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Theology

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History

Keeping Seeds Alive If the World as We Know It Ends

February 10, 2025

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Religion

“I Love This Work, but It’s Killing Me”: The Unique Toll of Being a Spiritual Leader Today

August 6, 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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Africana Religion

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

November 30, 2020

Cambodian musicians perform traditional cambodian music and chant in Cambodia.

Power of Music

How Cambodian Music Recalls Ancestors and Brings Comfort

November 25, 2019

Social Sciences

How to Live in a Divided Nation

May 22, 2017

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

Steven Sandage, director of research at BU’s Albert & Jessie Danielsen Institute, is involved in a two-year study researching humility among religious leaders.

Psychology

Studying the Benefits of Humility

March 27, 2017

Koran

Public Policy

What Islam Could Teach Donald Trump about Democracy and Freedom

March 10, 2017

What Islam Could Teach Donald Trump about Democracy and Freedom