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Tom Chappell is a living advertisement for doing well by doing good. By placing a commitment to social responsibility and to the environment at the center of his business, the HDS graduate, MTS '91, built Tom's of Maine into one of the nation's leading...

Professor Charlie Stang, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, talks about how he formed his Christian identity, discovering his love of Ashkenazi food, and the challenge of finding good babka in Israel.

Early in September of 2001, Milia Islam was already anticipating a tough transition in coming to a big northeastern city such as Boston after having lived most of her life in a small Missouri town (Fulton, population 10,000), and in undertaking a Harvard...

Eliza Griswold has traveled the world researching conflicts. Over the summer, The New York Times Magazine published her article " Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East?" For her first book, The Tenth Parallel, she spent years traveling in...

“My mission in life is to understand how religion can be a vehicle for peace in the world—well, one of my two missions. My other mission in life is to ‘help out anyone that needs it.’”— Hope Williams, MTS '20

When I told colleagues at Oxfam that I needed time off to go to Harvard Divinity School, they responded with raised eyebrows. After all, I'm a senior executive in a large global organization that rarely, if ever, talks about religion and spirituality...

by Jonathan Beasley jbeasley@hds.harvard.edu 617.496.6004 His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto, will make his first visit to Harvard University on October 2–3, 2011. He will deliver the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi...

Religion can help drive real-world, grassroots organizing, panelists say.

An intimate discussion at the Center for the Study of World Religions examined the intersection of art and faith.

The fifth and final post on the Quran by Francis X. Clooney, S.J., HDS professor and director of the Center for the Study of World Religions

After studying religion at Harvard, new grad Haley Curtin plans to "effect bigger change" in the world outside of Cambridge.

The following reflection was written by Father Pishoy Salama, priest in the Coptic Orthodox Church and resident fellow at Harvard Divinity School during the 2019 fall semester. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it...