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Mental Health

New BU Research Project Aims to Shift Mental Health Focus Beyond Symptoms to Meaning and Well-Being

November 3, 2025

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Archaeology

What Ancient Pottery Can Teach Us About Everyday Lives in the Time of Jesus and Herod the Great

January 14, 2025

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Religion and Ukraine

BU Student Researched How Russian Religion Fuels War in Ukraine

December 5, 2024

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Music

Liberation through Rhythm: BU Ethnomusicologist Studies History and Present of African Beats

August 20, 2024

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2023 in Review

Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and Surprising Findings from BU Researchers

December 11, 2023

Photo: STH professor Rebecca Copeland poses for a photo on a bright green lawn. A white woman wearing glasses, a white blouse, black cardigan, and long beaded necklace, stands with hands placed in front of her. Foreground leaves frame her and an old church-like building is shown in the blurred background.

Climate Change

What Can the Bible Teach Us about Fighting Climate Change?

August 15, 2023

Photo: Eugenio Menegon (left) poses for a photo with Daryl Ireland (right). Menegon, a man with white gray hair and wearing black glasses, a light blue, checkered collared shirt and navy blue sweater smiles and poses with arms crossed. Ireland, a man wearing glasses, light blue collared shirt, gray tie, and brown blazer, smiles and poses with hands in pockets. Both stand in front of a projector displaying a representation of the global network they're working on.

Christianity

What’s behind Boom of Christianity in China?

February 2, 2023

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Mindfulness and Meditation

Can Meditation and Mindfulness Help Cancer Patients Thrive?

March 29, 2022

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Mental Health

Why Are So Many Religious Leaders Facing Stress and Burnout?

March 17, 2022

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Mental Health

In 20 Years since September 11, Military Suicides Have Risen Sharply. Why?

September 10, 2021

Human Rights

As Taliban Retakes Afghanistan, Experts Say Biden Administration Made Strategic Blunders

August 16, 2021

Portrait of Wheelock College Associate Professor, Kathleen Corriveau, standing outside what looks like the entrance to a church in shale blue sweater and black dress.

Religion

How Do Children Develop Religious Beliefs?

June 21, 2021

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Africana Religion

From Secrecy to #WitchTok: How the Internet Is Demystifying Africana Religions

November 30, 2020

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Battling Bigotry

How Bigotry Has Shaped Civil Rights, Marriage Equality, and Now the Coronavirus Pandemic

May 29, 2020

As the US experiences the largest outbreak of measles since 2000, BU Jewish bioethics expert says vaccinations are a religious duty.

Infectious Diseases

Measles Outbreak: Getting Vaccinated Is “a Religious Obligation”

May 7, 2019

Religion

Christianity Can Be Good for the Environment

June 14, 2018

Dana Robert, Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission at Boston University School of Theology, and member elected to the American Academy of Sciences

Theology

STH’s Dana Robert Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

May 9, 2017

Portrait of terrorism expert Jessica Stern, a research professor at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

Social Sciences

Why Terrorists Kill

April 13, 2017

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Judaic Studies

Resistance of the Soul

June 3, 2016

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Education

Inside US Islamic Schools

April 26, 2016

Inside US Islamic Schools