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How Should France Respond to Latest Terror Attacks? Look to the Catholic Church

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T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding Jocelyne Cesari argues that the excess of French laïcité on the visibility of religion in France has a boomerang effect on violent extremism.

Efforts Intensify to Determine Those First in Line to Receive a COVID-19 Vaccine—and Build Trust in Skeptical Communities

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“I was a little surprised that so many people in my community don’t trust this vaccine," said the Rev. Liz Walker, MDiv '05, pastor of Roxbury Presbyterian Church and a member of Governor Charlie Baker’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group. “I am talking to...

Q&A with Harvard Theological Review’s New Editor Giovanni Bazzana

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One of the oldest scholarly theological journals in the United States has a new editor. Harvard Divinity School Professor of New Testament Giovanni Bazzana became the new editor of Harvard Theological Review on July 1. Founded 112 years ago, HTR provides...

Harvard Divinity Faculty Presenting at 2020 Virtual AAR, SBL Annual Meetings

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The pandemic has caused countless events to be reconfigured in the name of safety, and the 2020 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings are no exception. The conference, which was set to take place this month in...

What Really Matters

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"Our lives are so fragile. They always have been. We are always living on the brink, on the edge, at the threshold. Every single day carries the possibility of our last judgment. Every breath is a prelude to the apocalypse. As the philosopher and mystic...

Video: Religion and the 2020 Election: A Conversation with James Kloppenberg and E.J. Dionne

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View a conversation on religion and the 2020 election with James Kloppenberg, Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard, and E.J. Dionne, Visiting Professor in Religion and Political Culture at HDS. This event was moderated by Catherine...

Video: Sisters of the Psychedelic Revolution: A Conversation with Leni Sinclair and Genie Parker

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Hippie culture left a lasting impression on the Mid-West of the United States. Historians tend to portray the Haight Ashbury of San Francisco and the East Village of Manhattan as America’s foremost psychedelic hotspots, but it was in the college town of...

Video: The Religion of White Rage

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This panel discussion of "The Religion of White Rage" was held November 2 with the book’s three editors, as part of the Center for the Study of World Religion's series on “Race, Religion, and Nationalism.” This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white...

The Power of Touch

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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?

Searching for the Beginning

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"And yet, the situation we’re in will not last forever. Slowly, by fits and starts, things will begin changing. We have a future together," says Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, and Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of...

Black Buddhists Explore Healing and Liberation in New Anthology

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HDS Senior Lecturer Cheryl Giles discusses her new co-edited anthology, Black & Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation & Freedom, in which eight teachers share their journeys.

How to Make Your Pandemic Holiday Feel like a Holiday

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Ministry Innovation Fellow Casper ter Kuile discusses filling reimagined celebrations with the importance, joy, and light mayhem that we yearn for in this season.