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This past fall, after 24 years, Peter Machinist retired from full-time teaching as the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, serving as faculty both in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department and...

Professor Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America delivered the 2019 Convocation address “Toni Morrison Stories: Goodness and Mercy and Mexico.” FULL TRANSCRIPT: [MUSIC PLAYING] [APPLAUSE] RAMONA PETERS: [SPEAKING...

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...

A conversation with the three Hindu monastics visiting HDS this year, each representing a different Hindu tradition: Swami Sarvapriyananda (Ramakrishna Mission), Brahmacharini Shweta Chaitanya (Chinmaya Mission), and Sadhak Akshar–Guru: Mahant Swami...

Harvard University is honored to welcome Professor Eduardo Matos Moctezuma on April 10, 2018 to deliver the lecture, “ Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Discovers Himself: Excavations of the Great Aztec Temple,” at 6 pm, at the Geological Lecture Hall (24 Oxford...

On August 2, the Vatican announced a change in the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty. The new teaching rejects the notion that capital punishment is legitimate in some cases, declaring that “‘the death penalty is...

In a year unlike any other, HDS celebrates the diversity of alumni impact in the public sphere with the 2021 Gomes Honors. Each year, the HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) recognizes the Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honors, celebrating...

This fall semester, Professor Cheryl Giles joined a number of members of the HDS community in calling for a more conscious religious engagement with injustice. At an October panel discussion, “ Changing the World from the Inside Out: Multi-Faith...

A reflection and panel discussion on how and where spirituality, social justice, and climate change come together and intersect within faith traditions. Speakers included: Dan McKanan, AB ’89, Ralph Waldo Emerson UUA Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity...

On May 30, Anna Carlstone will graduate from Harvard Divinity School with a master of theological studies degree. Below, she discusses the ways in which her experiences at HDS have helped shape her life; why new students should use their summers wisely...

It was the Rev. Jonathan Walton's first trip to the Mamelodi township, an area ravaged by AIDS, poverty, and crime just outside Pretoria, South Africa. But it won't be his last. "This was just the beginning of what plans to be an annual trip for me," said...

Harvard University announced today that the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Professor in Religion and Society and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Divinity, will resign as head of Harvard Divinity School (HDS) at the end of 2001 to become president...