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RCPI Educational Opportunities

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RCPI takes an innovative approach to educating emerging leaders to help them craft contextualized approaches to understanding and resolving conflict. A full year course sequence combines classroom and experiential education with an opportunity to develop...

Master of Religion and Public Life

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The Master of Religion and Public Life (MRPL) is a one-year graduate program designed for experienced professionals who wish to develop in-depth knowledge of the ways religion influences public life in their field. The degree is an opportunity for...

Lauren Kerby Leaving HDS

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Dr. Lauren R. Kerby, the RPL’s religious literacy specialist, will be leaving HDS in early May. In her five years at HDS, including three years in her full-time role, Lauren has played a key role in the design and implementation of the Religious Literacy...

Remembering Sid Topol (1924-2022)

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It is with our deepest condolences that we share the passing of Sidney Topol, a longtime friend of Harvard University through the Topol Family Foundation’s support of numerous efforts for peace-making. May his memory be a blessing. Hilary Rantisi...

Spring 2026 Summit Reader

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Capital, Conscience, and Knowledge: Religion and the Common Good in a Market-Driven Society Thursday, March 26 - Friday, March 27, 2026 Keynote Panel: Religion, Capital, and the University: Purpose, Power, and Democratic Norms Speaker Readings Benjamin M...

Video: Religion, Race, and the Double Helix of White Supremacy

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On February 6, 2023, HDS hosted the second installment in the the six-part series Religion and the Legacies of Slavery: A Series of Public Online Conversations. The featured speakers were David F. Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church...

RPL in the News: "Harvard Divinity School Hosts Conversation on the Presence of Enslavement in Early Christian Stories"

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Harvard Crimson writer Tyler J. H. Ory covers the first event in the HDS series of public online conversations titled “Religion and Legacies of Slavery,” which aims to build on Harvard’s landmark Legacy of Slavery report released in April 2022. The event...

Video: Memory, History, and the Ethics of Reparations

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On February 27, HDS hosted the fourth installment in the the six-part series Religion and the Legacies of Slavery: A Series of Public Online Conversations. The featured speaker was Terrence L. Johnson, Professor of African American Religious Studies at...

Video: Enslavement in the Formation of Earliest Christianity

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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...

RPL Fellows in the Professions

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RPL Fellows in the Professions, who are part of RPL's Religious Literacy in the Professions Initiative, will join a cohort of Fellows who will work closely with Dr. Diane L. Moore, Dr. Hussein Rashid, other faculty, and staff colleagues in service of the...

Meet the 2020-21 Fellows in Conflict and Peace: Taurean Webb

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My name is Taurean Webb. I am on faculty at Garrett Seminary, on the campus of Northwestern University. There, I teach religion and race, and I also direct the campus research center that is dedicated to the study of Black religious experience across the...

Religion and Public Life Spring 2024 Summit

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Lead with Love: Just Peacebuilding and Moral Imagination Friday, May 3, 2024 – Saturday, May 4, 2024 Swartz Hall, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts Join us at the inaugural Religion and Public Life Summit to reconnect, network, share our...