Climate change

Graduating MDiv candidate Aliyah Collins’s nonprofit aims to help HBCU students make spiritual connections with nature, and launch conversations about environmental equity.

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...

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...

Much of that creativity involves efforts, stirred by climate change, to reconcile science and religion. These discussions are emerging from diverse places, from Harvard’s Divinity School to The Nature Conservancy, writes The Christian Science Monitor's...

“One of the things that is shocking to me is the way we just trundle on,” said Elizabeth Kolbert, whose 2014 book “The Sixth Extinction” was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. “Each loss doesn’t get marked, and I see my role to a great extent as bearing witness.”