Religion, Science, and Sustainability

Gosia Sklodowska, associate director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, modeled a skirt of plastic and bubble wrap during the "Marine Debris Fashion Show" at Harvard's 2023 Arts First Festival. Her outfit was created by HDS student Ellen...

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit joins HDS Writer-in-Residence Terry Tempest Williams in a conversation on the power of storytelling as it relates to climate change. This event took place April 12, 2023, in Memorial Church at Harvard...

"Whatever your gifts are, those are needed." This April, Harvard Divinity School students, faculty, and staff organized the first-ever Climate Justice Week, an initiative to honor Earth Month by proactively tackling the urgency of the climate crisis. The...

“We don’t know how to get there, but we know to take the next step and the next step,” writer and activist Rebecca Solnit said during HDS's Climate Justice Week, quoting E.L. Doctorow’s description of writing as an apt analogy: “Writing is like driving at...

At the intersection of where new meets old, and style meets sustainability, you will find Harvard Divinity School’s recently renovated main campus building—Swartz Hall. The elegant addition bridges the space between the original, century-old chapel and...

Based on a lifelong study of Hinduism in her hometown, the global city of Bangalore, India, Dr. Tulasi Srinivas seeks a new way of understanding everyday modern, sacred life. Focusing upon the anthropology of wonder, beauty and grace, her work forges new...

“I remember after a busy day of DivEx programming, I sat on the steps of Swartz Hall, feeling the sun on skin and just hearing this whisper from the Divine saying, ‘You belong here; here is a place that you will grow and get to know me better.’ And so I...

"I have known Great Salt Lake in flood and now in drought, between her highest level, at 4,211.8 feet in 1987, and her lowest, at 4,188.5 feet in 2022. Maps and newspapers call her the Great Salt Lake, but to me, she’s Great Salt Lake," writes Terry...

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...

Professor Mayra Rivera talks about coloniality and race, environmental catastrophe, and transforming the way we see the world. Welcome to Faculty Focus, a special podcast series from Harvard Divinity School, where we speak with HDS professors about their...