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For the second half of the twentieth century, HDS professor C. Conrad Wright, who died February 17, 2011, was the preeminent scholar of American Unitarianism and an inspiring mentor to both ministers and historians. On October 26, 2011, a group of...

With a heavy heart, I write to let you know that François Bovon, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion Emeritus at HDS, passed away Friday night (Nov. 1) peacefully in Aubonne, Switzerland, after a long illness. François was associated with HDS...

Each year, Harambee: Students of African Descent at HDS organizes a series of special events to commemorate Black History Month (BHM). This February, Harambee again offers several opportunities for those within the Harvard community, as well as our...

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council established the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors in 2013 to celebrate the outstanding contributions that HDS alumni make to their fields, and to society, across the broad spectrum of professions and vocations that HDS...

Whittney Barth graduated from HDS on May 26 with a master of divinity degree. Below, she describes how her life has been impacted by her experience at HDS, offers some advice for incoming students, and discusses her future plans. I was originally...

On November 7, 2013, David N. Hempton, Dean of Harvard Divinity School, and Stephen Prothero, Professor of Religion at Boston University, spoke about the importance of religious literacy and why government leaders and educators should not ignore the...

Wesley J. Wildman, Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at Boston University, presented the second and final comparative theology lecture of the 2013–14 academic year at the Center for Study of World Religions. Traditional natural theology...

Although Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program has long welcomed scholars from abroad and scholars with international research interests, this year's WSRP research associates are an especially seasoned group of world travelers...

The once prevalent suggestion that religious thinkers and scientific scholars cannot truly engage in meaningful discourse has been mostly reduced to a moot point. Take, for example, two recent MTS graduates from Harvard Divinity School, Mara Block and...

In 1871, Thomas Nast drew an editorial cartoon about Catholic immigration to the United States. Entitled "The American River Ganges," it depicts bishops as crocodiles emerging from the ocean on all fours, scales on their backs and mitres transformed into...

This discussion took place during the 2003 Dean's Weekend. BILL GRAHAM: Our second panel takes up our question and moves it a little bit further in discussing the encounter with religion in the modern university. We have a group that's going to bring a...

In February of 1926, Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard-education historian, had a very specific goal in mind when he established what was then called Negro History Week. He hoped, as time went along, that Black history would be recognized as so entrenched in...