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US Official Calls Religious Intolerance in India 'Frightening'

July 18, 2023

"U.S. advocacy for religious freedom must be conflict-sensitive, so as not to render already vulnerable communities more vulnerable nor exacerbate religious dimensions of conflict," Susan Hayward, associate director of the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative, said while testifying before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.

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How Family History Can Inspire Accountable Reparations and Foster Ancestral Healing

March 6, 2023
On Monday, February 13, 2023, Harvard Divinity School hosted an event, featuring HDS Professor Dan McKanan, on legacies of slavery at HDS as seen through stories of the School’s founders and early students. Following the event, Morgan Curtis and Emily Chaudhari, MTS candidates, sat down together to talk about it.
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Religious Literacy in International Affairs

November 16, 2022
Susan Hayward, associate director of the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative at HDS, leads a conversation on religious literacy in international affairs for the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Could the U.S. Government Take Nonviolence Seriously?

September 3, 2021
“Baked into the international system and into diplomacy, especially in the West, is a great deal of simplistic and often biased thinking about religion,” said Susan Hayward, associate director of the religious literacy and the professions initiative at HDS.
Dean David N. Hempton and Drew Faust, Harvard President Emerita and 2021 Gomes Honoree

Divinity Dialogues: President Emerita Drew Faust in Conversation with Dean Hempton

July 20, 2021

This week, we conclude our Divinity Dialogues Gomes Award podcast series with a reflective conversation between Dean Hempton and our 2021 Gomes Friend of the School honoree, Drew Gilpin Faust.

Faust holds several titles, including President Emerita of Harvard University and Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor. She has also been a longtime partner and advocate for the Divinity School and was recognized as this year’s Friend of the School for her humane leadership, guided by a profound commitment to collaboration and an unflinching attention to the past in service of a...

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