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In December 1815, President John T. Kirkland, appealed for support of the “best and noblest cause, which human benevolence is permitted to advance”: the education of ministers at Harvard University. His letter to the School’s alumni described society’s...

Harvard Divinity School Professor Harvey Cox delivers the talk, "Whatever Happened to Secularization?" during HDS's bicentennial celebration and alumni reunion. Listen

Kevin Madigan has been Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity at Harvard Divinity School since 2000. His specialty is high-medieval scholastic biblical exegesis and theology, which is the topic of his most recent book, Olivi and the...

In a nation clearly so divided as the United States these days —politically, socially, culturally —how do we fight for our beliefs at an urgent moment without ostracizing those who old other views? That’s the question distinguished journalist and author E...

Dean David N. Hempton, the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies and John Lord O’Brian Professor of Divinity, delivered the sermon during Sunday Services at Memorial Church on October 4, 2015. Below is his sermon, as...

Thomas (Tal) A. Lewis has been Assistant Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School since 2003. His book Freedom and Tradition in Hegel: Reconsidering Anthropology, Ethics, and Religion was published in 2005 by University of Notre Dame...

Divinity Hall was rededicated, 174 years after its original dedication, with a celebration that took place in front of one of Harvard Divinity School's oldest buildings. Amidst the anxieties, toils, pleasures, dissipations, and competitions of life, in...

In a short Q&A, HDS student Zac Dutton talks about his involvement in the Friends at HDS group, his research on social conflict, and the interfaith community at the Divinity School. Could you provide a brief introduction to the Friends at HDS student...

Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS ’84, is the first United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council. When she came to Harvard Divinity School in the early 1980s, she suspected that public policy work might be in...

After teaching in the Department of Theology at Loyola University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin, and in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, Charles Hallisey joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School in 2007 as the...

"We at Harvard must be a model. . . . It is true that the climate change and the challenge of sustainability are global problems. But climate change is also a local problem. Solving it begins with each of us. Every person at Harvard—student, faculty...

Damaris S. Parsitau, Women's Studies in Religion Program 2018-19 Research Associate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 12, 2019.