Boston Marathon

Harvard Divinity School hosted a discussion on May 7 featuring some of Harvard's top scholars on religious conflict and interfaith peace-building in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. Christopher Lydon, award-winning journalist and host of Radio...

Harvard analysts, scholars discuss how the attack affects us all.

HDS student Chris Lisee writes on how faith communities in Boston are responding to the violence that occurred at the Boston Marathon.

Harvard Divinity School has collected some thoughts and analysis from faculty, students, and colleagues relevant to the April 15 attack in Boston. Our hope is that these works give perspective on the events, bring the HDS community together, and/or...

Eerie puffs of smoke, loud bangs, screaming people, bloodied bodies, and debris-strewn sidewalks, followed almost immediately by remarkable acts of courage and compassion. This was Boston on Marathon Monday, April 15. I was reminded of another city and...

HDS alumnus Bill Bradford on his experience at the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15.

A panel at HDS probed religion's place in cruelties, such as the Boston Marathon bombings.

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...

In July 2013, HDS Dean David N. Hempton received an honorary doctorate of literature from Queen's University Belfast, his undergraduate alma mater, where he later returned as a lecturer in modern history. In front of Queen's faculty, staff, and students...