Social Justice

"I think the relationship is on life support, and people of good faith are working to try to solve the problem and to heal the shattered fragments of the relationship," says HDS Professor Terrence Johnson of the relationship between Black and Jewish...

Convened by Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies at HDS, this colloquium bridged connections between the critical study of Black religion and studies of race, gender, and sexuality in critical theory and philosophy...

On Monday, February 13, 2023, Harvard Divinity School hosted an event, featuring HDS Professor Dan McKanan, on legacies of slavery at HDS as seen through stories of the School’s founders and early students. Following the event, Morgan Curtis and Emily...

Alumni Spotlight: The Rev. Bernadette Hickman-Maynard, AB ’02, EdM ’03, MDiv ’07 Harvard Divinity School welcomed our new Associate Dean for Ministry Studies, the Rev. Teddy Hickman-Maynard, to campus for the start of the 2021 academic year. Throughout...

When Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin delivers Harvard Divinity School’s 2022 Convocation address on September 1, she will encourage students to “take up the mantle of their predecessors who fought for equity and justice.” Brown-Nagin...

Karen King, Hollis Professor of Divinity, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on March 7, 2022. ♦♦♦ Good morning. A reading from the gospel of Matthew, chapter five, verse 48. "You, therefore, must be perfect...

Cornell William Brooks, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Prophetic Religion and Public Leadership at HDS and a Harvard Kennedy School faculty member, and Linda Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at HKS, explore why the...

Brooks teaches students to bring sacred and secular together in service of social justice When Cornell William Brooks saw the video of George Floyd, the African American man killed last May by a Minneapolis police officer, it immediately brought to mind...