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Expand your understanding of the ways religion shapes the world with lectures, interviews, and reflections from Harvard Divinity School.

Episode Date
Madness, Mysticism, and Philosophy – A Talk with Wouter Kusters
Jul 07, 2025
Hospital Chaplaincy: A Praxis Podcast featuring David Holden, MDiv '24
Jun 17, 2025
Hope Podcast: Featuring Becca Leviss and Rucha Modi, MTS Candidates
Apr 30, 2025
Hope Podcast: Featuring Matta Zheng, MDiv candidate
Apr 30, 2025
Photographing the Invisible – A Talk with Shannon Taggart
Apr 25, 2025
Hope Podcast: Featuring Paula Ortiz, MDiv Candidate
Mar 25, 2025
End of Life Care and Horror Scholarship: A Praxis Podcast featuring Kristen Maples, MDiv '24
Mar 23, 2025
Christian Nationalism in Global Perspective
Mar 11, 2025
Empire and Epistemicide: Historical Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Peace and its Erasures
Mar 11, 2025
Exploring Sectarian Identity in Islam
Mar 06, 2025
Hope Podcast: Featuring Marty Matinage, MDiv Candidate
Mar 02, 2025
Black Metal and Orthodox Christianity – A Talk with Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix of Liturgy
Feb 27, 2025
Hope Podcast: Featuring Joyce Cheng, MTS Candidate
Feb 19, 2025
Hope Podcast: Featuring Ivy Wang, MDiv Candidate
Feb 19, 2025
Ceramics and Surrender: A Praxis Podcast featuring Jack Tripp, MTS ’25
Feb 18, 2025
Bulletin Long Read: On Assignment, Virgil Rescues Dante from the Wilderness
Feb 08, 2025
Second Act Careers & Chaplaincy: A Praxis Podcast Episode featuring Rebecca Oreskes
Feb 02, 2025
Women, Art, and the Spirit World – A Talk With Jennifer Higgie, Author of The Other Side
Jan 14, 2025
Book Event: Zionism: An Emotional State by Derek Penslar
Dec 10, 2024
Religion and Democratic Ideals: Reproductive Healthcare Access and White Nationalism
Dec 10, 2024
Religion and Democratic Ideals: Political Futures
Dec 10, 2024
Eve’s Innocence: Women’s Biblical Exegesis in Renaissance Venice
Dec 10, 2024
Harvard Divinity School 2024 Convocation
Dec 10, 2024
Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story
Dec 10, 2024
Religion and Democratic Ideals: Media, Religion, and the Nation
Dec 10, 2024
The Importance of HBCUs in the Making of American Democracy
Dec 10, 2024
Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, and Difference
Dec 10, 2024
Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism
Dec 09, 2024
Celebrating Dhamma Chakra Day: Buddhism as Emancipation
Dec 04, 2024
What it Takes to Manifest Compassion: A Talk with the Sabal Foundation
Dec 03, 2024
Religion and Democratic Ideals: Rematriation, Land, and Healing
Dec 03, 2024
Music and the Esoteric Imagination – A Talk with Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3
Dec 02, 2024
Lost in the Mystery of God: Remembered Wisdom Before Retirement
Dec 02, 2024
Interprofessional Palliative Care
Dec 02, 2024
From Visual Storytelling to Historical Imagination: A Praxis Podcast featuring Marisol Andrade Muñoz
Nov 19, 2024
Hope Podcast: Featuring Taylon E. Lancaster, MDiv candidate
Nov 18, 2024
Hope Podcast: Featuring Eve Schwartz, MDiv Candidate
Nov 06, 2024
Religion, Technology, and Extraterrestrial Intelligences – A Talk with Diana Pasulka
Nov 01, 2024
Hope Podcast: Featuring Hiatt O'Connor, MDiv '26
Oct 31, 2024
Book Interview: Terrence L. Johnson Interviews Corey Brettschneider about Presidents and Democracy
Oct 29, 2024
The Intersection of Healing, Veteran Service, and Motherhood: A Praxis Podcast featuring Amy Sexauer
Oct 25, 2024
Hope Podcast: Featuring Jordan Ahmed, MDiv Candidate
Oct 23, 2024
Hope Podcast: Featuring Nicole Marie, MDiv Candidate
Oct 23, 2024
Pop Apocalypse: Dreams, Creativity, and Precognition–a Talk with Eric Wargo
Sep 25, 2024
On Being a Hindu Monastic: Personal Journeys
Jun 24, 2024
Black Religion and Mental Health Symposium Closing Keynote: Dr. Charmain Jackman
Jun 24, 2024
An Evening with Twinkie Clark
Jun 24, 2024
2024 Billings Preaching Prize Competition
Jun 06, 2024
Battle of Siffin: The Intrigues Against Imam Ali's Statebuilding Project
Jun 06, 2024
Peter J Gomes STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honors: Journeys of the Soul
Jun 05, 2024
Compassion in Action: Addressing Discrimination Through the Lens of Buddhist Teachings
Jun 05, 2024
Stendahl Symposium 2024: New Horizons, New Resistance
Jun 03, 2024
RCPI Spring 2024 Book Series: Stranger in My Own Land
May 31, 2024
The Passions of Aisha: Women, Trauma, and Jinn Possession in Morocco
May 31, 2024
Public Courage and the Academy:Beyond the Binaries: Depolarizing our Politics and Bridging Our World
May 16, 2024
Public Courage and the Academy:The Future of the Church and the Cosmopolitan Leaders Its Calling For
May 16, 2024
Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: Reflecting on Religion in Times of Earth Crisis
May 16, 2024
RCPI Spring 2024 Book Series: Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible
May 13, 2024
Yang Scholars 2024: Explorations in World Christianity
May 13, 2024
Ottoman Sufi Music Night
May 13, 2024
Meditation in Fractured Times
May 13, 2024
Becoming A New Saint: Exploring the Path of Emerging as Warriors from Our Broken Hearts
May 03, 2024
Hope Podcast: Featuring Keisha Bush, MTS '24
