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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...

Duncan Gardner, MDiv ’14, is one of the growing number of alumni of the HDS Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI), the first program of its kind at a divinity school associated with a major research university. He tells the inmates in the Tennessee prison...

When the archaeology PhD student Ann Seiferle-Valencia tells friends and family about the sixteenth-century codex Mapa de Cuauhtinchan ("Place of the Eagle"), which she is helping to decipher along with an international team of scholars assembled by...

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...

In his teaching and research, Matthew Myer Boulton, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at HDS, explores ways in which Christian worship founds and forms Christian life. This exploration draws together his interests in the history and practices of...

In 2010, HDS students Willie Francois and Helen Kim were named ministry fellows by the Fund for Theological Education (FTE), an honor bestowed on young leaders who demonstrate exceptional gifts for ministry. FTE fellows are selected by a national...

I write at perhaps the most challenging moment of our lifetimes, as our society reels from global pandemic, economic collapse, and social unrest. We have all been affected. Many in the HDS community are on the front lines as activists, caregivers, and...

The modern environmental movement was born 51 years ago when millions of people took part in protests and rallies in streets, parks, auditoriums, and on college campuses as part of the first-ever Earth Day. Yet today, as species continue to face...

Some of us might feel guilty about grieving, especially if we haven’t actually lost someone to COVID-19. But as we are all grieving the lost rhythms of our daily lives as well as our feelings of familiarity and safety, gratitude can help us build...

As U.S. deputy secretary of state from 1985 to 1989, the investor, diplomat, and philanthropist John Whitehead saw that religion was the thread that connected many of the diplomatic challenges he faced around the world. He believed deeply in the...

Kerry Maloney is HDS chaplain and director of religious and spiritual life at HDS. On January 29, she delivered the homily at HDS’s weekly Tuesday Morning Eucharist. Below are her remarks. ♦♦♦ “Here I am, Lord…I come to do your will.”—Psalm 40: 7-8 The...

Kevin Madigan, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at HDS and a historian of medieval Christian religious practice and thought, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on March 6. ♦♦♦ The first reading is from...