Ministry

Margaret R. Rathbun, MDiv '25, is spending the summer at Waquoit Congregational Church in Falmouth, Mass., the first time the church has been selected as a field education site for the divinity school.

Professor Matthew Ichihashi Potts looks forward to brewing his signature pour-over coffee every morning. It’s a meditative moment—beans become grounds, still water boils, and the two steep together for precisely three minutes. It’s his morning routine...

HDS Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Melissa Wood Bartholomew, and HDS Associate Dean of Ministry Studies Theodore N. Hickman-Maynard joined members of the Harvard community for a vigil in Memorial Church to mark the end of Black...

During her senior year at Fisk University, a historically Black university in Nashville, Tennessee, Aliyah Collins, MDiv ’23, witnessed the aftermath of climate disaster firsthand. A storm in March 2020 brought a series of tornadoes to the Nashville area...

A trio of Latter-day Saints, including 1st Lt. Jenna Carson, MDiv '18, graduated February 3 from the Air Force Chaplain Corps College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. Completing the required four-week Chaplain Corps College course means...

The body might be the primary concern of health care, but providers shouldn’t lose sight of patients’ spiritual side. That was the message delivered Wednesday by participants in a Divinity School panel sponsored by the Initiative on Health, Spirituality...

When a crime is committed or moral injury occurs, we often respond in one of two ways: we condemn the offense and seek redress, or we declare our willingness to forgive and move on. But a reflexive willingness to pardon—though praised by the Christian...

Sitting across the table, Deung Myoung Sunim held a deck of 49 "Mind Cards," each one with a unique colorful drawing and a word. He fanned them out and offered them to me. "You can choose one or three cards, and we can see what your mind is thinking about...

A popular course taught by Professor Matthew Ichihashi Potts at Harvard Divinity School explores the concept of forgiveness and asks when we're obligated to forgive, what forgiveness should look like, and what conditions should be attached to it.

Abdul Rahman Latif, MTS '18, has been named the first Muslim chaplain at Dartmouth College, where he has been working to strengthen connections within the Muslim community.