May 02, 2024
Hope Podcast: Featuring Swami Sachidananda
May 01, 2024
Hope Podcast: Featuring Jamail Khan, MTS '24
Apr 30, 2024
Psychedelics, California, and the Cultures of Consciousness: A Talk with Erik Davis
Apr 30, 2024
Hope Podcast: Featuring Michael Fuhrman, MDiv '25
Apr 29, 2024
Hope Podcast: Featuring Ahmaad Edmund, MDiv '24
Apr 26, 2024
Chaplaincy Across Fields: Nurturing Resilience and Compassion 031924
Apr 16, 2024
Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: The Practice of Wild Mercy: Something Deeper Than Hope
Apr 01, 2024
Black Religion and Mental Health Symposium Plenary II
Apr 01, 2024
Black Religion and Mental Health Symposium Plenary I
Apr 01, 2024
Black Religion and Mental Health Symposium Opening Keynote
Apr 01, 2024
More Babies and More Birth Control: American Jews and the Politics of Reproduction
Apr 01, 2024
Refuge in the Storm Webinar Series, Part III: Caring for Crisis Workers
Apr 01, 2024
Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: Apocalyptic Grief: Reckoning with Loss, Wrestling with Hope
Apr 01, 2024
Conversation with Dr. Luis Eduardo Luna about the Science and Philosophy of Plant Intelligence
Mar 04, 2024
Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: Animal Stories, in Crisis
Feb 26, 2024
The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance & End of Days Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel
Feb 26, 2024
Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: Ancestors and Climate in Our Boston Backyard
Feb 26, 2024
Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: A Procession of Catastrophes
Feb 26, 2024
RCPI Book Series: Decolonizing Religion and the Practice of Peace
Feb 26, 2024
Inside the Mind of a Spirit Channel – a Conversation with Paul Selig
Feb 20, 2024
Enheduanna: Voicing the Feminine Divine Presentation and Musical Performance
Jan 26, 2024
Peripheries Launch Event 2023
Dec 29, 2023
Psychedelics and the Future of Religion: Mescaline and Psychonauts with Mike Jay
Dec 29, 2023
LGBTQ+ Rights Under Attack - Session 2: Protecting Against Violence and Discrimination
Dec 29, 2023
Dr. Keith Edward Cantú, Like a Tree Universally Spread Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga
Dec 29, 2023
Psychedelics and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Meaning-Making in Psychedelia
Dec 14, 2023
Pop Apocalypse: Ecstatic Knowledge and the Study of Religion - Feat. Jeffrey J. Kripal
Dec 11, 2023
Refuge in the Storm Webinar Series Part II: Sickness, Aging, and Death: Caring for Life-Cycle Crises
Dec 04, 2023
"Wild Life" Film Screening and Discussion
Dec 04, 2023
Chimera Geographies: Black Spiritual Borderland Performances of the Caribbean
Nov 15, 2023
From Ms. Marvel to the Smithsonian: Teaching Religious Literacy through Arts and Popular Culture
Nov 15, 2023
Psychedelics and the Future of Religion: Race and Exoticism in Global Psychedelic Spirituality
Nov 03, 2023
Call, Respond, and Serve: The Role of Spirituality in Public Theology and Politics
Nov 03, 2023
Pop Apocalypse: Monsters, Fictional Worlds, and the Repressed Supernatural - Feat. Victoria Nelson
Oct 30, 2023
Dhamma Chakra Day: Buddhism and Emancipation of Marginalized Classes in India
Oct 27, 2023
Gnoseologies: Angela’s Symposium: YouTube, Esotericism, and the Academia
Oct 27, 2023
Illuminating the Empire: The Spanish Inquisition and the Spread of Global Heresy
Oct 27, 2023
"Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration"—A Conversation with Alejandra Oliva
Oct 20, 2023
Third Annual Transcendence and Transformation Presentations
Oct 13, 2023
Black Religion and Critical Theory Colloquium: Panel II
Oct 13, 2023
Black Religion and Critical Theory Colloquium: Panel I
Oct 13, 2023
CSWR List Lecture with Adam Afterman
Oct 13, 2023
WSRP 2023-24: Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, & Difference
Oct 13, 2023
Sacred Sabotage: Direct Action and Spiritual Practice Amidst Ecological Breakdown
Oct 02, 2023
Refuge in the Storm Webinar Series, Part I: Buddhist Approaches to Large-Scale and Community Crises
Sep 29, 2023
The Ziyārat of Imām al-Ḥusayn as Liturgical Text in Early Shī‘ī Ḥadīth
Sep 22, 2023
Pop Apocalypse: Aliens, Eros, and Life After Death - An Interview with Whitley Strieber
Sep 18, 2023
HDS Convocation 2023
Sep 14, 2023
Decolonial Dames of America: Book Launch & Reading
Sep 06, 2023
Pop Apocalypse: Psychedelic Gnosis and the Imaginal Double with Laurence Caruana
Aug 07, 2023
Pop Apocalypse: Waking from the Flesh Dream with Alex and Allyson Grey
Aug 07, 2023
"I am Your Sister": Audre Lorde in the Context of Black Feminist Activism and Ethics
Jul 26, 2023
The Islamic Conception of Arabness: A New Reading of the Qurʾānic Discourse on the aʿrāb
Jul 26, 2023
The Power of Mind: A talk with Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche
Jun 15, 2023
Bulletin Long Read: Following the Gaian Way
Jun 15, 2023
In the garden we sat weeping: A Poetry Reading with Suzannah Omonuk
Jun 13, 2023
Book Event: The Planet You Inherit
Jun 13, 2023
2023 Billings Preaching Prize Competition
Jun 13, 2023
Educator Webinar: Religious Literacy and Nurses' Stories in the Age of COVID and Anti-Asian Hate
Jun 13, 2023
Are Psychedelics Theologically Significant for Judaism?
