Eunil David Cho

Dr. Eunil David Cho is Assistant Professor of Spiritual Care and Counseling and Co-Director of the Center for Practical Theology at BUSTH. He is a practical theologian whose research in pastoral theology and spiritual care engages narrative studies, psychology of religion, trauma studies, intercultural studies, critical race theory, and religion and health. He teaches courses in spiritual care, chaplaincy, practical theology, and contextual analysis.

His first monograph, Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience, was published by Brill in 2024 in the Theology in Practice series. He is currently co-editing the second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology with Bonnie Miller-McLemore and Mindy McGarrah Sharp. His articles have appeared in Pastoral Psychology, Journal of Pastoral Theology, Theology Today, and Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. He currently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Pastoral Theology and co-chair of the Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion.

In partnership with Dr. Shelly Rambo at BUSTH and Dr. Eric Brown at BU Medical School, Dr. Cho also leads the Trauma-Responsive Congregations project, a multi-year Lilly Endowment-funded research initiative. Beyond academia, he is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and has served the church at regional and national levels, including as Moderator of the Synod of the Mid-Atlantic from 2023 to 2024.