAM: Our second panel takes up our question and moves it a little bit further in discussing the encounter with religion in the modern university. We have a group that's going to bring a...

A Harvard-backed expedition working in Israel has carried out the first-ever excavation of a Philistine cemetery.

Although Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program has long welcomed scholars from abroad and scholars with international research interests, this year's WSRP research associates are an especially seasoned group of world travelers...

HDS professor Kevin Madigan is a wide-ranging historian of medieval Christian religious practice and thought. In January, his book Medieval Christianity: A New History was published and is already garnering rave reviews. A narrative history spanning from...

As a soldier in WWII, Ben Ferencz, JD '43, participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, sites of some of the worst atrocities in human history. When the war was over, as chief prosecutor of one of the Nuremberg trials, he brought to justice...

The once prevalent suggestion that religious thinkers and scientific scholars cannot truly engage in meaningful discourse has been mostly reduced to a moot point. Take, for example, two recent MTS graduates from Harvard Divinity School, Mara Block and...

Lynne Gerber never imagined that she would become an avid consumer of Focus on the Family Christian radio. "I grew up in New York in a very Jewish community," Gerber said. "We understood what Catholics were, but Protestants were a whole entire other thing...

The Rev. Dr. Gary Mason and Dean David N. Hempton will speak on “ The Role of Reconciliation, Memory, and Theology in Shaping the Public Stage ” on Wednesday, February 27, at 2 pm, on the HDS campus. RSVP kindly requested . When we think of the bitter...

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...