Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity, Professor of Comparative Theology, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 15, 2022.

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Nahuatl Notequixpoyohuan (“My Nahuatl Friends”) is housed at Harvard Divinity School and supported by the Harvard University Native American Program and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Some students in the group, now in its second semester, want to reclaim their roots and culture. Some are researchers who need Nahuatl to use primary sources left by scribes.

Harvard Divinity School, which offers aid equivalent to 75 percent of tuition, full tuition, or tuition plus a living stipend, will increase the latter for those eligible to $12,000 in the next academic year, up from $8,000 for international and undocumented students and $9,000 for domestic ones.

The Reverend Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at HDS, and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 13, 2022.

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Experts, including former extremists, discussed efforts to counter hate groups and extremist violence at a panel at Harvard Divinity School on Monday.

Each year, the HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) recognizes exceptional graduates and one non-alumni Friend of the School with the Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honors. The award, given in memory of the late Reverend Gomes, celebrates community members whose excellence in life, work, and service pays homage to the mission and values of HDS.

... Read more about ​​​​​​​Natural Leaders: HDS Recognizes Community Members Who Explore Connections between Nature and Human Flourishing with the 2022 Gomes Honors

Join us in witnessing and celebrating the inaugural cohort of Master of Religion and Public Life candidates as they present their final projects that engage the complexity of religion within their vocations. 

The Reverend Dan Smith, MDiv '98, Lecturer on Ministry, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 11, 2022.

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"There's this narrative that the modern world killed God. Actually the modern world keeps creating new ones," says Anna Della Subin, MTS '10.

HDS Professor Charles Stang explains the commonplace belief of the “divine twin” in early Christian texts and how it has survived in various forms throughout the centuries.

"For environmentalists today, the Forest Festivals are both an inspiring model of movement building and a reminder that we cannot save the planet without the commitment of ordinary people," writes HDS faculty member Dan McKanan.

The Reverend Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at HDS, and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 8, 2022.

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Kennedy School lecturer Marshall L. Ganz and Rutgers University associate professor Noura Erakat discussed power and decolonization in Palestine and Israel in a virtual conversation hosted by the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at HDS.

“I’m doing what’s in the best interest not only of what we believe God is calling us to do but also in the best interest of the people that are in need. Sometimes that means making a decision that goes against business practices for the better good of the people as well as this community," said Willie Bodrick II, MDiv '14.

As his first year as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church nears its close, Matthew Ichihashi Potts — who also serves as the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School — reflected on his time as minister in an interview with The Crimson last week.

The Reverend Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at HDS, and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 6, 2022.

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Katherine Collins, MTS '11, studied biomimicry—the idea of looking to nature to solve complex problems—and brought these concepts to Putnam Investments as the company’s first head of sustainable investing.

Cheyenne Boon, MDiv '23, Seminarian, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 1, 2022.

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Rahina Muazu is Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies and Islam and an HDS WSRP Research Associate for 2021–22. This semester, she is teaching the course, "Gender, Islam and Debates surrounding Female Vocal Nudity in West Africa (Nigeria and Niger)."

The Reverend Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at HDS, and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on March 30, 2022.

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Stephany Semones, MTS '08, opened Pink Regalia, a luxury lingerie boutique that offers beautiful undergarments for women of all ages but also specializes in products for individuals who have undergone mastectomy and lumpectomy surgeries, among other procedures. 

Taurean J. Webb, 2021-22 Fellow in Conflict and Peace with the Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative at HDS, presented a collaborative art exhibition called “Ye Shall Inherit the Earth & Faces of the Divine” at a virtual event sponsored by the Religion and Public Life.

Professor Jon D. Levenson explores the question "What would be lost theologically by discarding troubling parts of the Bible?"

Ruth Foster, MDiv '22, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on March 29, 2022.

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In a conversation sponsored by the Transcendence and Transformation initiative of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Jack Hunter, a Welsh author and anthropologist who studies consciousness, religion, ecology, and the paranormal, discussed his academic work and his own supernatural experiences with Giovanna Parmigiani, a lecturer on religion and cultural anthropology at the Divinity School and a scholar of contemporary paganisms.

Madeline Bugeau-Heartt, MDiv '24, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on March 28, 2022.

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"Love doesn't turn away. Love doesn't sit still. And it doesn't stop trying to welcome the disinherited home. It gets up, and it goes," said the The Reverend Matthew Ichihashi Potts, PhD, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, HDS Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, during a sermon at the Memorial Church.

Professor Stephanie Paulsell writes that she and her students are finding their way into the world again with Evagrius, Teresa of Ávila, and Howard Thurman.

Swasti Bhattacharyya is Visiting Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies and Ethics and an HDS WSRP Research Associate for 2021–22. In fall 2021, she taught the HDS course, “Ecofeminism, Religion, and Ethics: Reorienting Our Lives.”... Read more about Research Associate Swasti Bhattacharyya on ‘Radical Inclusive Love’

Harvard Divinity School's statement on “Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging” declares that theological training at the school is “vibrant” with an energy that will guide students to “unlearn and heal” the vices planted in them by society and thereby allow them “to flourish and feel a deep sense of belonging.”