"I think the relationship is on life support, and people of good faith are working to try to solve the problem and to heal the shattered fragments of the relationship," says HDS Professor Terrence Johnson of the relationship between Black and Jewish communities.
“I never thought that I would get into Harvard Divinity School. I still remember the morning I received my online acceptance letter. I had just woken up, unlocked my phone in spite of my blurry vision, and saw that I had an update on my application status. Thinking I had surely been rejected, I quickly checked my application only to see virtual confetti sprinkle across my screen and over my acceptance letter. I immediately told my parents the good news, and we were all thrilled.”
Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History and interim dean of HDS, traces Christmas celebrations' path from wild revelry through Puritan’s progress to Hallmark holiday.
This lecture was given by Jessica J. Fowler (University of Montana Western), who is an HDS Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Catholicism on her work, "Illuminating the Empire: The Spanish Inquisition and the Spread of Global Heresy."
“What’s remarkable is how much evidence has survived systematic attempts to erase women from history and with them the warrants and models for women’s leadership. The evidence presented here is but the tip of an iceberg,” said Professor Karen King.
The Constellation Project is pleased to announce the publication of our second “Prayer Book,” by HDS student Morgan Curtis. “The Decolonial Dames of America,” is a landmark essay about the importance of ancestral repair work needed to be taken by the white descendants of oppressors to cultivate the soil of healing. This event featured a reading by Morgan Curtis in conversation with Melissa Bartholomew, associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., reports back after he spent five weeks in India this summer keeping his "eyes and ears wide open," and on the 50th anniversary of his landing in India in 1973 on his way to teach in Nepal.
Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at the Harvard Divinity School led a online conversation with the 2022-23 Yang Visiting Scholars, Dr. Heather Mellquist Lehto, and Dr. Ashok Kumar Mocherla. This conversation showed us how perspectives on the global scene might confirm, yet also challenge, how we think about Christianity and the study of Christianity here in the United States.... Read more about Video: World Christianity, Christianity in the West: Continuities and Differences