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It is the calling of her life: to bring forward what she describes as "the small voice." This is the shared voice of the abused and raped, the orphaned and marginalized. This is the voice that Elizabeth Siwo-Okundi recognizes, and that is the subject of...

“My mission in life is to understand how religion can be a vehicle for peace in the world—well, one of my two missions. My other mission in life is to ‘help out anyone that needs it.’”— Hope Williams, MTS '20

Leymah Gbowee won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her efforts that led to ending the Liberian civil war. On Thursday, October 6, she will come to HDS to discuss her experiences and insights into peacebuilding as part of the Religions and the Practice of...

On the morning of Aug. 20, 1965, the fates of Ruby Sales, a 17-year-old black activist from Georgia, and Jonathan Daniels, a white Episcopalian seminarian from New Hampshire, crossed in the struggle against segregation in the South. That day, Daniels gave...

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...

MTS candidate Julia Ogilvy discusses during Morning Prayers at Memorial Church her life-changing awakening.

Robert Franklin is worried about America. He sees distance, mistrust, and division in society eroding the foundations of U.S. democracy. A student of political science, Franklin understands that changing demographics, geographic isolation, identity...

Several Harvard Divinity School faculty members will be in San Diego, California in late November to present during the 2019 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings. The conference, which takes place November 23-26...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus Harvey Cox about his fall 2017 class “Pope Francis: His ‘Theology of the...

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...

Kenneth W. Morgan died at the age of 103 on December 23, 2011, bringing a long life of accomplishment to a close. In noting his death here, the Center for the Study of World Religions also wants to celebrate all that Kenneth Morgan did that continues to...

On Thursday, October 19, and Friday, October 20, Harvard Divinity School will host a conference on Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration. Organized by Matthew Potts, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature and of Ministry Studies, and Michelle...