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HDS alum Anh H. Tran is the child of Vietnamese refugees and grew up Buddhist. Her youthful curiosity is what drew her to spirituality.

In a new essay, Professor Davíd Carrasco tells the story of his personal and academic encounters with religion and spirituality.

"America needs to care for its soul." That's the provocative conclusion of a new report (PDF) from HDS Ministry Innovation Fellows Casper ter Kuile, Angie Thurston, and Rev. Sue Phillips. Over the past four years, the trio have traveled the country to...

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...

The NFL has chaplains. Most universities do, too. The military, U.S. Congress, and hospitals across the country have access to chaplaincy resources, but not social change leaders. Not typically anyway. But over the last several years, three Harvard...

Cornelia Holden, MDiv ’03 shares her experiences as a spiritual innovator and founder of Mindful Warrior and the Core Leadership California at Ministry Colloquium. Audio

In August, Cornel West stood arm-in-arm with clergy members in Charlottesville, Virginia, singing “This Little Light of Mine” while white supremacist groups spat at them and shouted racial epithets. Just weeks later, the HDS Professor of the Practice of...

Professor Davíd Carrasco explains the spiritual meaning of items recently found in Mexico City, once home to the Aztec empire's holiest shrines, and believed buried there 500 yearrs ago.

Cameron Partridge, HDS lecturer and graduate, talks about his transgender and spiritual journeys, his discomfort with simplistic views of male and female, and feeling at home in Anglicanism.

On Wednesday, April 20, at 5:15 pm, in the CSWR Common Room, Joseph Roccasalvo, author and graduate school mentor, will offer his lecture "Fiction Writing & the Religious Imagination, or How to Write a Spiritual Thriller."

HDS monastic Swami Sarvapriyananda, minister and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of New York, offers a mindful approach to social distancing for those who feel cut off or cooped up.

In its “How We Gather” study, Harvard Divinity School researchers documented wide-ranging spiritual communities for the young ranging from Afro Flow Yoga and dinner churches to public meditation groups.