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American Academy of Arts & Science named 17 Harvard faculty among its 269 newly elected members.

Editor’s note: Late last month, Russian authorities arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on charges of espionage, the first time Russia has...

Professor Charles Hallisey talks about Buddhist Studies at Harvard, his path to teaching, and the beauty of the world.

INTERCOLLEGIATE SOCIALIST SOCIETY ~   Alexander Irvine rubbed his large, chapped, hands together as he walked along Wooster Square. "The Christian

“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 was just like, ‘Okay. I’m applying to Harvard Divinity School. This will be a place that will further my aspirations to do healing justice work.'” As the daughter of a United Methodist preacher and Peruvian-Bolivian immigrant, A...

Last week, when a Tennessee judge forcibly changed an infant’s name from Messiah to Martin, it was hard to decide which was more noteworthy, the parents’ grandiosity in naming their child for the one they consider their Savior or the judge’s religious zealotry in prohibiting the name. “The word ‘Messiah’ is a title, and it’s…

A visiting Harvard professor will be the inaugural speaker of a new lectureship series from the Religious Studies Department at the University of Oklahoma.

    While, in terms of their form, Matthew 5:10 and 5:11-12 may seem at first glance to constitute two distinct "beatitudes," it's pretty

Harvard Divinity School (HDS) hosted a semester-long series on religion and slavery to discover how religion can enhance "commitment to reparative action."

By Timothy Cahill ’16 M.A.R.