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“If I’m not getting better, then I’m stagnating, and if I’m stagnating, what’s the point? So I have to be pushing myself, questioning who I am. Hinduism to me is finding my dharma through a process of self-improvement.”—Abhijith Ravinutala, MTS ’19

“It’s rare for a divinity school to have such a diverse group of people,” says Israel Buffardi, MDiv '19, of HDS. “[It allows for] building community with all different types of people and finding connections with each other and the values in their lives...

In this issue: The Varieties of an HDS Experience; A Message From the Dean; News From Around the School; Not Knowing What to Expect, Diving in Headfirst; In Troubled Times, Offering Safe Haven Download this issue

Ralph DeFlorio, director of operations at HDS, and Munjed Murad, ThD candidate and Junior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religion, discuss the intersection of sustainability and religion. Murad is a panelist at "Spiritual and Sustainable...

The Choice, a play by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, will have its world premiere in a staged reading at 8 pm Sunday, April 12, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. It is directed by HDS postdoctoral fellow Guila Clara Kessous.

Shane Snowdon, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 25, 2019.

"Literature offers me joy and the ability to exercise empathy. It’s a lot easier to practice empathy when it’s a character in a book and then when you run into a situation in the real world, it feels almost like you’ve practiced for that encounter."...

"Me being a hip hop artist ties into the dissemination aspect of my academic interests because I think historically hip hop and rap has been the means by which analytic critics have been able to compose their observations into songs that are received by...

The customary pomp and circumstance associated with Commencement at Harvard was on full display during HDS Commencement activities, May 29-30. Below, view images of the days' events. Photos: Justin Knight Photos from the event can be viewed through the...

On the second day of the " Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture" conference, speakers at the plenary panel were Michelle Velez, Lauren O’Brien, Hisham Moharram, Sebastian Kretschmer, Joan Armon, Chara Armon. Read ' Recalling The Spirit of Sustainable...

About one in four women have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime. However, battering is far from being a recent phenomenon, and the historical and contemporary Christian narratives of battering often...

Read about the latest news and publications from Harvard Divinity School faculty members. Cheryl A. Giles, Francis Greenwood Peabody Professor of the Practice in Pastoral Care and Counseling, presented 'Self, Other, and Culture in Psychoanalysis' in a...