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Harvard Divinity School has been closely monitoring the course of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Since moving to online instruction in March 2020, HDS, along with the rest of Harvard University, has been considering how best to fulfill its educational...

Preeminent New Testament scholar and religious historian François Bovon passed away Friday, November 1, in Aubonne, Switzerland, after a long illness. He was 75. Bovon was Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion Emeritus at Harvard Divinity...

Harvard University announced today that the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Professor in Religion and Society and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Divinity, will resign as head of Harvard Divinity School (HDS) at the end of 2001 to become president...

Harvard Divinity School today announced a $25 million gift from artist and philanthropist Susan Shallcross Swartz and her husband, investor James R. Swartz, AB '64. The gift—the largest in the School’s 200-year history—will enable HDS to move forward on...

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton commemorated the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks today with a visit to New York City, where he challenged students at one of the nation's elite independent schools to "better understand both the...

In the United States, the end of the year swells with charitable and giving occasions: clothing and food drives, Hanukkah and Christmas gifts, and end-of-year charitable appeals are all opportunities to be generous. But what do some of the world's major...

Sometimes the Rev. Katherine Buechner Arthaud, MDiv ’86, wonders if she’s making a difference. The crowd in the pews on Sundays can be small in the rural Vermont churches she serves. She’s not sure that her sermons always resonate with parishioners. A...

Paula Smith was 33 years old the first time she encountered a female minister. That minister was the Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, Chaplain of Brown University, who happens to be an alumna of Harvard Divinity School. The two became friends after Smith...

At first glance, it might appear that the five research associates with the Women's Studies in Religion Program at HDS this year don't have much in common—other than the fact that they're all women. To an extent probably greater than ever before, these...

At a faculty meeting on April 7, 2014, HDS professors Karen L. King and David D. Hall presented the following 'Memorial Minute' to pay tribute to their late friend and colleague. New Testament scholar and religious historian François Bovon passed away...

In a letter last weekend to the Harvard community supporting international students and faculty, President Drew Faust unveiled a plan to appoint the first full-time University-wide Muslim chaplain. Under the plan, which was the result of months of...

In the middle of the Braun Room, closely surrounded by onlookers, Los­ang Samten stood over the colorful sand mandala, which he'd spent the bet­ter part of two days creating, and smiled while others swept it away. The creation, and subsequent ceremonial...