Student Organizations

The HDS Anti-Oppression Coalition works to integrate antioppression learning and resources into all levels of this institution through partnerships with students, staff, faculty, and administrators.

The HDS Asian Student Association welcomes all members of the HDS community to join us in exploring the many faces of Asian culture and tradition. We hope to be a "home away from home" for international students from Asia, as well as a common space and platform for Asian students to express their values and concerns. We cordially welcome all new and returning students to join us in the coming year's activities.

The HDS BAR Hoppers will engage students in the religious diversity of our greater neighborhood in the Boston area through twice-monthly visits to and optional participation in services at various religious organizations. Hosting guest speakers from various religious communities and discussions with faculty is also in the mission of this organization.

The HBC is a nondenominational Buddhist group serving the Harvard and Cambridge communities, supporting engagement with Buddhist traditions through spiritual practice as well as academic study. Every Tuesday from 6 to 7pm we host meditation sessions in Andover Chapel at Harvard Divinity School. Brief instructions are offered at the beginning, followed by a reading or talk and discussion. All experience levels are welcome. Along with these sessions we organize other Buddhism-related events and social gatherings throughout the school year. Our programming ranges from day-long meditation retreats, to scholarly talks, to explorations of the dharma in new expressive media, such as our Dharma Jam dance events.

HDS Catholic RENEWAL is attentive to the needs of the People of God who seek a space and community to dialogue about women's ordination in the Catholic Church. We seek to respond to the Church's refusal to engage in this dialogue by creating a public voice at HDS and within the BTI. Catholic RENEWAL hosts events, group conversations, and actions on campus and around Boston that promote dialogue about women's ordination in the Catholic Church.

The HDS Catholics' mission is to provide a support community for members of the Catholic tradition to practice and grow in their faith. HDS Catholics is also committed to providing the HDS community with an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the Roman Catholic tradition through a variety of events.

HDS Chant is a group for developing skills for singing chant in a variety of traditions. We will explore meditative, devotional, liturgical, and communal practices through meetings, workshops, and events.

HDS Community Garden Group grows food and meets the community's needs for local and organic food while partnering with staff in educating the community on issues of sustainable food production and consumption.

HDS Crimson Global serves as a group to connect international students at HDS.

Cult/ure is a student-run academic journal. We publish exemplary student scholarship in the areas of religious studies, ministry studies, and theology annually.

Div School Humanists is a group dedicated to the discussion of the many forms of humanism (and their ethical applications) in an interreligious, multiethnic, complex world.

DUCCS is a community of worship and support for UCC students and all who may be interested in the radical and extravagant welcome espoused by this denomination.

EcoDiv brings ecological perspectives to bear on the study and practice of religion and ministry. In order to promote and encourage environmental justice, ecological awareness, and sustainable lifestyles, EcoDiv hosts speakers, conversations, films, workshops, advocacy, ritual spaces, and creative ecological engagement.

The Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship is a group of liturgy fiends and language junkies who gather on Fridays at 11am for Eucharist, followed by lunch and discussion in Rockefeller Hall. We revel in theology—in many forms—and often talk about bodies, Anglican theologians, spiritual practices, and other holy things. We provide many opportunities for prayer and retreat through our own programming and our many connections with Anglican communities throughout the Boston area. We also collaborate with the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard to plan various liturgies, panels, and conferences.

HDS Feminist Action Caucus raises a feminist consciousness at Harvard Divinity School through speakers, installations, and other events.

Fiesole was founded in order to uncloset all of the creative writers among us, to foster a supportive community that emboldens its members to write with wild abandon and without apology for creative dabbling. We seek to provide a nurturing space for sharing work, receiving constructive critique (optional), circulating inspiring reads, and exchanging our passion for the literary arts.

HDS Football Club promotes the sport of football (soccer).

Friends at HDS cultivates a supportive community for Quakers at HDS, we share our fellowship with others, and we provide information about Quakerism. Please visit our website for more information.

Harambee is the organization for students of African descent at Harvard Divinity School. The organization welcomes African Americans, Caribbean, Latin American, Afro-European, Afro-Asian, and African students. As an organization at a school committed to "scholarship and ministry in a religiously plural world," Harambee welcomes students regardless of religious faith or denomination.

