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Innovative documentary interweaves 7th century biography with the lives of 21st century American Muslims inspired and guided by Muhammad's example. His father died before he was born, and his mother died when he was only six. But sheltered by a powerful...

HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. Favorite Class...

There’s an important but underappreciated dimension in The Souls of Black Folk, one of the most well-known books by W.E.B. Du Bois. Anthony Pinn, MDiv ’89, calls it “the problem soul.” Pinn, the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of...

James L. Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and member of the Faculty of Divinity, won the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, The Bible as It Was. The Award, a $200,000...

James L. Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and member of the Faculty of Divinity, has won the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, The Bible as It Was. The Award, a $200,000...

The Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School dedicated its new nondenominational meditation room in a ceremony on Monday, October 4. New CSWR director Francis X. Clooney presided over the event, which drew a large audience...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, HDS student Bo Clay chats with HDS Professor Mark Jordan, who has written extensively in the field of sexual ethics, about...

Harvard Divinity School's publication, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, was recognized on October 6, 2012 as one of the Religion Newswriters Association's (RNA) magazines of the year. The annual RNA awards ceremony was held this year in Bethesda, Maryland. The...

The following reflection was written by Father Pishoy Salama, priest in the Coptic Orthodox Church and resident fellow at Harvard Divinity School during the 2019 fall semester. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it...

Millennials—Americans aged 18-34—who say they 'talk to God' outnumber those who say they do not by almost a 2-1 margin, according to a new survey by the Integrated Innovation Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. At the same time, only a bare majority...

Hindu monastics bring Vedanta to HDS and gain new perspectives on their tradition—and others Just like any student at Harvard, Swami Sarvapriyananda had dreams about what he would do when he grew up. As he sat in a classroom in Rockefeller Hall on Harvard...

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...