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Stephanie Paulsell has been appointed Associate Dean for Ministerial Studies and Senior Lecturer on Ministry, effective July 1, 2003. She replaces Nancy Richardson, who is beginning a phased retirement but will continue to teach at HDS. "We are very...

"Pray without ceasing, Jesus teaches, keep knocking at the door....It is through prayer that both we, and God, become who we were meant to be." Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies at HDS, delivered the Sunday Sermon...

Chris Skowronski teaches at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Opole University, Poland. He has published numerous articles in English, Polish, and Spanish on American Philosophy. Skowronski is the author of Santayana and America: Values...

"We are slowed down, yet living in a world of urgency and woe, where there is so much to be done. It is surely for the good that we are asking ourselves, 'Why do I do the research, writing, and teaching that I do?' This existential crisis may be a good...

Asked how HDS professors Catherine Brekus and David Holland came to co-teach "Narratives of American Religion: The Canon and Its Revisions," Brekus said the decision to collaborate was made quickly. "David said, 'That sounds like a fun course,' and I said...

Twenty-three years ago, the spring issue of Harvard Divinity Bulletin included the following announcement: "Henri J.M. Nouwen, a Dutch priest, theologian, psychologist, and noted author has accepted an appointment at HDS as Professor of Divinity and...

Harvard Divinity School joins the rest of the religious studies community in honoring the life of Inés M. Talamantez, Professor of Native American Religious Traditions at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Talamantez, once a visiting...

You're walking in the country and you fall into quicksand. You feel yourself being sucked under and panic. You can't walk through it. You can't swim through it. The more you move, the deeper you sink. Exhausted, you finally lay back in despair. "I’m going...

On August 31, legendary professor Harvey Cox delivered the 2015 Convocation address. Titled "The Babylonian Captivity of Theology," Cox encouraged his fellow faculty members and Harvard Divinity School graduate students to be troublemakers. If theology is...

"I love being here at HDS and in the United States and meeting new people—visiting scholars, faculty, postdocs, students, colleagues. I love learning their stories. It is what I have always wanted: to be in a very diverse environment, teaching, studying...

In Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the title character agonizes over a dreadful thought as he nears the end of his life: “What if my entire life, my entire conscious life, was not the real thing?” Scotty McLennan asks his students to ponder the...

This talk examined the forms that grief can take, in the work of Zoe Leonard, Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz, and John Constable. Kate Zambreno is the author of several acclaimed books, including Screen Tests, Heroines, and Green Girl. She has recently...