Changing the World
Our alumni go on to work for social justice in a variety of ways. The Alumni Office offers a job board for recent alumni and students looking for experiences to expand their knowledge. We also have a Pastor Scholar program administered by the Office of Contextual Education and the new Associate Dean for Community Life and Lifelong Learning is developing a robust Lifelong program for our alumni and friends.
Notable Alumni/ae
Prominent alumni/ae of BUSTH include the presidents of Methodist institutions such as DePauw University,[5] dozens of Methodist bishops, and numerous prominent teachers and pastors. Important leaders who graduated from the school include the following:
- Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, President of Suffrage Association;
- Samuel Logan Brengle, Salvation Army theologian;
- Dr. Helen Kim, Korean educator;
- Rev.Dr. K.U. Abraham, now known as Rt.Rev.Dr. Abraham Mar Paulos, Bishop of the Mar Thoma Church, India;
- Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, theologian;
- Dr. Georgia Harkness, Methodist woman theologian;
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, positive thinker and founder of Guideposts magazine;
- Rev. Dr. Steven W. Brown, Homiletics professor at RTS and nationally syndicated broadcaster;
- Rev. John McCullough, head of Church World Service;
- Andy Crouch, “emerging church” theorist;
- Dr. Amos Yong, pentecostal theologian;
- Rev. Charles Boss, head of Methodist Peace Fellowship;
- George L. Fox – one of the “four chaplains” on the USAT Dorchester in WWII;
- Ralph Edward Dodge – a Bishop of The Methodist Church in Rhodesia;
- S. Clifton Ives (M.Div., 1963; D.Min., 1983) – a Bishop of the United Methodist Church;
- Garfield Bromley Oxnam – a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church;
- Dallas Lore Sharp – (1870- ) – Minister, university professor, and author;
- Woodie W. White (S.T.B., 1961) – a Bishop of the United Methodist Church;
- Carlton Young, editor of Methodist hymnals, liturgical scholar, and famous hymnologist;
- Samuel DeWitt Proctor, famous African-American preacher and civil rights leader;
- Ruth Duck, noted hymn writer;
- Walter G. Muelder, ecumenical leader, theorist of the “responsible society,” and shaper of Christian social ethics;
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., noted civil rights activist and Nobel laureate