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The following personal reflection was written by MDiv candidate Alexa Klein-Mayer. It was still dark when we gathered, 10 hours earlier than our normal class time on a chilly November morning. It may have seemed unusual to be boarding a bus, blurry-eyed...

Brad S. Gregory, Professor of History and Dorothy G. Griffin Collegiate Chair at the University of Notre Dame, delivered a lecture titled “The Reformation Era and the Unintended Secularization of Western Society.” Audio Listen on iTunes or via SoundCloud...

Charles Stang, HDS Professor of Early Christian Thought, discusses his recent publication, Our Divine Double. Gregory Shaw (Stonehill College) and Benjamin Dunning (Fordham University) serve as respondents. Listen on SoundCloud

HDS Professor Todne Thomas and Columbia University Professor Courtney Bender c onsider the big destructive events or scenes associated with the end times with more subtle infrastructural degradations, moral shifts from government to citizen, deregulation...

Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions held a discussion titled “What is Psychedelic Chaplaincy?”, the purpose of which was to explore the role that spiritual caregivers might play among those seeking and undergoing psychedelic...

Jill Abramson, AB ’76, lecturer at Harvard University and former executive editor of The New York Times delivers the keynote address at the 2016 Dean’s Leadership Forum. Read ‘ Jill Abramson on the ‘Calling’ of Journalism’ Listen iTunes SoundCloud

Professor Frank Clooney, the CSWR director, writes about nearing the end of a month-long visit to Melbourne and the Australian Catholic University, where he once again was a visiting research scholar and a kind of academic consultant in the Institute for...

Sound Education was a 3-day event at Harvard University for educational and academic podcasters and radio hosts, and their listeners. It was hosted by Ministry of Ideas, a podcast based at Harvard Divinity School (HDS). Learn more about the event here...

Annemarie Schimmel, Professor Emerita of Indo-Muslim Culture in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, died on Sunday, January 26, in a hospital in Bonn, Germany, at the age of 80. Professor Schimmel, a world-renowned scholar of Islam...

Scholars Mohsen Goudarzi and Terenjit Sevea have each been named Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Sevea’s appointment is effective July 1, 2020, while Goudarzi’s appointment is effective July 1, 2021. Sevea is currently...

Professor Alexander Samely (University of Manchester) discusses new tools in analyzing ancient Jewish texts, including a database of comparative profiles of ancient Jewish texts.

On April 30, 2009, His Holiness the Dalai Lama delivered a talk, "Educating the Heart" to an audience in Memorial Church at Harvard University. The event was co-sponsored with the Harvard Graduate School of Education.