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Former directors, residents, and students of the Center for the Study of World Religions discuss the different eras of the Center’s history of studying religion.

Laura S. Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, has been named one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (PDF) for 2013-14 by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and...

Stephen Shoemaker, a lecturer on the study of religion, said it is common for his students to be surprised by the significance of religion in the evolution of Harvard, and he believes part of his mission is to raise that awareness.

The 2018 Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial honorees speak for the final installment of this year’s Divinity Dialogues. The panelists were: Robert Michael Franklin, MDiv '78; Jalane D. Schmidt, MDiv '96, AM '05, PhD '05; Simran Jeet Singh, MTS '08; Karen I...

"Teaching about religion through the isolated lens of rituals, beliefs, and practices is problematic," writes Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project at HDS.

The celebrated New Testament scholar Giovanni Bazzana has accepted an appointment to the Faculty of Divinity as Assistant Professor of New Testament. Bazzana, who currently serves as a sessional instructor in the Department for the Study of Religion at...

This timely lecture was delivered on October 2, 2012, by Randall Balmer, chair of the Religion Department and Mandel Family Professor of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College. John F. Kennedy's address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on...

When MDiv candidate and HDS Humanists group leader Casper ter Kuile sent out a call last academic year for "humanists, agnostics, atheists, and people who identify as spiritual but not religious," a handful of students showed up eager to share their...

At a Noon Service hosted in the spring by the HDS Garden Group, the Rev. Dr. María Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa, MDiv ’07, ThD ’16, shared a single ear of multicolored corn with those present. Vlassidis Burgoa, who was studying indigenous traditions and...

Monday, August 31, was an auspicious day at Harvard Divinity School. It was not only our Convocation, the formal opening of the new academic year, but also, at the start of 2015-16, a step closer to the actual bicentennial of the School. It was also an...

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...

I write at perhaps the most challenging moment of our lifetimes, as our society reels from global pandemic, economic collapse, and social unrest. We have all been affected. Many in the HDS community are on the front lines as activists, caregivers, and...