HDS and Slavery: Family Stories
Harvard Divinity School was founded nearly forty years after slavery was abolished in Massachusetts, yet many of our school’s founders and early students were intimately familiar with both enslavement...
15 Feb 20231h 30min
Religion, Race, and the Double Helix of White Supremacy
It has long been a historical truism that, in the early modern West, pseudoscientific racial hierarchies replaced religious hierarchies as the dominant framework for understanding human difference and...
10 Feb 20231h 29min
William James and the Sick Soul
As part of Harvard Divinity School's annual William James Lectures on Religious Experience, Professor John Kaag presented "William James and the Sick Soul." This lecture discussed William James's 1895...
8 Feb 20231h 25min
Enslavement in the Formation of Earliest Christianity
This conversation was the first of the six-part series Religion and the Legacies of Slavery: A Series of Public Online Conversations. The featured speaker was Karen L. King, Hollis Professor of Divini...
8 Feb 20231h 30min
BMI 10th Anniversary: Phillip Henderson
This fall, Harvard Divinity School celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI). In honor of this anniversary, the community engaged in discussions of Buddhist ministry in...
5 Jan 20234min
Release Party for Peripheries 2022
Peripheries is a non-profit literary and arts journal established in 2017 that publishes artistic work that is, broadly understood, "peripheral"; work that explores the interstices between discourses,...
12 Des 202254min
Isaiah 45: 7–8 and from the Writings of Victor Cadette | From the Christian Tradition
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkn...
7 Des 20221min
From the Writings of Caroline Fox and Isaac Penington | From the Religious Society of Friends
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkn...
7 Des 202251s