Jun 08, 2023
Multiple Subjectivities & the Ethnographic Study of Lived Religion: Conversation with Fadeke Castor
Jun 08, 2023
Poetry Craft Talk and Reading with Tracy K. Smith
Jun 08, 2023
Harvard Divinity School 2023 Multireligious Commencement Service
Jun 05, 2023
World Christianity, Christianity in the West: Continuities and Differences
Jun 02, 2023
Harvard Divinity School 2023 Commencement Diploma Awarding Ceremony
Jun 01, 2023
Examining the Religious and Spiritual Implications of Climate Change
May 12, 2023
Liquid Light Book Discussion with Bill Barnard (Psychedelics & the Future of Religion Series)
May 11, 2023
New Voices in Poetry: Tawanda Mulalu, Isabel Duarte-Gray, and Jess Yuan
May 04, 2023
Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Group 3
May 04, 2023
Conjuring Nonbinary Futurities and Decolonizing Methodologies
May 04, 2023
The (Re)Imagination of Matter: Introducing the Codex Charles H. Long Papers Project
May 01, 2023
Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Regulation Panel
Apr 27, 2023
Dis/appearing: Black Life, Theodicy & the Study of Religion (Greeley Lecture)
Apr 27, 2023
Climate Justice as Racial Justice: Student Panel
Apr 26, 2023
Religious Literacy and Climate Justice
Apr 26, 2023
Reiki, Energy Medicine, and Post-Materialism
Apr 21, 2023
Applying to Doctoral Programs in Religion
Apr 20, 2023
Examining the Religious and Spiritual Implications of Climate Change
Apr 19, 2023
The Palestinian Question as a Jewish Question
Apr 14, 2023
Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Group Two
Apr 14, 2023
Faculty Focus: Charles Hallisey on the Beauty of the World and Buddhist Studies at Harvard
Apr 14, 2023
Judeopessimism: Antisemitism, History, and Critical Race Theory with Shaul Magid
Apr 14, 2023
Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Group One
Apr 13, 2023
William Belden Noble Lecture Series: Dekila Chungyalpa
Apr 08, 2023
The World of Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Europe
Apr 06, 2023
Faculty Focus: The Graciousness of the World and a Life Well Lived
Apr 05, 2023
Translation As Linguistical and Bodily Metamorphosis
Apr 02, 2023
Reflecting on Religion and the Legacies of Slavery
Mar 23, 2023
What Does It Mean to Awaken Our Dignity?
Mar 22, 2023
Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence and Roadblocks to Political Expression
Mar 22, 2023
Dancing Altars
Mar 20, 2023
Music, Voice, and Healing: A Conversation with Grace Nono
Mar 14, 2023
Slavers and Slavery: A Dialogue with Descendants
Mar 10, 2023
Displacement and Belonging in Israel/Palestine: Harvard Student Stories of Learning in Context
Mar 10, 2023
Leading Toward Justice: Intersections of Religion, Ethics, and Community Organizing
Mar 10, 2023
Faculty Focus: Monica Sanford on Multireligious Ministry for the Twenty-first Century
Mar 06, 2023
Memory, History, and the Ethics of Reparations
Mar 04, 2023
Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses
Feb 26, 2023
Wearing Divine Protection
Feb 23, 2023
Initiated by the Spirits with Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, PhD & Randy Chung Gonzales
Feb 23, 2023
What is “’Awra”?: Women, Gendered Space, and Islamic Law
Feb 15, 2023
HDS and Slavery: Family Stories
Feb 15, 2023
Religion, Race, and the Double Helix of White Supremacy
Feb 10, 2023
William James and the Sick Soul
Feb 08, 2023
Enslavement in the Formation of Earliest Christianity
Feb 08, 2023
BMI 10th Anniversary: Phillip Henderson
Jan 05, 2023
Release Party for Peripheries 2022
Dec 12, 2022
Benediction | David N. Hempton
Dec 07, 2022
"An afro is a halo.” Written by Suzannah Omonuk, MDiv III | From the African Diasporic Traditions
Dec 07, 2022
From The Doctrine and Covenants 88: 2, 5–15 | From the Traditions of Latter-day Saints
Dec 07, 2022
Meditation | “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” by Dolly Parton
Dec 07, 2022
The Qur’an, Surah Nur, Chapter 24, Verse 34–35 | From the Islamic Tradition
Dec 07, 2022
“The Coming of Light” by Mark Strand | From the Jewish Tradition
Dec 07, 2022
“Dark Things” Serbian poem | From Those Who are Spiritual but not Religious
Dec 07, 2022
ساري الليل (Stargazing in the Solstice)| Written and performed by Eilaf Farajalla, MTS II
