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For over 20 years, January 16th has been recognized annually in the United States as Religious Freedom Day. Diane Moore and Dudley Rose discuss religious freedom as a principle based not on shared ancestry, culture, or faith but on a shared commitment to...

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...

Religious traditions insist on the importance of cultivating our faculty of attention, whether it be attention to ourselves, others, our environment, or the presence of the divine in any of these three. This panel will explore whether and how the practice...

"The classroom atmosphere is vibrant, the professors are some of the best in the world, and the field education experience is transformative." Upali Sramon, a 2013–14 Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Scholar with the Buddhist Ministry Program, discusses...

The bombs went off about an hour after Chris Lisee, MTS '13, finished the 2013 Boston Marathon; after his parents, aunt, and fiancée—all up from New Jersey to cheer him on—wrapped him in their arms and a foil blanket to keep him warm; after his legs...

by Colleen Walsh, Harvard Gazette Harvard Divinity School Dean David Hempton knows too well the cost of religious conflict. As a college student in Belfast in the 1970s, he witnessed the 'tragedies of violence' that marked 'The Troubles' between the...

It was the Rev. Jonathan Walton's first trip to the Mamelodi township, an area ravaged by AIDS, poverty, and crime just outside Pretoria, South Africa. But it won't be his last. "This was just the beginning of what plans to be an annual trip for me," said...

Laura Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at HDS, has long been interested in the ways the ancient letters of the Apostle Paul provide evidence of the interaction between Jews and Gentiles in the ancient world. One of the pressing...

Zen master Dogen said "Enlightenment is the intimacy of all things." Kittisaro and Thanissara, former Buddhist monastics and longtime meditation teachers, reflect on how to live from this reality in a world increasingly divided and threatened by climate...

Where do our ideas about how the economy works, and our views on economic policy, come from? Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets, among economists as well as many ordinary citizens, is a form of religion. The...

This panel discussion of "The Religion of White Rage" was held November 2 with the book’s three editors, as part of the Center for the Study of World Religion's series on “Race, Religion, and Nationalism.” This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white...

From all of us at HDS, we wish you a season of light. 2016 Seasons of Light