Interfaith

Ashley Clements graduated with a master of divinity degree in May 2016. She will begin a hospital chaplain residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston this fall and is pursuing ordination as an interfaith chaplain.

Mushfiqur Rahman Chowdhury is studying religion, ethics, and politics at HDS. He has a passion for peacebuilding, and last summer he worked as a counselor for Seeds of Peace, helping Jewish and Muslim youth engage in interfaith dialogue, healing, and...

HDS student Sana Saeed grew up in England and has lived in the United States, Pakistan, and Japan, where she centered her research on peacebuilding and religious freedom. Sana is passionate about community organizing and working with youth.

Betsee Parker's single-minded focus on service has been in evidence throughout her life, but perhaps never more so than on September 11, 2001. She and her late husband were in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan when the first plane hit...

On March 22, 2016, explosions in the main airport and a metro station in Brussels killed 31 people and left 300 wounded. The Islamic State claimed responsibility. In the aftermath of the attacks, during three days of national mourning in Belgium, there...

Monday, August 31, was an auspicious day at Harvard Divinity School. It was not only our Convocation, the formal opening of the new academic year, but also, at the start of 2015-16, a step closer to the actual bicentennial of the School. It was also an...

Following the sentencing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., writes that the act of forgiving is deeply rooted in some religious traditions.

The statistics are nearly too jarring to be true: globally, one-third of women report being physically or sexually abused by an intimate partner, according to the United States Department of Justice. Another one-third of all female homicide victims are...

On September 16, an ecumenical group of 10 Boston-area Christians, including several HDS students, drove to New York City in two cramped hatchbacks to attend the first day of the Occupy Wall Street protest. Most of us had not met each other until that...

In a short Q&A, recent HDS graduate Lucia Ruth Hulsether, MDiv '14, discusses the impact of her experiences at HDS, her work on interfaith engagement, and the meaning of "community" at HDS. What were you doing before you came to HDS? I came directly to...