Dec 07, 2022
Satguru Nanak Pargateya | From the Sikh Tradition
Dec 07, 2022
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 1.3.28 (pavamāna abhyāroha)| From the Hindu Tradition
Dec 07, 2022
“Stone Soup,” Adapted by Lizzy Lincoln from a European folktale | From the Pagan Tradition
Dec 07, 2022
“La Ténèbre” by Jacques Berthier, Taizé Community | Congregational Song
Dec 07, 2022
Isaiah 45: 7–8 and from the Writings of Victor Cadette | From the Christian Tradition
Dec 07, 2022
From the Writings of Caroline Fox and Isaac Penington | From the Religious Society of Friends
Dec 07, 2022
Meditation | “Winter—The Hearth” by Ro Robinson, MDiv I
Dec 07, 2022
“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry | From Those Who Belong to Multiple Traditions
Dec 07, 2022
“Born Again” by Lynn Ungar | From the Unitarian Universalist Tradition
Dec 07, 2022
"Little Prayer" by Danez Smith | From the Traditions of Queer Spiritualities
Dec 07, 2022
“The Eight Verses of Mind Training” by Langri Tangpa Dorje Senge | From the Buddhist Tradition
Dec 07, 2022
Excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoreau | From Those Who are Unaffiliated with Any Tradition
Dec 07, 2022
“Tov L’Hodot L’Hashem” | HDS Choir and Seasons of Light Band
Dec 07, 2022
Sound Meditation | Joyous Noise, HDS’ Chanting Community
Dec 07, 2022
Closing Song | “I Love the Lord”| Performed by Aric Flemming, MDiv '19
Dec 06, 2022
Meditation | “Sweet Surrender”| Chris Berlin, HDS Choir, Seasons of Light Band
Dec 06, 2022
Meditation | “Solstice Carole” | Nicole Newell, HDS Choir
Dec 06, 2022
Prelude | “Three Stanzas of Plum Blossoms” | Tianyi Yuan, MDiv III
Dec 06, 2022
Christianity in Iraq: Challenges and Hopes
Dec 01, 2022
Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live
Nov 29, 2022
Spirituality, Mental Health, and Science
Nov 25, 2022
Art and Religion as Technology
Nov 25, 2022
The Varieties of Spiritual Experience
Nov 21, 2022
Faculty Focus: Crossing Religious Boundaries with Catholic Priest and Hindu Scholar Francis Clooney
Nov 21, 2022
Affect Theater and Collaborative Meaning-Making
Nov 18, 2022
BMI 10th Anniversary: Closing Remarks
Nov 17, 2022
BMI 10th Anniversary: Ven. Priya Rakkhit Sraman
Nov 17, 2022
BMI 10th Anniversary: Bhante Kusala
Nov 17, 2022
BMI 10th Anniversary: Maria Azhunova
Nov 17, 2022
BMI 10th Anniversary: Monica Sanford and Charles Hallisey
Nov 17, 2022
BMI 10th Anniversary: Nancy Chu
Nov 17, 2022
BMI 10th Anniversary: Harrison Blum
Nov 17, 2022
Bears Ears is Listening: We Are Still Here and the Land is Calling Us Back
Nov 08, 2022
Faculty Focus: Mayra Rivera on Transforming the Way We See the World
Nov 07, 2022
Illuminations Launch Party
Nov 05, 2022
The Runaway Goddess: Sacred Waters in an Era of Climate Apocalypse
Nov 05, 2022
Gnoseologies: Black Tarot: African American Women and Divine Processes of Resilience
Oct 31, 2022
The Impact of God is Red on Native American Rights and Native American Religion
Oct 27, 2022
The Impact of God is Red in the Future
Oct 27, 2022
Another Israeli Election: Assessing Trends of Israeli and Jewish Politics
Oct 26, 2022
The Impact of God is Red on Studies of Religion, Land, and the Environment
Oct 22, 2022
The Impact of God is Red on Religious Studies
Oct 21, 2022
The Impact of God is Red on Theology
Oct 20, 2022
The Pope Against Nuremberg: Nazi War Crime Trials, the Vatican, and the Question of Postwar Justice
Oct 18, 2022
Faculty Focus: Teddy Hickman-Maynard on Preparing Future Leaders Who Seek Peace and Justice
Oct 17, 2022
Leading Towards Justice: Intersections of Religion, Ethics, and Government
Oct 13, 2022
Teaching and Learning about Sikhism with Simran Jeet Singh
Oct 07, 2022
Transcendence and Transformation, Take Two
Oct 07, 2022
Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, & Difference—Women's Studies in Religion Panel 2022
Oct 06, 2022
Faculty Focus: Charles Stang on Why 'Dune' Makes for Good Academic Inquiry
Oct 03, 2022
Earth Bound: Welcoming a New Artwork by Ramona Peters
Sep 26, 2022
HDS 2022 Convocation: "Legacies of Slavery: Bondage and Resistance"
Sep 08, 2022
Univitalism and American Law
Aug 18, 2022
Expressions of Sumoud in Palestinian Higher Education
