Search

When HDS Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura Nasrallah created the School's first massive open online course (MOOC) for the edX platform, she didn't think much about how many people would register. When she did, her expectations were...

A group of 11 HDS students, faculty, and friends recently gathered behind Andover Hall for what has become an annual tradition: Building the HDS sukkah. Led by Rabbi Sally Finestone, the denominational counselor to Jewish students at HDS, the multifaith...

Katie Ford and Sarah Sentilles studied under Gordon Kaufman a decade ago when they were enrolled in the MDiv program at HDS. Ford, MDiv '01, went on to become a poet and professor of English, and Sentilles, MDiv '01, earned a ThD from HDS in 2008 and...

Thomas (Tal) A. Lewis has been Assistant Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School since 2003. His book Freedom and Tradition in Hegel: Reconsidering Anthropology, Ethics, and Religion was published in 2005 by University of Notre Dame...

Holly Lebowitz Rossi, MTS '99, is a freelance writer and editor who has covered religion, health, yoga, and parenting for more for two decades. Below, HDS student Emily Farnsworth speaks with Rossi about her new book, The Yoga Effect: A Proven Program for...

In his new book, I Don't Believe in Atheists (Free Press), Chris Hedges, MDiv '83, critiques the "new atheists" and argues that their belief system is as polarizing as that of the religious right. Jonathan Beasley recently spoke with Hedges about his time...

"For the way in which an educational institution thinks about religious groups and their distinctive worldviews touches upon the deeper issue of the nature and goals of education in general and upon the mission of individual educational institutions in...

As part of the Divinity School's Leadership Day, held April 5, Harvard President Drew Faust and HDS Dean David Hempton sat down to discuss the role of the study of religion and spiritual life in the 21st century—at Harvard and beyond. The talk was...

The Reverend James Lawson admits that it sometimes troubles him when people view him as a living artifact of the civil rights movement, especially because he has been arrested for civil disobedience more times in the last 10 years than he ever was during...

Under a tent on the HDS Campus Green, behind Andover Hall, members of the HDS community gathered on August 29, 2013, to welcome a new academic year. Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies, delivered the ceremony's...

Ahmed Ragab, physician, historian, and scholar of the medieval and modern Middle East, has been named the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2011. Ragab was a visiting lecturer at...

The annual William James Lecture on Religious Experience was presented on April 25, 2013, by Jeremy Carrette, Professor of Religion and Culture at the University of Kent. The endowed lecture was introduced by Dean David Hempton and by David Lamberth...