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Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

Harvard Divinity School student Shannon Boley pushed open the heavy door to the large shipping container and slowly stepped out on to the School’s campus green, wiping away tears from her eyes. Asked why she was crying, she said “that was just a...

Religious traditions insist on the importance of cultivating our faculty of attention, whether it be attention to ourselves, others, our environment, or the presence of the divine in any of these three. This panel will explore whether and how the practice...

"The classroom atmosphere is vibrant, the professors are some of the best in the world, and the field education experience is transformative." Upali Sramon, a 2013–14 Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Scholar with the Buddhist Ministry Program, discusses...

Zen master Dogen said "Enlightenment is the intimacy of all things." Kittisaro and Thanissara, former Buddhist monastics and longtime meditation teachers, reflect on how to live from this reality in a world increasingly divided and threatened by climate...

Where do our ideas about how the economy works, and our views on economic policy, come from? Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets, among economists as well as many ordinary citizens, is a form of religion. The...

This panel discussion of "The Religion of White Rage" was held November 2 with the book’s three editors, as part of the Center for the Study of World Religion's series on “Race, Religion, and Nationalism.” This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white...

From all of us at HDS, we wish you a season of light. 2016 Seasons of Light

Women’s Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) Research Associates share their thoughts on the ethical responsibility of scholars to be engaged in the study of gender.

A lecture with Marcell Sass, Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education, University of Münster, Germany and visiting fellow at the CSWR.

On November 6, 2013, HDS hosted its annual Theological Education Day. A series of panel discussions took place, including this one that provided information on admissions.

On April 26, as part of HDS's celebration and recognition of the Deanship of William A. Graham, a panel of HDS faculty members reflected on his accomplishments over the last decade and spoke about the future of the School.