Aug 18, 2022
Yom Ha’atzmaut and the Colonization of American Judaism
May 23, 2022
Psychedelics, Spirituality, and a Culture of Seekership
May 12, 2022
HDS Reorientation and Common Conversation Closing Session
May 06, 2022
Author Discussion: "We God's People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations"
May 04, 2022
2022 Billings Preaching Prize Competition
May 04, 2022
Set it Off Symposium
May 02, 2022
Islamic Self-Help, Gendered Anxieties, and Racial Capitalism in Singapore
May 02, 2022
Leading Toward Justice: Intersections of Religion, Ethics, and Journalism
May 02, 2022
Signs of Your True Voice: First Words, Breakthroughs, Trust, and Transformation
Apr 27, 2022
Annual Stendahl Symposium
Apr 27, 2022
Techgnosis Today
Apr 20, 2022
Decolonize Now: A Conversation about Radical Imagination and Justice in Israel/Palestine
Apr 20, 2022
Walking Through the Twilight: A Visual Exploration of Contemporary Jewish Anti-Occupation Activism
Apr 20, 2022
Your First Heart is Not in Your Chest: An African Indigenous Interrogation of the ‘Divine Feminine’
Apr 16, 2022
Healing from Extremism: How Community Members Can Help Loved Ones Exit Hate
Apr 16, 2022
Ways of Knowing through the Changing Landscapes of Esoteric Art
Apr 06, 2022
A Home for the Human Spirit: Cultural Activism and the Moral Imagination in the Inherit Art Project
Apr 06, 2022
Paranthropology: The Anthropology of the Paranormal
Mar 30, 2022
To Eat Alone Is to Die Alone: A Voyage into the Lives of Seeds and Their Communities
Mar 28, 2022
Words Surviving Siege and War: Poems from Gaza
Mar 28, 2022
Assessing Domestic US Religious Politics’ Impact on Foreign Policy
Mar 22, 2022
The Troubled Everyday in/of Gaza: Restoring Agency and Creative Possibility
Mar 13, 2022
The Writing of Wisdom: Divine Sophia in Russia
Mar 13, 2022
Weather Reports: The Climate of the Future
Mar 13, 2022
Putin's Unholy War
Mar 10, 2022
Leading Toward Justice: Intersections of Religion, Ethics, and Humanitarian Action
Mar 07, 2022
Breaking Walls: Historical and Contemporary Mizrahi Feminist Struggles for Israel/Palestine Housing
Mar 07, 2022
Divining the Feminine in Tibet: Saga & Sādhana of Yeshe Tsogyal
Mar 07, 2022
Accidental Deification: A Conversation with Anna Della Subin
Mar 01, 2022
Gut and Other Knowledges in Religions of the African Diaspora
Mar 01, 2022
Peril to Democracy: Racism and Nationalism in America
Feb 23, 2022
Shared Resistance and Solidarity: A (Re)Newed Paradigm
Feb 23, 2022
Safe, Sacred, Free: Queer Movements and Religious Spaces
Feb 23, 2022
Negation, Not-knowing, and the Dark in Brazilian and Cuban Creole Forms of Religion
Feb 23, 2022
When Boston Banned Christmas
Dec 15, 2021
The Climate of Consciousness
Dec 03, 2021
The Climate of Grief
Dec 02, 2021
The Climate of Compassion for all Beings
Dec 01, 2021
The Climate of Relationships and Intersectionality
Nov 30, 2021
The Climate of Sacred Land Protection
Nov 30, 2021
A Burning Testament to Climate Collapse
Nov 30, 2021
Fantastic Faiths and What We Can Learn From Them
Oct 27, 2021
Divinity Dialogues | Gomes Honoree President Emerita Faust in Conversation with Dean Hempton
Jul 20, 2021
Divinity Dialogues | Robin Coste Lewis on Epic Poetry and the Sacredness of Female Deities
Jul 06, 2021
Divinity Dialogues | Dr. Omar Sultan Haque on Medicine, Metaphysics, and Moral Pluralism
Jun 17, 2021
Divinity Dialogues | Lama Rod Owens on Love, Rage, and Freedom
Jun 10, 2021
Divinity Dialogues | Investigative Journalist Joshua Eaton on the 'Hot Take Industrial Complex'
Jun 04, 2021
How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
May 18, 2021
Author Discussion with Todne Thomas: Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality
May 10, 2021
The Hindu Margins: Third Gender and Women Spiritual Partners
Apr 27, 2021
Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Apr 26, 2021
Religion in the Time of Pandemic
Mar 12, 2021
What is Psychedelic Chaplaincy?
Mar 08, 2021
What Black History Month in 2021 Means for a Rising Spiritual and Ethical Movement
Feb 16, 2021
Making Meaning in 2021 at the Crossroads of Business and Capitalism, Ethics, Faith, and Justice
Feb 02, 2021
Psychedelics: The Ancient Religion with No Name?
