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 Divinity at HDS.

Although the U.S. is a multireligious society in which an increasing number of people check "none" to the question of religious affiliation, historically the Bible has exerted an enormous influence in many domains of American life, and arguably it continues to do so. It is important, therefore, to ask what it means that Christianity was formed, and its sacred scriptures were written, in the ancient Mediterranean world where enslavement was ubiquitous.... Read more about Video: Enslavement in the Formation of Earliest Christianity

On November 16, 2022, Susan Hayward discussed religious literacy in international affairs for the final session of the Fall 2022 Council on Foreign Relations Academic Webinar Series. Susan Hayward is the Associate Director of the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative.... Read more about Video: Council on Foreign Relations Academic Webinar: Religious Literacy in International Affairs with Susan Hayward

Harvard Crimson writers Ellie S. Klibaner-Schiff and Mariah M. Norman cover the new HDS student organization Jews for Liberation, featuring S. Lovett-Graff and Francesca Rubinson, two HDS students involved in Religion and Public Life's Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative (RCPI).... Read more about RPL in the News: "Meet Jews for Liberation, the HDS Student Group Bringing Politics and Spirituality Together"