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Two years after she first thought of the idea of introducing a special program—one that would bring racial and ethnic minority undergraduate students to Harvard Divinity School to expose them to ministerial and theological graduate education—Maritza...

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was exercising on a treadmill when she received a call notifying her that she would soon become the next mayor of Baltimore. What the call didn’t explain was how her leadership abilities would be repeatedly tested. Rawlings-Blake...

Amidst the burdens placed on the healthcare system in the U.S. by COVID-19 , chaplains in hospitals and healthcare centers are facing a new learning curve: how to “show up” for patients when physical distancing is crucial for all who enter into public...

The students in HDS alumnus Tom Anderson’s class on social ethics at Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU) Weatherhead School of Management are hard-driving business leaders. They’ve been successful in a hypercompetitive marketplace that often provides...

Sally Hammel, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks during the Tuesday morning Ecumenical Eucharist in Andover Chapel on April 2, 2019. ♦♦♦ The Lord brought me back to the entrance of the temple; there, water was flowing from below the threshold...

Victoria Osteen, co-pastor with her husband Joel of the Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, recently sparked controversy after she told her congregation that "when we obey God, we're not doing it for God…we're doing it for ourselves, because God takes...

Natalie Cherie Campbell is a second year MTS candidate and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She wrote this reaction piece following the January 2 passing of Thomas S. Monson, the president of the LDS church. ♦♦♦ Upon the death...

As an undergraduate in Los Angeles, Nestor Pimienta was often asked by university workers if he could tutor their children to steer them toward the road he took. Driven by a passion for social justice that he attributes to having grown up in an immigrant...

Rosemarie Smurzynski, MTS '80, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on March 11, 2019. ♦♦♦ At 10, I read books on Greek Myths. I searched the sky to pick out the mythic gods outlined among the stars. All I could...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) is pleased to announce four new members, who will begin terms of service on July 1, 2013: Peter K. Anagnostos, MTS '86, of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv '10, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Shenila...

Few changes have been more dramatic in the long history of Harvard Divinity School than the inclusion of women—both as scholars and the subject of scholarship. In that context, 1973 was a milestone. That year, HDS established its Women’s Studies in...

As part of January Term 2011, 10 Harvard Divinity School students, along with Maritza Hernandez, associate dean for enrollment and student services, and Matthew Myer Boulton, Associate Professor of Ministry Studies, traveled to the Arizona-Mexico border...