Feb 01, 2021
How Joe Biden’s Faith Will Shape His Presidency
Jan 19, 2021
“Grateful” by Hezekiah Walker | Closing Music
Dec 14, 2020
Benediction | Mark D. Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity
Dec 14, 2020
“Light of a Clear Blue Morning” by Dolly Parton
Dec 14, 2020
“Adoro te devote,” 13th-century Benedictine plainsong | Meditation
Dec 14, 2020
Malini Srikrishna, MTS II | From the Hindu Tradition
Dec 14, 2020
2 Corinthians 4:6-18 | From the Christian Tradition
Dec 14, 2020
Five Prayers: A Pageant of Formative Sounds and Souls | Meditation
Dec 14, 2020
The Qur’an, Surah Nur, Chapter 24, Verse 34–35 | From the Islamic Tradition
Dec 14, 2020
Isaiah 60: 1-4; 18-20 | From the Tradition of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Dec 14, 2020
"Regla de Ocha-Ifá," an AfroCuban Spiritual Tradition | From Traditions of the Afrikan* Diaspora
Dec 14, 2020
"Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan | From Those Who are Unaffiliated
Dec 14, 2020
Hine ma tov, a round from the Jewish tradition | Meditation
Dec 14, 2020
“The Light of the Spirit Never Dies” by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | From the Jewish Tradition
Dec 14, 2020
“Poem of Perfect Miracles,” by Walt Whitman | From the Traditions of Queer Spiritualities
Dec 14, 2020
Attadiipaa Sutta (A Lamp to Oneself) | From the Buddhist Tradition
Dec 14, 2020
“Rainbow” by Kacey Musgraves | Meditation
Dec 14, 2020
“Dark and Light” by Jacqui James | From the Unitarian Universalist Tradition
Dec 14, 2020
"A Winter Solstice Blessing" | From the Pagan Tradition
Dec 14, 2020
“In Praise of Fire” by John O’Donohue | From Those Who are Claimed by Multiple Belongings
Dec 14, 2020
“Holy Darkness” by Dan Schutte | Shining, in the Gathering Light
Dec 14, 2020
Communal Invocation | Adapted from the poetry of Hafiz
Dec 14, 2020
Welcome | Kerry A. Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life
Dec 14, 2020
“Vajra Mantra” by Satigata | Kindling the Light
Dec 13, 2020
Prelude | Adagio by Franz Josef Haydn | Christopher Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual
Dec 13, 2020
Jarena Lee as Protestant Icon: A Conversation with Nyasha Junior and Catherine Brekus
Nov 03, 2020
Taurean Webb
Oct 29, 2020
Sapir Sluzker Amran
Oct 29, 2020
Vivien Sansour
Oct 29, 2020
Brant Rosen
Oct 29, 2020
Mati Milstein
Oct 29, 2020
Rana Khoury
Oct 29, 2020
Fady Khoury
Oct 29, 2020
Noura Erekat
Oct 29, 2020
Oriel Eisner
Oct 29, 2020
Salem Al Qudwa
Oct 29, 2020
Spirits of Whiteness in the Age of COVID-19
Oct 09, 2020
The Campaign for (White) Christian America: Lauren R. Kerby in Conversation with Jeff Sharlet
Oct 09, 2020
Psilocybin & Mystical Experience: Implications for Healthy Psychological Functioning & Spirituality
Oct 01, 2020
Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, and Difference
Oct 01, 2020
White Supremacy in the Study and Practice Of Ministry
Sep 23, 2020
2020 Convocation: George and Jesus: Policing an Insurrection of Hope
Sep 04, 2020
Going Beyond the Textbook: John Camardella
Aug 25, 2020
Religious Literacy for Social Justice: Greg Khalil
Aug 25, 2020
Gathering Historias: Wendy Estrada
Apr 28, 2020
Religion for a New Generation
Apr 03, 2020
Noon Service hosted by the HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship
Mar 24, 2020
Vedanta for the 21st Century
Mar 23, 2020
The Intelligence Revolution and the New Attention Economy: An Ethical Singularity
Feb 19, 2020
Becoming the Beloved Community in the Midst of Domestic Terror
Feb 13, 2020
Forms of Grief
Feb 04, 2020
Author Discussion: Religion Around Virginia Woolf
Dec 09, 2019
Theological Education Day 2019: Planning Your Future—Admissions and Financial Aid
Dec 09, 2019
Imagining Judeo-Christian America—Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy
Nov 16, 2019
All the Time in the World: An Artist’s Awakening with Ayahuasca
Nov 13, 2019
Making Babies: Childbirth and Ceramic Production in the Hebrew Bible and Israelite Religion
Nov 13, 2019
Jerusalem: City of the Book
Nov 10, 2019
We Have Always Been Animists
Nov 06, 2019
Theological Education Day 2019: Welcome
Nov 05, 2019
Theological Education Day 2019: Introduction to the MTS, MDiv, ThM, SS, and PhD Curricula
Nov 05, 2019
Theological Education Day 2019: Ministry at HDS—What You Don’t Know Might Surprise You
Nov 05, 2019
Theological Education Day 2019: What is Community Life Like at HDS?
Nov 05, 2019
On Being a Hindu Monastic: Personal Journeys
Nov 03, 2019
Bureaucratic Islam and the Romance Industry in Southeast Asia
Oct 30, 2019
Anne E. Monius Memorial Service
Oct 10, 2019
Death in Transit: Cremation, Spectacle, and Looking Off-center
Sep 28, 2019
Ardencies: St. Hildegard's Blazing Plants
Sep 25, 2019
Gurus, Women, and Yoga: The Spiritual World of Hindu Universalism
Sep 22, 2019
Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice
Sep 16, 2019
Toni Morrison Stories: Goodness and Mercy and Mexico
Sep 12, 2019
Mainstream Meditation and the Million-Dollar Mindfulness Boom
Aug 08, 2019
Divinity Dialogues: 2019 Gomes Honorees
May 06, 2019
The Song Within Thinking Outwardly: Navajo Thought and Poetry
May 02, 2019
Concordance: An Evening with Susan Howe
Apr 23, 2019
Lived Religion and Spirituality in 2019
Apr 22, 2019
Why Hate Crimes Are on the Rise
Apr 18, 2019
Gross National Happiness Conference Wrap-Up
Apr 12, 2019
Gross National Happiness Conference Panel Two: The Happiness Movement
Apr 12, 2019
Gross National Happiness Conference Panel Three: Scaling Happiness and Health
Apr 12, 2019
Gross National Happiness Conference: Keynote Address
Apr 12, 2019
Gross National Happiness Conference Panel One: How do you govern for Happiness?
