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Last month I visited Paris over spring break, partly on school business and partly to visit some of the sights in one of my favorite cities. I made a pilgrimage to the Montparnasse cemetery to visit its beautiful Jewish section, and the graves of...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council is pleased to announce the 2014 recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors, inaugurated last year and given annually to a small group of graduates whose lives and work exemplify the mission and values of...

It is with great sadness that we learned of the recent passing of John Whitehead, a member of the HDS Dean's Council, honorary chair of the Campaign for HDS, and a great friend to the School for more than a generation. John was not an alumnus of HDS—he...

The United States' general response to the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, and its invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have left many Muslims feeling besieged. In the United States, they protest that the Patriot Act and other regulations target...

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation recently announced the selection of 22 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2013. Among them are Harvard doctoral candidates in history Philippa Hetherington and Caroline Spence, as well...

Is religion a cause of violent conflict or a catalyst for its transformation? Do faith leaders have a role at the international peacebuilding tables? Current international affairs highlight the power of religious ideologies—and their misappropriation—as a...

Muslim countries cannot be considered secular and liberal in the way we in the U.S. understand these qualifications, says Jocelyne Cesari, Lecturer in Islamic Studies at HDS. Cesari, who is director of Harvard's Islam in the West Program, will talk about...

Jeff Seul, MTS '97, was restless. In 1995 he left a career as a successful corporate lawyer to study the contemplative practices of different religions at HDS. Midway through his first semester, though, Seul realized that an academic life was not for him...

As head of religion research at the "fact tank" Pew Research Center, Alan Cooperman deals heavily in numbers. But he also knows that "numbers seldom tell the whole story," and that the students and scholars at Harvard are the people who can provide...

The United States is suffering through an epidemic of youth mental illness. For Varun Soni, MTS ’99, the crisis is not only one of mind, but also of spirit. The nonprofit, independent news site The Conversation reports that “from 2009 to 2017, major...

Enoch Joseph Aboi had been serving as a pastor for his church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria when in 2015 he started teaching full time at Evangelical Christian Winning All (ECWA) Theological Seminary. But Aboi soon realized that he was ready for more...

Tom Chappell is a living advertisement for doing well by doing good. By placing a commitment to social responsibility and to the environment at the center of his business, the HDS graduate, MTS '91, built Tom's of Maine into one of the nation's leading...