Christianity

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., reports back after he spent five weeks in India this summer keeping his "eyes and ears wide open," and on the 50th anniversary of his landing in India in 1973 on his way to teach in Nepal.

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at the Harvard Divinity School led a online conversation with the 2022-23 Yang Visiting Scholars, Dr. Heather Mellquist Lehto, and Dr. Ashok Kumar...

“There is a significant difference between the eighteenth century and the present. The white Christian nationalists who supported the American Revolution were tainted by their racism and their refusal to extend political rights to women, but they defended...

Benjamin Dunning, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, helps clear up a myth circulated by a social media post that suggests an ancient text invokes modern-day language about gender identity.

Joan Taylor, coauthor of the forthcoming book, Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples, pointed to the work of HDS professor and German theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, who pioneered the field of feminist biblical interpretation in the 1980s and...

Professor Ashok Kumar Mocherla is one of two Yang Visiting Scholars in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School during the 2022-23 academic year. His scholarly interests include the sociology of religion, caste, and Indian Christianity, as well as...

On Monday, January 30, 2023, Harvard Divinity School hosted an event on the presence of enslavement in early Christian stories. The event was the first in a series of six public online conversations titled Religion and the Legacies of Slavery, which aims...

Harvard Divinity School hosted a discussion on the presence of enslavement and enslaved people in early Christian stories at a virtual forum Monday night

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...

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., ponders what he has learned or worried about, when thinking of the example of Benedict as a Catholic intellectual.