Apr 11, 2019
RPP Colloquium: Indigenous Guardianship, Nature, and Peace: Holistic Being and Living
Apr 10, 2019
The Land and the Waters are Speaking: Indigenous Views on Climate Change
Apr 03, 2019
The Kingdom of Holy Women: Pentecostalism, Sex and Women’s Bodies in an African Church
Apr 02, 2019
All One Stuff: Emerson’s Materialism
Apr 02, 2019
Buddhism and Race Conference 2019 Panel Two: Buddhism, Race, and Multiple Religious Belongings
Mar 25, 2019
Promoting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals: Women's Leadership, Religion, and Scholarship
Mar 12, 2019
The Case Against Buddhism: A Conversation between Glenn Wallis and Charles Hallisey
Mar 10, 2019
BRSC Panel Three: Revolutionary Art
Mar 08, 2019
BRSC Panel Two: Contested Lives
Mar 08, 2019
BRSC Panel One: Black Panther, Diaspora, and Queering of the Black Imaginary
Mar 08, 2019
Buddhism and Race Conference 2019 Panel One: Buddhism, Race, and Gender
Mar 07, 2019
Faith and Faustian Bargains: Compromise, Complicity, and Courage in Leadership
Mar 05, 2019
The Business of Spirituality: On Money, Branding, and Other Taboos
Mar 03, 2019
Subversive Politics: Climate Change, Collective Ethics, and Justice in Northern Peru
Feb 26, 2019
The Role of Reconciliation, Memory, and Theology in Shaping the Public Stage
Feb 25, 2019
Bioethics on the Margins: Vulnerable Populations and Health Outcomes
Feb 22, 2019
Reparations for Slavery: The Role of Repentance in Politics
Feb 18, 2019
RPP Colloquium Feb 2019: Indigenous Perspectives on Peacemaking in the Face of Racism
Feb 13, 2019
Veiled Women Unveiling God: Understanding the Qur’an Through Its Women Characters
Dec 05, 2018
RPP Colloquium: Natural “SuperCooperation” and the Future of Our Human Family
Dec 05, 2018
Sound Education Conference 2018 Panel 1: Audience Growth
Dec 02, 2018
Radically Happy: Meditation and Mindfulness Based in Ancient Wisdom
Nov 13, 2018
Sound Education Conference 2018 Welcome and Keynote 1
Nov 09, 2018
Dudleian Lecture: Kristallnacht 1938: Crescendo and Overture
Nov 08, 2018
Theological Education Day 2018: Planning Your Future—Admissions and Financial Aid
Nov 07, 2018
Diversity and Explorations 2018: Keynote by Jacob Olupona
Nov 07, 2018
Theological Education Day 2018: What is Community Life Like at HDS?
Nov 07, 2018
Theological Education Day 2018: Welcome
Nov 06, 2018
Theological Education Day 2018: Ministry at HDS—What You Don’t Know Might Surprise You
Nov 06, 2018
Theological Education Day 2018: Introduction to the MTS, MDiv, ThM, SS, and PhD Curricula
Nov 06, 2018
Sound Education Conference 2018 Panel 4: Audio Teaching Strategies for History Podcasts
Nov 02, 2018
Sound Education Conference 2018 Panel 2: Lessons from Radiolab
Nov 01, 2018
Sound Education Conference Panel 3: Sound Design and Music for Educational Audio
Nov 01, 2018
Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Gender, Authorship, and the Visionary Text
Oct 31, 2018
For Trump's Evangelicals, the Inconvenient Teachings of Christ
Oct 30, 2018
Author Discussion: Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam
Oct 26, 2018
Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
Oct 22, 2018
Taproot: Stories of Nature and Restoration
Oct 17, 2018
The Public Practice of the Abrahamic Religions
Oct 15, 2018
Rethinking Malaria: The Role of Faith & Community in Saving Lives
Oct 15, 2018
Innovative Ministry with Cornelia Holden, MDiv ’03
Oct 15, 2018
Building Bridges: Refugee, Asylum & Immigration Advocacy at Harvard
Oct 11, 2018
Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual, Gender, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China
Oct 04, 2018
On Exile and Elsewhere: André Aciman in Conversation with Benjamin Balint
Oct 03, 2018
The Future of the Study of Abrahamic Traditions
Sep 26, 2018
Integrating Islamic Studies Within Religious Studies
Sep 26, 2018
The Comparative Study of the Abrahamic Religions: Heuristic Gains and Cognitive Pitfalls
Sep 25, 2018
The Qur’an and Scriptural Studies
Sep 25, 2018
Saving Stories: Religious Literacy as Social Responsibility
Sep 19, 2018
From Script to Screen: How Content is Made and Why It Matters
Sep 19, 2018
Entertaining Religion: Themes, People, and Plots in Entertainment Media
Sep 19, 2018
Making Audiences: How What We Watch Shapes Who We Are
Sep 19, 2018
Religious Literacy and Business: Media & Entertainment Symposium Keynote
Sep 19, 2018
Hindu View of Life: Speaking For and Against Oneself
Sep 17, 2018
Writing and the Art of Attention
Sep 13, 2018
Ousmane Kane's Keynote: The Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa
Sep 12, 2018
Role of Sufi Orders in Maintaining Spiritual and Intellectual Links
Sep 12, 2018
Prayers, Invocations, and the Talismanic Tradition
Sep 12, 2018
Re-evalutating the Historic Core Curriculum
Sep 12, 2018
Jihadi Ideology: What is New, What is Not?
