Harvard Divinity School
Lama Rod describes himself as a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. He wants to free you from suffering
By Luis Andres Henao — April 22, 2024
ROME, Ga (AP) —Today, he is an influential voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers, respected for his work focused on social change, identity and spiritual wellness.
David Wolpe: The college presidents’ testimony was ‘exquisitely painful’
By Beth Kissileff — December 14, 2023
(RNS) — One of the country’s most prominent rabbis concluded the problem of antisemitism at Harvard was beyond the weight of his wisdom and experience.
Why Black women like Yolanda Pierce are rising to lead top theology schools
By Rebekah Barber — October 31, 2023
(RNS) — The academy is raising up the voices it once blocked.
Harvard Divinity School selects first Black woman as dean
By Yonat Shimron — August 25, 2023
(RNS) — Marla Frederick, a professor of religion and culture at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, will succeed David Hempton, who has served as dean since 2012.
Casper ter Kuile sees America’s religious decline as an opportunity
By Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton — July 19, 2023
(RNS) — Casper ter Kuile’s spiritual entrepreneurship has compelled him to seek ways people can find belonging and community outside traditional houses of worship.
Scholar and preacher Jonathan Lee Walton named next president of Princeton Seminary
By Adelle M. Banks — October 14, 2022
(RNS) — 'The church is changing. Society is changing. So we need clear-minded, faith-informed professionals who can speak hope, equity, and healing in all fields of human endeavor,’ he said.
Are today’s seminarians tomorrow’s corporate leaders?
By Kathryn Post — February 10, 2022
(RNS) — Several seminaries have begun to answer America's need for ethical and social leadership in the workplace.
In resignation letter, Cornel West says Harvard constitutes ‘intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy’
By Alejandra Molina — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — Cornel West released the text of a June 30 letter outlining his reasons for leaving Harvard.
At virtual Family Chapel, the ‘spiritual but not religious’ find community during pandemic
By Alejandra Molina — April 24, 2020
(RNS) — Traditional houses of worship have moved worship for their members online. For seekers and those unaffiliated with any faith, there is Family Chapel.
Why we should stop using the term religious ‘nones’
By Tara Isabella Burton — December 13, 2018
(RNS) — Most of America's religiously unaffiliated millennials are not so much religious 'nones' as they are religious 'manys.'
How to change hearts on race
By Richard Mouw — January 23, 2018
(RNS) — Ultimately, doctrines of racial superiority have to be destroyed in the deep places of our souls. But a smartphone can help.
Why religious studies are needed
By Martin E. Marty — December 4, 2017
(RNS) — Most in the public simply scorned all 'cultists,' and life went on. But some experts came out of the shadows and showed that they had light to shine, light which sometimes might prevent alarming and disruptive incidents from taking place.
Harvey Cox seconds Pope Francis on capitalist critique
By Josephine McKenna — October 27, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) In another step forward for Catholic-Protestant reconciliation, Pope Francis and one of America's leading Protestant theologians agree on a major heresy: the worship of the free market.
Five questions for transgender chaplain Cameron Partridge
By Lauren Markoe — July 19, 2013
(RNS) Episcopal chaplain Rev. Cameron Partridge talks about his journey from being a woman to a man, the limits of transgender "before-and-after" stories and why Harvard Divinity School and Anglicanism feel like home.
Article on ‘Jesus’ Wife’ papyrus delayed for more testing
By David Gibson — January 4, 2013
(RNS) The Harvard Theological Review is postponing publication of a major article on the papyrus fragment in which Jesus seems to refer to his wife, raising further doubts about a discovery that was set to turn Christian history on its head when it was announced last September. By David Gibson.
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