The purpose of Hinduism at HDS is to 1. promote awareness of a Hindu religious calendar (holy days and holidays) among HDS students and faculty, 2. create a space for religious expression and observance for Hindus and interested folk, 3. organize Hindu religious and cultural events to promote awareness of same and to invite into communication and community with this tradition the students, faculty, and staff of HDS.

The Holy Worters are a group of dedicated beer brewers, following in the ancient tradition of Christian monks from around the world. All are welcome to come and partake in learning this most holy of arts.

HUUMS' mission is to support one another in our studies, vocations, and lives through worship, professional and spiritual development opportunities, and fellowship. We also advocate for an academic environment at HDS that fosters excellence in Unitarian Universalist scholarship and ministry.

Immigration Project at HDS aims to organize and sponsor projects that raise awareness of the immigration experience, both domestically and abroad.

The purpose of In Process is to provide a welcoming space for community members to delve into the rich literature of process philosophy and process theology. Activities include book clubs, discussion groups, and potentially trips to attend process-related conferences.

HDS Inspire energizes the HDS community through spirit-filled song and exploring the boundaries of spiritually transformative music.

Drawing on a cross-section of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, and scholars of mysticism, the Integral Contemplative Christian Group is a forum for inquiring into ideas related to contemplative Christianity in the contemporary world and for exploring a range of spiritual practices. In particular, it aims to be a laboratory for collective spiritual, or "presence," practices, in which individuals share a synergistic field of intelligence, inside which a higher level of transparent communication and a greater depth of collective inquiry can take place. The group values questions at least as much as answers and orients itself primarily around the following question: How can the twenty-first-century Christian church be a vehicle for human transformation and spiritual awakening?

The Jewish Student Association (JSA) seeks to provide communal space for Jewish students and to reach out to other religious groups on campus. Our past programs have included interfaith events and dialogues, features, movie nights, Torah study, and holiday festivities such as Shabbat dinners, sukkah building, Passover seders, and Purim parties. We also strive to include new ideas and programs and are excited to hear about your interests. So, whether you crave text study, theological debate, new perspectives on old ideas, or celebration of ancient holidays, please come join us!

The HDS Korean Student Association seeks to provide educational support, networking, spiritual well-being, and a sense of community for Korean and Korean American students of Harvard Divinity School. It also serves as a context for the study of issues facing Korean and Korean American ministry. In addition, it strives to enrich all HDS students' multicultural, social, and academic experiences.

HDS Lutherans seek to grow in understanding both the depth and breadth of Lutheran identity, and to creatively share such understanding with others while treasuring the plural nature of this place. We orient our time together around worship, community, and learning. All are welcome, and we delight in the presence of ecumenical and interfaith friends. We gather weekly for evening prayer, reflection and, conversation. About once each month we host a "Table Talk" at the Rock or at a local pub or restaurant, frequently featuring guests from the wider Lutheran community. We travel several times each year, notably to the "Lutherans in Diaspora" conference every February (with Yale, Union, and Princeton). We are grateful for the campus ministry support of University Lutheran Church, with whom we share excellent retreats, trips, and other social/educational programming.

The primary purpose of the HDS Methodists is to offer Methodist students support and fellowship through our weekly Covenant Group, service opportunities, and worship services.

Ministry in Motion recognizes, explores, and celebrates the embodied arts of ministry. We gather to share practices of eclectic movement and dance, both facilitated and open-formed. While most sessions’ time is devoted to active experience, we also support ongoing dialogue on how the group practices inform our own understanding of and engagement in ministries of motion. We invite everyone in all our glorious ages, shapes, and abilities.

Nuestra Voz is a community welcome to all HDS students with interest in celebrating and learning from our Latino/a, Hispanic, Latin American, Afro-Latino/a, Afro-Caribbean, Mesitzo/a, and indigenous heritages. We seek to come together for fellowship and convivencia to creat a welcoming learning environment for Latino/a students and friends.

Nuestra Voz es una comunidad bienvenida a todos los estudiantes del HDS interesado en celebrando y aprendiendo de nuestras culturas Latina, Hispánica, Latinamericana, Afro-latina, Afro-caribeña, mestiza, e indígena. Buscamos a unirse para comunión y convicencia para hacer un ambiente recibimiento para los estudiantes Latino/a neustros amigos.

