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Over the 2023-24 academic year, HDS Writer-in Residence Terry Tempest Williams and Professor Stephanie Paulsell led 16 students from the classroom to the landscape of Great Salt Lake through a year-long seminar. The course, “Walking the Inland Sea: Desert...

You’re listening to Harvard Divinity School's Praxis Podcast, where I, Maddison Tenney, interview HDS students about what brought them here, what they study, and where they hope to go next. This week's guest, Amy Sexauer, is a Master of Divinity student...

A yearly tradition at HDS, the Stendahl Symposium honors the memory of former professor Krister Stendahl, who tirelessly sought to repair fractions between Jews and Christians, supported the ordination of women, and pushed for the full inclusion and...

Organized by the HDS student group, HDS Muslims, this event began after breaking fast; guests enjoyed an hour-long performance by a group of musicians who performed examples of traditional music from Ottoman Sufi Istanbul lodges. This event featured the...

Tara Yazdan Panah is a first-year master of theological studies student at Harvard Divinity School. Her research interests include exploring the intersection of spiritual affect and artistic expression as well as childhood mystical experiences. In...

"As a Zen Buddhist, I regard these questions not simply as theoretical issues to be determined by doctrine but as lived inquiries illuminated through practice. I have long felt a profound kinship with plants, one that first called me to a decade-long...

Abstract art has long served as a vessel for artists — think Hilma af Klint or Wassily Kandinsky — to explore religion and spirituality. Isabel Haro ’24, a concentrator in art, film, and visual studies with a secondary in music, was inspired to pursue a...

“The end result is this beautiful musical that I think sheds a lot of light into the psyche of a woman who so rarely gets to tell her own story,” said Sara J. Li, MRPL '24, who directed "Medea: The Musical" presented by the Harvard Classical Club.

This interview is one in an ongoing series exploring the intersection of art and religion in HDS courses. How can we imagine a better world from within our current context? When Charles Hallisey , MDiv ’78, and Molly Silverstein, MDiv ’22, began...

“I resonate with Paul Tillich’s conception of religion as dealing with the ‘ultimate concern.’ Religion, for me, is a way of harnessing that which we are all ultimately concerned with, in both a tangible sense and a metaphysical one. In other words, we...