Religion, Science, and Sustainability

"Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought." Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations...

People wondered, "If we have these sacraments, are the churches obsolete? Is this the religion of the future?" Christian Greer tells Paul Gillis-Smith in the Harvard Divinity School's Harvard Religion Beat podcast.

In 2021, HDS completed a comprehensive renovation and expansion of Swartz Hall, which included significant preservation work.

“I don’t see grief as the opposite of hope,” said Terry Tempest Williams, writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School and environmental author and advocate, referring to the sense of loss shared by some over the damage already done. “But if we...

"One of the arguments I put forward in my HDS thesis is that oftentimes people think that people in general don’t care about waste. I really want to push back about that idea," says Sakiko Isomichi, MDiv ’22.

Each year, the HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) recognizes exceptional graduates and one non-alumni Friend of the School with the Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honors. The award, given in memory of the late Reverend Gomes, celebrates...

"For environmentalists today, the Forest Festivals are both an inspiring model of movement building and a reminder that we cannot save the planet without the commitment of ordinary people," writes HDS faculty member Dan McKanan.

Historically, professional organizations in the study of religion have ignored the experiences and practices of marginal and new religious movements. The new Program for the Evolution of Spirituality (PES) at Harvard Divinity School is working to...

On September 15, Donald K. Swearer delivered the 2008-09 Convocation Address: "An Ecology of Human Flourishing." Paul D. Hanson, Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity, delivered the Invocation; Dean William A. Graham provided welcoming remarks.

On a recent November morning, the hustle of Harvard Yard was interrupted by the steady glide of a North Atlantic right whale. From Massachusetts Avenue to Cambridge Common and across the Science Center Plaza to the Divinity School, the more than 6-foot...