“I came to religious life with the question of what was meaningful about existence,” said Brahmacharini Durga, a monastic in the Ramakrishna Order and a special student at Harvard Divinity School (HDS ...

MADDISON TENNEY: Welcome to the 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 ...

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Harvard Divinity School is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that educates students both in the pursuit of the academic study of religion and in preparation for leadership in ...

In this episode, we’re going to trace these historical lines from here at Marsh Chapel in 1962 to the present moment of psychedelic spirituality, and to see what role psychedelics might play in the ...

Religious life, like everything else in life, has been drastically impacted by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Here at Harvard and in the Boston area, we’ve seen houses of worship closed, religious ...

On September 29, 2022, Gerald J. Steinacher, James A. Rawley Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who specializes in the history of the Holocaust and its immediate aftermath, ...

This summer, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued two major decisions with religion at the center of the cases. In Groff v. DeJoy, the court bolstered protections for workers asking ...

Origen was born in Alexandria in the late second century to Christian parents who gave him a pagan name: Ôrigenês, “child of Horus,” the falcon-headed sky god of the Egyptian pantheon. His was a life ...

On December 6, 2022, the Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life invited the entire HDS community to Seasons of Light. As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, this beloved ...