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Much has been written about the Northern Ireland peace process, particularly on securing the peace. However, as Senator George Mitchell commented in relation to the Good Friday agreement, “If you think getting this agreement was difficult, implementing it...

WSRP Research Associate Taylor Petrey delivers his talk, “The Mormon Homosexual: Caring and Curing from the 1970s to the Present.”

"Business" is a taboo topic in divinity school but anyone who wants to change the world needs to understand how to think like an entrepreneur. Leading experts on social and wellness entrepreneurship, innovative leadership, and the intersection of money...

A reflection and panel discussion on how and where spirituality, social justice, and climate change come together and intersect within faith traditions. Speakers included: Dan McKanan, AB ’89, Ralph Waldo Emerson UUA Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity...

What would it look like if we didn’t put human beings at the center of creation? That’s the question that Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies Janet Gyatso explores with her students in “Knowing Animals” and “Forms of Life,” two HDS courses that...

Harvard President Drew Faust spoke about the HDS's history and mission during the School's bicentennial celebration on April 28, 2017. Listen

HDS faculty and friends remembered Professor Anne E. Monius during a memorial service on October 11, 2019. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, passed away on August 3, 2019. FULL TRANSCRIPT: [INDIAN MUSIC PLAYING] Good...

In December 1815, President John T. Kirkland, appealed for support of the “best and noblest cause, which human benevolence is permitted to advance”: the education of ministers at Harvard University. His letter to the School’s alumni described society’s...

Under the auspices of RPL, programs come together to promote a just world at peace Yaseen Hashmi, MTS ’21, didn’t expect an epiphany when he joined students from HDS and six of Harvard’s other graduate schools for a January-term course in Israel and...

Abhijith Ravinutala, MTS candidate, delivered the following remarks during a Spirituality and Mental Health Advocacy session on October 15, 2018. ♦♦♦ I have spent enough time at Harvard Divinity School now to know that there are a few general ways of...

HDS students Mary Balkon, Aric Flemming, and Jade Sylvan deliver sermons for the Billings Preaching Prize Competition during Noon Service on April 10, 2019. The competition winner was Jade Sylvan. In addition, Isaac Martinez, the Massachusetts Bible...

Three Hindu monastics visiting Harvard Divinity School this year spoke on March 11, 2020, on the great tradition of the Upanisads and Vedanta, and why this wisdom is relevant in today’s global society. Featuring: Swami Sarvapriyananda (Ramakrishna Mission...