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At a venerable private school in Massachusetts, some of the best and brightest seniors showed up recently for an advanced course in Islamic studies. The teacher eagerly started off by trying to delve into subjects of Islamic culture and law, but she found...

“If something is not healthy, we are moving on until we find a product that is,” said Ralph DeFlorio, HDS's director of operations.

"The red rock desert of Utah is my sacred text, alive and awakened in spring," says HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams.

In Camphill communities around the world, "diversely-abled people are pioneering a host of innovative environmental projects and successfully building communities where people and planet prosper," writes HDS faculty member Dan McKanan.

HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams considers how we go deeper with our feeling of what does it mean to touch and be touched?

Javad Hashmi spent the last decade of his life becoming a doctor, having recently completed medical school and residency. However, he admits that his "true passion" is, and always has been, theology. An emergency room doctor and fellow at the Center for...

In reaction to the growing challenges posed by global environmental change, author and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and Sam Myers, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health principal research scientist and Planetary...

Evolution is an organizing principle of the living world. While competition is integral to evolution, cooperation can be seen as the master architect of biological complexity, language, and culture. Human beings have emerged from this evolutionary process...

"And in the midst of deep suffering, I think there are these grace notes. If we can take this time for what it is, a planetary pause, that I think ultimately can restore us to an equilibrium we haven't known," says HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest...

"I was thinking about being here at the Divinity School, one of the things that has inspired me is it's not just what we believe, but how we behave. And I really see a strong moral imperative among our young people," says Terry Tempest Williams, HDS...

From Baghdad to Cairo to Edirne, hospitals were major and integral components of medieval and early modern Islamic cities. But what role did they play in these cities and their societies? In this podcast, Professor Ahmed Ragab examines the history and...

"Taking the HDS course 'Change, Adversity and Spiritual Resilience' opened my eyes to the extent of the spiritual crisis that people are walking through whenever they are undergoing change, whether positive or negative," says Keona Wynne, PhD candidate at...