Sep 12, 2018
New Intellectual Connections
Sep 12, 2018
Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, and Difference
Aug 29, 2018
Cultivating Resilience in Chaplaincy: Keynote
May 24, 2018
Ritual Apparitions and a Buddhist Theory of Film
May 23, 2018
2018 Diploma Awarding Ceremony at Harvard Divinity School
May 23, 2018
RPP Colloquium w/ Ben Ferencz: Ethics, Law & Policy in Promoting a New Internat'l Security Paradigm
May 03, 2018
Cultivating Resilience in Chaplaincy: An Interview
Apr 22, 2018
#sayhername: Recovering Zilpha Elaw’s Rebellious Evangelicalism
Apr 21, 2018
Making Disciples: Women, Missions, and Colonial Education in the Early 20th-Century Philippines
Apr 16, 2018
2018 Billings Prize Finals
Apr 12, 2018
The Liturgy of Home: Terry Tempest Williams
Apr 11, 2018
Divinity Dialogues: 2018 Gomes Honorees
Apr 10, 2018
Arvo Pärt's White Light: A Panel and Performance
Mar 24, 2018
Carry Me (Tara Refuge) by Satigata
Mar 01, 2018
RPP Colloquium: Ministry to the Marginal: The Power of Partnerships
Feb 28, 2018
The End of White Christian America: A Conversation with E.J. Dionne and Robert P. Jones
Feb 19, 2018
Dharma Gaze: Practices of Buddhism and Poetry—An Evening with Anne Waldman
Feb 13, 2018
RPP Colloquium: Why Nonviolent Civil Resistance Works
Feb 06, 2018
Claiming God's Peace When Whiteness Stands Its Ground
Feb 04, 2018
RPP Colloquium: The Church as a Reconciling Presence in a World of Conflict
Jan 24, 2018
Religious Literacy and Government Symposium: Panel on Middle Tennessee
Dec 07, 2017
Religious Literacy and Government Symposium: Panel on the Greater Boston Area
Dec 06, 2017
Religious Literacy and Government Symposium: Panel on the Arizona-Mexico Border
Dec 06, 2017
Religious Literacy and Government Symposium: Wrap-up Panel and Closing Remarks
Dec 06, 2017
Religious Literacy and Government Symposium: Keynote Address by Shaun Casey, MDiv ’83, ThD ’98
Dec 05, 2017
James Luther Adams in Unitarian Universalist History
Nov 29, 2017
E.J. Dionne: Fighting for Justice with an Open Heart
Nov 16, 2017
FBI and Religion Scholars: Reflecting on the Past 25 Years
Nov 15, 2017
South Asian Religions Colloquium (SARC): James Mallinson
Nov 15, 2017
Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy: Toward an Ecological Ethics for the Anthropocene
Nov 13, 2017
Enclosed Gardens Revealed: The Concept of Virginity in Medieval Jewish Culture
Nov 08, 2017
Fighting for Justice with an Open Heart: Conviction, Empathy, and the Niebuhrian Imperative
Nov 07, 2017
Diversity and Explorations 2017: Keynote by Davíd Carrasco
Nov 07, 2017
Look Inside, Walk Outside: How to Develop Inner Peace While Living in the Modern World
Nov 06, 2017
Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas—Faculty Book Event
Nov 05, 2017
Journeys: Bridging the Us/Them Divide in the Global Refugee Crisis
Oct 30, 2017
Current Challenges and Opportunities of Building a Shared Society in Israel
Oct 28, 2017
Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration Panel One
Oct 18, 2017
Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration Panel Three
Oct 17, 2017
Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration Keynote Address
Oct 17, 2017
Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration Panel Four
Oct 17, 2017
Divinity Dialogues: Public Voice and Charlottesville
Oct 10, 2017
Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings—Faculty Book Event
Oct 09, 2017
RPP Colloquium: The Restorative Justice Approach
Oct 04, 2017
Reformation and Racial Taxonomies: An Underexplored Narrative of Modernity
Sep 27, 2017
The Ear of the Heart: Silence, Listening, and the Monastery
Sep 25, 2017
Thoreau Bicentennial: Celebrating Henry David’s 200th Birthday at HDS
Sep 19, 2017
Barren Landscapes and Open Spaces
Sep 15, 2017
The Reformation Era and the Unintended Secularization of Western Society
Sep 11, 2017
Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, and Difference 2017
Aug 31, 2017
HDS Convocation 2017: Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, Prophetic Fightback
Aug 30, 2017
2017 Diploma Awarding Ceremony at Harvard Divinity School
May 26, 2017
2017 Multireligious Commencement Service
May 23, 2017
The Religion of Unity and the Unity of Religion: Remembering the Bahá’í Faith and Bahá’u’lláh
May 08, 2017
Whatever Happened to Secularization? A Talk by Harvey Cox
May 05, 2017
Harvard President Drew Faust's Remarks at HDS Bicentennial
May 05, 2017
Religion and Nonviolence: Past and Present with Cornel West and Sasha Dehghani
May 05, 2017
In Conversation: The Bicentennial Gomes Honorees
May 05, 2017
Violence and Justice: The Missing Piece in Our Anti-Poverty Agenda
May 04, 2017
The Women’s Studies Revolution: the Room Where it Happened
May 02, 2017
Religion Matters: HDS at Harvard University
Apr 29, 2017
The Market as God
Apr 25, 2017
"To Buy a Pair of Shoes," by Kwame Dawes
Apr 24, 2017
"Feverish," by Joanna Klink
Apr 24, 2017
"Genesis Suite," by Kim Garcia
Apr 19, 2017
"It's Good to Sit Down with a Racist Every Now and Then," by Naomi Shihab Nye
Apr 18, 2017
The Logic of Prayer in Contemporary China
Apr 18, 2017
2017 Billings Prize Finals
Apr 11, 2017
Beyond Militarization: The Role of Religious Communities in the Struggle for Justice and Peace
Apr 04, 2017
Islam, Tradition, and Resources for Nonviolent Conflict Transformation
Mar 21, 2017
Religion and the Sphere of Care and Cooperation
Feb 27, 2017