Tag: David Hempton

  • Nation & World

    Keeping home close after you leave it

    Exhibit explores themes of immigration, home, and belonging with art.

    9 minutes
    Car on fire.
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    Paulsell named interim Pusey Minister

    Harvard President Larry Bacow announced the appointment of Harvard Divinity School Professor Stephanie Paulsell as interim Pusey Minister at the Memorial Church.

    5 minutes
    Stephanie Paulsell inside Memorial Church.
  • Nation & World

    Gawande confronts the inevitable

    Death, imperfection, and rock ’n’ roll were all part of surgeon-author Atul Gawande’s conversation with Dean David Hempton at HDS convocation.

    4 minutes
    Atul Gawande and Dean Hempton
  • Nation & World

    An active role for the Divinity School

    A panel at Harvard Divinity School included the deans of the Law School, Business School, and Ed School. The focus was how the Divinity School could be of assistance.

    3 minutes
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    Embracing varieties of religious experience

    An interview with Dean David Hempton to mark the bicentennial of Harvard Divinity School.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Universities as peacemakers

    A panel of experts and scholars from a range of fields convened at Harvard Divinity School to explore the role that universities can play in forging interreligious dialogue and peacemaking.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Faith, hope, and government

    In Washington, D.C., two Harvard deans faced off in a discussion, “Religion and Politics in a World of Conflict,” explaining how leadership is vital to many nations to maintain a steady, open, middle path to resolving differences.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Deep devotion, explored

    Harvard Divinity School’s annual convocation included an address by Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies Stephanie Paulsell, who explored the theme of devotion in the texts of the Bible’s “Song of Songs,” and in the work of author Virginia Woolf.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sense where none seems possible

    Five panelists at Harvard Divinity School — including Dean David N. Hempton — grappled with the ways religion is sometimes used to justify acts of terror, covering as well the role of faith traditions in encouraging healing.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Lessons that lead toward peace

    The new dean of Harvard Divinity School, David Hempton, delivered a moving convocation address that recalled the violence from his past, and offered hope for the future.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A time was had by all

    A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.

    16 minutes
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    Hempton named Divinity School dean

    Harvard University President Drew Faust announced that David Hempton will become dean of Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1. Hempton, the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at the Divinity School, succeeds William A. Graham, who will step down from the post at the end of this academic year.

    4 minutes
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    Memorial Church search committee

    President Drew Faust has announced the appointment of a search advisory committee for the next minister of the Memorial Church.

    3 minutes