HDS Outing Club enjoys the great outdoors by taking group trips that include activities such as hiking, mountain climbing, rock climbing, and sailing. We exist in order to provide a physical and mental outlet for students during the stress of the academic year.

Pocket Pancakes' mission is to explore and implement improvisational practices at HDS to foster community and spiritual development. Also, to have SO much fun.

HDS Presbyterians provides a space and a resource for Presbyterians on campus to learn, worship, practice, and develop relationships. We meet frequently, host a noon service, and enjoy fellowship with each other.

The HDS Prison Awareness Project aims to raise awareness about the mass incarceration epidemic, exposing the complex ways in which ideologies, perspectives, power structures, religious frameworks, theologies, and presuppositions create the format in which crime and punishment are conceptualized and enforced. Seeking criminological reform as well as changes in punitive practices, special emphasis is placed on wrongful conviction and the practice of targeting other-than-white persons.

HPEP believes that education is a fundamental right and a means to reform and liberation. We provide mentoring relationships to inmates earning college degrees while serving their sentences.

Queer Rites is a group of students who have come together to foster dialogue and to explore ritual around what it means to be queer, what it means to be spiritual, and where those two intersect and interact. We do not consider ourselves to be the voice for queer life at HDS, but instead a space for investigation of the meaning of being queer at HDS.

Collectively organized under the name Situationists at Harvard Divinity School, we are as much unified as we are diverse, as much constructive as we are deconstructive, and as adamant about upholding the meaning of such characterizations as we are not. In theory and practice we aim to create situations of spectacle, spontaneity, and subversion that foment the avant-garde and gesture toward the impossibility of not creating situations and the responsibility that resides therein.

SCT is a student organization committed to furthering the study of comparative theology at Harvard Divinity School. It strives to create a welcoming environment for those seeking an introduction to the field, while also providing resources and support to students interested in pursuing academic careers involving comparative theology. By means of regular meetings, many of which involve guest lectures from professors within the field, and its student-managed journal, the society offers a space for students to discuss relevant publications, present their own projects and ideas, learn from scholars in the field, and receive constructive feedback from their colleagues.

HDS South Asia serves as a valuable extension of academic learning about South Asia at HDS. It explores the richness of the social, cultural, political, and spiritual dimensions of lived experience in South Asia.

The mission of the HDS Student Initiative on Religion and Government is to stimulate and showcase academic research in the interdisciplinary domain of religion and government, including but not limited to the fields of religion and law, religion and politics, and religion and policymaking. Specifically, the initiative wants to improve the exchange of information concerning matters of religion and government, and to facilitate contacts between students, researchers, academics, and intellectual leaders in this area. Through various types of public events, mainly lectures, conferences, and debates, the opportunity for academics to share their knowledge and opinions will be created. More informal meetings between students and researchers are also likely to be organized.

The purpose of VeriTOSS is to play ultimate Frisbee, promote fun, and engage in Frisbee-fueled fellowship.

Wick is the literary journal of the HDS community.

Yoga Yog-aahhh is stretching and bending, flowing and moving.

The HDS Choir sings occasionally for the weekly Noon Service in Andover Chapel, as well as for the annual "Seasons of Light" celebration. Rehearsals take place in Andover Chapel at 11:30 am on the Wednesdays that the choir will sing. Any students, staff, or faculty interested in joining the choir may contact Harry Huff, organist and choir director.

Hosted each week by a different religious community of the HDS campus and overseen by a steering committee of students and staff, this weekly service allows the HDS community to pray with our companions across the boundaries of our many respective traditions. The Wednesday Noon Service Steering Committee is dedicated to creating a safe and respectful environment for diverse faith-based and student-run groups at HDS. Acknowledging the unique religious diversity of our campus, we aim to support and advance the religious pluralism of the School by engaging and honoring the many religious perspectives, commitments, and experiences among us. By creating a recognized time and place for all of us to come together in prayer, in reflection, in ritual, and in conversation, we seek not only to aid the ongoing dialogue among our various faiths, but also, to come to know and to serve each other.

WomenCircle is a gathering of women that meets monthly for creative, moving, and interactive services. We are activists, dancers, poets, religious and community leaders, scholars, teachers. We identify as straight, queer, single, partnered. We welcome all that you are to our circle and hope that you will celebrate with us.