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As the spring term draws to a close, three HDS students discuss their favorite courses of the semester.

Harvard Divinity School today announced the appointment of the first Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, a new chair that will be at the center of the School's work to educate the religious leaders of the future. Dean...

Lowell Livezey of the University of Illinois, Chicago, is the Visiting Luce Lecturer on Urban Ministry at Harvard Divinity School this Spring. He is teaching two courses this semester, "Religious Agency in the Metropolis" and the Urban Ministry Seminar...

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...

With Thanksgiving around the corner, HDS students, faculty, and staff share what they are grateful for.

David Hempton made these remarks following Harvard President Drew Faust's introduction of him as the next Dean of Harvard Divinity School at a reception at HDS on March 30, 2012. My thanks to President Faust for this very generous introduction. It's a...

On the 203rd anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth, Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) have announced the completion of funding for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Professorship...

Believing that a month should be dedicated to the celebration and teaching of gay and lesbian history, Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, gathered other educators and community leaders to discuss the issue in 1994. The group selected October...

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...

Students and religious leaders explored the intersection of religion and environmentalism at a conference held Friday at HDS.

Chris Berlin is a counselor to Buddhist students and Instructor in Ministry and Pastoral Counseling at HDS. He is part of a musical group consisting of several HDS alumni and students called Satigata. The group, formed at HDS, recently released an album...

In her Harvard Divinity School Convocation address, HDS Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura S. Nasrallah recalled her efforts studying a Greek mosaic and her pondering the sometimes obscurity of her work. "I wondered: Was I a...