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“I always try to show the beauty of Islam through my actions and not just my words. If, for example, I’m fighting against gender inequality, I show people how Islam has given equality to men and women. If I’m talking about anti-racist discourse, then I...

Kimberly Blockett was a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin when her thesis director, Nellie McKay, encouraged her to read a spiritual narrative from 1846 written by Zilpha Elaw, a free black woman who travelled up and down the East Coast of the...

Asked how HDS professors Catherine Brekus and David Holland came to co-teach "Narratives of American Religion: The Canon and Its Revisions," Brekus said the decision to collaborate was made quickly. "David said, 'That sounds like a fun course,' and I said...

For a week in late January 2010, five Harvard Divinity School students witnessed firsthand the impact of human rights abuses suffered by many Hondurans after the 2009 coup, in which the former Honduran president, Manuel Zelya, was ousted by the country's...

HDS Convocation was held Thursday, August 30, 2012, on the Campus Green. New Dean David N. Hempton drew on the memory of violence he witnessed in Northern Ireland to offer hopeful visions for the future. Kevin J. Madigan, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical...

Gazan architect Salem al Qudwa, 2020-21 Fellow in Conflict and Peace at HDS, and contributor to a new book called Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope, has developed a green, flexible, and affordable model for self-built homes in Gaza. They are designed to be...

"Journalism is a public service, a calling," said Jill Abramson, AB '76, journalist and former executive editor of The New York Times, during the keynote address at the annual HDS Dean's Leadership Forum. It was the unfolding of the Watergate scandal on...

"As we stand with those women at the open, empty tomb, may we feel our desire for resurrection and its transformations rising within us. And may we be brave enough to take up the story where they left off, brave enough to resist going back to the way...

The 2018 Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial honorees speak for the final installment of this year’s Divinity Dialogues. The panelists were: Robert Michael Franklin, MDiv '78; Jalane D. Schmidt, MDiv '96, AM '05, PhD '05; Simran Jeet Singh, MTS '08; Karen I...

His Eminence Alhaji Muhammadu Sa'adu Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto, was the featured speaker. Convened by Jacob Olupona, Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School, with a joint appointment as Professor of African and African...

Constructive theologian and former chemical engineer Mayra Rivera has been named Assistant Professor of Theology and Latina/o Studies at Harvard Divinity School. She will join the HDS faculty July 1, 2010. Since 2006, Rivera has served as Assistant...

It was the mid-1970s and, after one year at Harvard Divinity School, Margaret Rose still had not found her calling. She had a passion for theology and for social justice, but wasn’t convinced that a career as a religious leader was for her, so she went...