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From exploring Islam's peace teachings to debating whether CrossFit is a kind of church, there are plenty of interesting and thought-provoking events taking place on campus this semester. Check out the highlights below, add them to your calendars, and be...

Matthew L. Potts has a really long commute to work. Since 2013, when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School, Potts has been driving over 75 miles from Falmouth, Massachusetts—where he lives with his family and...

Steven Simon’s warning in the January 4, 2000, edition of the New York Times was like cold water in the face of Americans still bleary-eyed from partying like it was 1999. Simon, fresh from a counterterrorism assignment in the Clinton White House, and his...

In a nation clearly so divided as the United States these days —politically, socially, culturally —how do we fight for our beliefs at an urgent moment without ostracizing those who old other views? That’s the question distinguished journalist and author E...

Professor Michael D. Jackson arrived at Harvard Divinity School in 2005 after many years of ethnographic and teaching experience in Sierra Leone, Australia, Denmark, and New Zealand—just to name a few. A prolific scholar, Jackson has published more than...

In Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the title character agonizes over a dreadful thought as he nears the end of his life: “What if my entire life, my entire conscious life, was not the real thing?” Scotty McLennan asks his students to ponder the...

This feature was written by Tajay Bongsa, Odalis Garcia, Nicole Morris, Nicholas J. Scrimenti, Kayla J. Smith, and Hope Williams of the Religions and the Practice of Peace team. It started with a song, "Celebrate Good Times." Everyone got up on their feet...

Since he arrived at Harvard Divinity School two years ago as an MTS degree candidate, it has been Danny Ballon's mission to prove that "gay" and "Christian" are not antithetical. And while HDS has long been an LGBTQ-friendly community, Ballon is...

Theologians often characterize the rational mind’s embrace of religion as being a leap of faith, where the believer is courageous yet humble, passionate yet deferential to an acknowledged greater good. HDS graduate Nokuthula Ngwenyama, MTS ’02, uses...

Earlier this month, I was one of six Harvard Divinity School students sitting in the United Nations’ Security Council chamber listening to delegates from countries around the world talk about how faith and religion were both causes and solutions to peace...

When Valarie Kaur, MTS ’07, visited the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, after a white supremacist shot six people there in August of 2012, she found none of the recriminations and finger-pointing that characterized the politics of gun violence in the...