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Jalane Schmidt could hear the chants across the street from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Charlottesville, Virginia on the night of August 11, 2017. “Blood and soil!” the torch-bearing marchers shouted as they gathered in front of a statue of Thomas...

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...

"Forests think." Eduardo Kohn, author of the book How Forests Think, discusses a kind of thinking, which he calls “sylvan," that is manifested by tropical forests and those that live with them. This mode of thought can provide an ethical orientation in...

Panelists Mara Willard, Jay Williams, Josslyn Luckett, and HDS professors Stephanie Paulsell and David Carrasco spoke on December 6 as part of the series "Have Mercy: The Religious Dimensions of the Writings of Toni Morrison." Toni Morrison, the Robert F...

This lecture is a womanist critique of a longstanding racist campaign of domestic terror in the United States. It investigated the intersectionality of racism, in particular the racist acts condoned by religious communities and by the health care system...

On February 1, Bill George, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, presented "The Role of Your Faith in Global Capitalism: Does It Have a Place?" The talk, held at the Harvard Faculty Club in...

The Sultan of Sokoto is the religious leader of Nigeria’s Muslim community, which consists of approximately half of the country's nearly 160 million inhabitants, and of millions of Muslims in adjoining countries in West Africa. He serves Nigeria as...

At morning exercises in Harvard Yard on May 25, graduating MTS student Walter Smelt III spoke on behalf of Harvard graduate students on recognizing the limits of knowledge and engaging with the wider world. ♦♦♦ To get into Harvard’s Widener Library, you...

In July 2000, when the Right Rev. Vashti McKenzie was elected the first female bishop in the 213-year history of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, her reaction made national headlines. "The stained-glass ceiling has been pierced and broken,"...

It may be at Georgetown University or at the Library of Congress. It may be at a day school in Bethesda, Maryland, or on a basketball court in Washington, D.C. But there is a good chance that, at a given point during a day, Sam Potolicchio is teaching. A...

In 1815, the Reverend William Ellery Channing laid out a vision for the graduates of the institution that would become Harvard Divinity School. In a fundraising circular written over the signature of Harvard President John T. Kirkland, Channing wrote that...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology of Religion and WSRP Research Associate Sarah Bracke recently discussed her study of a Catholic Renewal women's group in Milan, Italy in 2000. Bracke, who is also an associate professor of the...