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On Thursday, September 10, a jubilant event will celebrate Harvey Cox's retirement as Hollis Professor of Divinity after 44 years of teaching at Harvard Divinity School and Harvard College. The Hollis Chair is the oldest endowed chair in American higher...

Amidst the burdens placed on the healthcare system in the U.S. by COVID-19 , chaplains in hospitals and healthcare centers are facing a new learning curve: how to “show up” for patients when physical distancing is crucial for all who enter into public...

Gordon Dester Kaufman, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, died on Friday, July 22, at age 86. A member of the Faculty of Divinity since 1963, Kaufman was a renowned liberal theologian whose research...

Scholars, students, and educators discuss the challenges, insights, and questions of training for Buddhist ministry at the Buddhist Ministry Initiative's recent conference, "Education and Buddhist Ministry: Whither—and Why?" The conference, funded by the...

On a warm October afternoon, 50 students, faculty, and staff members from the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) convened at the HDS Community Garden, located on an 800-square-foot plot behind the Center for the Study of World Religions. The gathering featured...

On August 31, legendary professor Harvey Cox delivered the 2015 Convocation address. Titled "The Babylonian Captivity of Theology," Cox encouraged his fellow faculty members and Harvard Divinity School graduate students to be troublemakers. If theology is...

Dean William A. Graham delivered the keynote address at the 2012 HDS Leadership Day, held on March 30. Leadership Day is a celebration for Harvard Divinity School leadership-level supporters and volunteers, including members of the Dean's, Leadership, and...

His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa discusses ordination of Tibetan women with faculty and students of the Buddhist Studies program at HDS. The conversation was moderated by Janet Gyatso, HDS Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for...

HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. Favorite Class...

Harvard Divinity School professors have long taught ethics in the Yard. Beginning early in the 1880s, as HDS pioneered the analysis of "social problems" using the case method, Francis Peabody taught an undergraduate course on urban ills. Students called...

They've been carefully painted around and deliberately smeared, they've faded with time and been sporadically (and amateurishly) touched up. They've lost bits as plaster has dried and cracked and fallen away, and they've been partially covered up by...

His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, spoke to a capacity crowd at Harvard's Memorial Church on Thursday, March 26. The Karmapa's talk, "Caring for Life on Earth in the Twenty-first Century," was sponsored by HDS, the Harvard...