“I came to religious life with the question of what was meaningful about existence,” said Brahmacharini Durga, a monastic in ...

David Holden, MDiv '24, came to HDS after a career in politics in search of ways to help others heal as a hospital chaplain.

B. Beltane: The final fertility festival, celebrating the Earth’s fecundity and anticipating the power of the sun and the Earth in summer.(Wicca/Paganism) Birth of the Bab: The anniversary of the ...

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Harvard Divinity School is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that educates students both in the pursuit of the academic study of religion and in preparation for leadership in ...

You're listening to the Harvard Religion Beat, and my name is Paul Gillis-Smith, a correspondent for the Divinity School. I'm standing here in Marsh Chapel at Boston University, where 60 years ago on ...

Religious life, like everything else in life, has been drastically impacted by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Here at Harvard and in the Boston area, we’ve seen houses of worship closed, religious ...

On September 29, 2022, Gerald J. Steinacher, James A. Rawley Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who specializes in the history of the Holocaust and its immediate aftermath, ...

This summer, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued two major decisions with religion at the center of the cases. In Groff v. DeJoy, the court bolstered protections for workers asking ...

Charles Stang, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions and Professor of Early Christian Thought, delivered the first Price Lecture of 2019 at Trinity Church Boston on March 10, 2019..