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Theologians often characterize the rational mind’s embrace of religion as being a leap of faith, where the believer is courageous yet humble, passionate yet deferential to an acknowledged greater good. HDS graduate Nokuthula Ngwenyama, MTS ’02, uses...

Azmera Hammouri-Davis, MTS candidate, attended the third annual Black Religion, Spirituality, and Culture Conference at HDS on February 28 and March 1, 2019. Below is her reflection following the conference. ♦♦♦ In a time where violence, hatred, racism...

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...

Harvard Divinity School (HDS) announces a major gift to support and expand its program in Buddhist ministry studies. The gift will provide exceptional funding to enhance and expand the strength of the School's current offerings and will help to form a new...

HDS Dean David N. Hempton is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe, North America, and beyond. On September 21, 2016, he spoke at the Morning Prayers service in Holden Chapel, Harvard...

Students and religious leaders explored the intersection of religion and environmentalism at a conference held Friday at HDS.

New Divinity School garden a kind of sacred space.

Katrina Peterson, MDiv '16, penned a personal essay that explores the relationship between humans, nature, and well-being.

On one day in May, the entire Harvard Divinity School (HDS) community comes together to celebrate shared achievements: graduation and the greening of Harvard’s Campus.

Though rain forced the annual Harvest Celebration indoors this year, the HDS community still shared in a thankful blessing of the HDS Garden.

This Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium explores the intersection of racism, oppression, urban trauma, disaster, and other social realities faced by those desperately in need of peace. More than the absence of violence and war, we need the...

Graham Harvey, professor of religious studies at The Open University (UK), discusses animism and how our relations are damaged by ongoing efforts to separate (human) culture from ‘nature’ and humans from other species.