(RNS) — 'I'm really trying to shift the discourse about who can do theology and what counts as theological source material,' says the first woman dean of Howard University’s divinity school and the ...

(RNS) — When we cut each other off, we deepen our division and we make our world smaller and our opportunities to learn, fewer. (RNS) — I’m a secular person. As a co-founder of MoveOn, the political ...

Harvard Divinity School professor of African American Religious Studies Terrence L. Johnson discussed changing the conversation around reparations in a virtual lecture Monday evening. The fourth ...

Harvard Divinity School announced last week it was pausing its Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative, a program that focused on Israel-Palestine as a case study. On Wednesday (April 2), it cut the ...

University is one of only three Catholic institutions among the top 10 in 2021 QS World Rankings Boston College rose to seventh overall in Theology, Divinity & Religious Studies in the 2021 QS World ...

Vanderbilt University Divinity School announced it is one of 84 theological schools selected for a grant to develop a project for students "exploring alternative pathways in ministry," the institution ...

Last month, the Yale Divinity School was among 12 institutions who received $1.5 million to research and develop new ministry models for young adults. The money originates from Lilly Endowment Inc., a ...

The Harvard Divinity School launched a new program in Religion and Public Life this month, its first new degree program in 50 years. The program is aimed at studying the ways religion and civic life ...

New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

Author Ray Waddle’s interest in religious issues may have started when he was a kid growing up in the Broadmoor neighborhood in Shreveport. “The neighborhood was surrounded by houses of worship. What ...

A cultural anthropologist of Black religious experience has been named dean of Harvard Divinity School, beginning Jan. 1. Marla Frederick, a professor of religion and culture at Emory University’s ...

In many Western contexts, organized religion is declining, often due to hypocrisy, politicization or shallow faith. But ...