Welcome to the Harvard Graduate Christian Community (HGCC) homepage! We serve students at a number of Harvard graduate schools: Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Education (GSE), Design (GSD), Divinity (HDS), and more.

We are a community of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty who challenge each other to submit our lives to Jesus Christ. His message changes all aspects of our lives - spiritual, intellectual, and relational. We therefore seek to unite our faith and scholarship through prayer, worship, study of scripture, discussion, and more. We welcome those who do not come as Christians to join us in exploring who Jesus really is.

The HGCC is a university-recognized student organization supported by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and affiliated with the Harvard chaplains.

Announcements: (last updated 14 Feb 2012)

• Welcome new and returning students / scholars!

  Join our email list by clicking here! (This is our main method of communication within the community, and it's the best way to stay up-to-date on what's happening.) Stay tuned to the email list for announcements about activities as we start the 2011-2012 academic year.

  We encourage those new to campus to be connected to a local church. We have compiled a list of local churches, along with contact information for hosts at each church who would be delighted at the chance to introduce you to their community.

• Highlights of Upcoming Activities:

  • Take a look at an abbreviated schedule of upcoming activities but make sure to sign up for our email list to receive announcements with more details
  • An evening with Michael Lindsay, Saturday 31 March at 7pm
  • Various groups of students and scholars from our community meet weekly to explore together in a smaller setting who Jesus is and what implications that has for our lives - academic and in general. They will walk through a book of the Bible together, or read challenging stories from a Christian perspective, or something else. All the groups have started meeting and are welcoming new members to join them! Sign up for the email list to receive regular updates about these. This year, our small groups are the primary place for meeting weekly in Christian community, and everyone is encouraged to consider committing to one of the groups.

• Other Information:

  • Veritas Forum talks are now online. Listen to them and other worthwhile talks here. A more recent recording of a Forum with Vinoth Ramachandra and Diana Eck can be found here
  
  
  • Did you miss the Following Christ conference? Do you want to listen to one of the talks again? Check them out here!
  
  

To learn more about our shield and the meaning of the logo "Veritas," click here.

Sponsored in part by the Graduate Student Council.
Top photograph of the Veritas Shield on Memorial Hall of Harvard University by Hector Velazquez.