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Frank Clooney had a busy sabbatical year. In 2013, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and director of HDS's Center for the Study of World Religions published his latest book, His Hiding Place is Darkness, which “explores the uncertainties of love and faith...

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton has been awarded the Albert C. Outler Prize by the American Society of Church History for his recent book, The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century (I.B. Tauris, 2011). The award is presented to the author of...

The people who confronted white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia last Saturday drew on a truth that is more powerful than hate and a faith that the end of the story is not violence but love and life and their persistent victory. This is a dark...

Erez Golan, MTS '16, was selected by his student colleagues as the class speaker for HDS Commencement 2016. The following remarks were delivered by Golan at the Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 26. When I completed my undergraduate degree in Israel, we...

The 2015 recipients of Harvard Divinity School's Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors include a diplomat, a chaplain, an activist, an advisor, and a scholar. While these individuals—and their professions—may seem disparate, Dean David N. Hempton says...

This feature was written by Tajay Bongsa, Odalis Garcia, Nicole Morris, Nicholas J. Scrimenti, Kayla J. Smith, and Hope Williams of the Religions and the Practice of Peace team. It started with a song, "Celebrate Good Times." Everyone got up on their feet...

Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and director of the Pluralism Project, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on March 6, 2020. ♦♦♦

Members of the Faculty of Divinity are expressing doubts about the prospect of a U.S. military strike in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's reported use of chemical weapons on the country's civilian population. Ahmed Ragab, William Graham, and...

This discussion took place during the 2003 Dean's Weekend. BILL GRAHAM: Our second panel takes up our question and moves it a little bit further in discussing the encounter with religion in the modern university. We have a group that's going to bring a...

It is with great sadness that we learned of the recent passing of John Whitehead, a member of the HDS Dean's Council, honorary chair of the Campaign for HDS, and a great friend to the School for more than a generation. John was not an alumnus of HDS—he...

Last month I visited Paris over spring break, partly on school business and partly to visit some of the sights in one of my favorite cities. I made a pilgrimage to the Montparnasse cemetery to visit its beautiful Jewish section, and the graves of...

Artist and author Rachel Sussman shares her physical, intellectual, and spiritual journey around the world and through time-space. FULL TRANSCRIPT: [MUSIC PLAYING] All right, thank you so much. So good evening and welcome to the Center for the Study of...