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Each academic year, Harvard Divinity School is fortunate to claim an impressive roster of visiting professors and lecturers because of its numerous endowed lectureships and several semester- and year-long teaching opportunities for professors from other...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 90 this year. While his name and his contribution to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement are revered, some wonder if Dr. King’s legacy is in jeopardy amid a resurgence of racism, xenophobia, and hate...

This summer, thanks to several generous gifts in support of Dean David N. Hempton’s campaign initiatives, HDS continued its ongoing effort to provide students with financial support so that they can serve communities locally and abroad through...

Calling abuse and violence toward women and girls the most horrendous human rights issue on Earth, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter charged the hundreds who came to hear him talk at Harvard to stop the harm being done to half of the world's population...

In the spring of 2013, Cary Dabney found an envelope from Harvard Divinity School in his mailbox. The first member of his family to attend college, Dabney prepared himself for disappointment. He turned to his son—one of his six children—and joked that he...

“Democracy and conflict resolution are linked concepts,” says Darren Kew, a visiting scholar of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. “If you take a conflict resolution workshop and institutionalize it, you get something that ultimately looks a lot like...

Margaux McDonald graduated in 2008 with a master of theological studies degree from HDS and a master of public administration degree from Harvard Kennedy School. She is currently on leave from her position as a financial analyst in Harvard's Office of...

Three Harvard Divinity School professors are among the 40 participants interviewed in Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith, a two-hour documentary making its Boston prime-time television debut on WGBH-TV Tuesday, April 2 from 9 to 11 PM (it will also...

Though Taylor Petrey did his doctoral work on ancient Christian debates about the resurrection, this last year he found himself teaching a course at HDS on the 200-year-old tradition of Mormonism—a newcomer, by the standards of world religions. Petrey...

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...

For some HDS graduates and students, trying to find employment in the midst of the current economic climate is proving to be a harsh test of patience and perse­verance. Even getting one's foot in the door has become more difficult than in previous years...

Hindu monastics bring Vedanta to HDS and gain new perspectives on their tradition—and others Just like any student at Harvard, Swami Sarvapriyananda had dreams about what he would do when he grew up. As he sat in a classroom in Rockefeller Hall on Harvard...