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All Things are Subtly Interconnected

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Abhijith Ravinutala, MTS candidate, delivered the following remarks during a Spirituality and Mental Health Advocacy session on October 15, 2018. ♦♦♦ I have spent enough time at Harvard Divinity School now to know that there are a few general ways of...

Q&A with Matthew Boulton

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In his teaching and research, Matthew Myer Boulton, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at HDS, explores ways in which Christian worship founds and forms Christian life. This exploration draws together his interests in the history and practices of...

The Last Sermon

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I arrived at the church 15 minutes late. This was a bad omen for the rest of the afternoon—or so I thought. I had gotten lost, very lost, but I was not without direction. The young attendant seated behind the counter of a gas station on Route 66 had done...

Advice to the Incoming Class

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HDS welcomed scores of new graduate students to campus during Orientation, which kicked off the week of August 24. The 2015-16 incoming class includes approximately 120 students who represent about 20 religious traditions. They come from 32 states and...

The Wisdom of God’s Kingdom in a Time of Discord

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The election, inauguration, and first days of President Donald Trump have deepened divisions between the nation’s political parties and its people. Many, afraid and angry, wonder how to respond in the years ahead. We could all do worse than revisit Jesus’...

Embracing Varieties of Religious Experience

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In 1816, when Harvard Divinity School was established, its founders aimed to ensure that “every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial, and unbiased investigation of Christian truth.” Two hundred years later, HDS has expanded its mission. With...

Q&A With Jocelyne Cesari: Islam and Democracy

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Jocelyne Cesari was Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at HDS for the 2004-05 academic year and has served as a research associate in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University since spring 2001. Her book When Islam and...

Video: Anne E. Monius Memorial Service

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HDS faculty and friends remembered Professor Anne E. Monius during a memorial service on October 11, 2019. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, passed away on August 3, 2019. FULL TRANSCRIPT: [INDIAN MUSIC PLAYING] Good...

The Holocaust and Horror at the Border

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In light of reports of migrant deaths and inhumane conditions for children, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. took to social media last week to criticize U.S. immigration policy, comparing the country's detention centers to "concentration camps."...

HDS Students and Staff Minister to Ground Zero Workers

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It wasn't a typical, carefree spring-break trip. Rather than focusing on their own "r & r," five Harvard Divinity School students, one alumna, and two staff members decided to give comfort to Ground Zero site workers for two days during their March break...

Student Profile: Milia Islam

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Early in September of 2001, Milia Islam was already anticipating a tough transition in coming to a big northeastern city such as Boston after having lived most of her life in a small Missouri town (Fulton, population 10,000), and in undertaking a Harvard...

Exclusion or God’s Plan?

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On Monday, June 23, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) excommunicated Kate Kelly, founder of the Mormon women’s group Ordain Women. In its decision, the all-male panel wrote that Kelly had "persisted in an aggressive effort to persuade...