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Based on in-depth interviews with Jewish Palestine solidarity activists and a study of Jewish solidarity movements on social media, Atalia Omer demonstrates in When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and...

Paula Smith was 33 years old the first time she encountered a female minister. That minister was the Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, Chaplain of Brown University, who happens to be an alumna of Harvard Divinity School. The two became friends after Smith...

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology. On January 6, 2019, he delivered the sermon during Sunday Services at Memorial Church. Below are his remarks. ♦♦♦ When I was a child, our family would always...

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...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council established the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors in 2013 to celebrate the outstanding contributions that HDS alumni make to their fields, and to society, across the broad spectrum of professions and vocations that HDS...

The day that Abel Rodriguez won his first asylum case was the best of his career as an immigration attorney. He was overjoyed and his work seemed full of meaning after accompanying his client through a process that was long and stressful but ultimately...

HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. How I've...

During his six-day visit to the United States Pope Francis will speak at the White House, deliver speeches to Congress and at the United Nations, and celebrate a Mass at Madison Square Garden. But Harvard professors say that other items on the pope's...

"When you see the rallies and the protests, listen past the words and look past the signs." The following reflection is by Irene Routte, MTS '14, who helped organize a group of HDS students and alumni who traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, this past summer...

On Thursday, October 19, and Friday, October 20, Harvard Divinity School will host a conference on Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration. Organized by Matthew Potts, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature and of Ministry Studies, and Michelle...

North Korea and South Korea have been in an official state of war for more than 60 years, which has led to, among other things, a massive Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and the separation of family members on both sides of the border for decades. Believing that...

The history of Harvard Divinity School may not be what you think. To celebrate HDS’s bicentennial, Ann Braude, director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer on American Religious History, has worked for more than eight months on...