On February 2, the thirteen Creative Callings congregational teams gathered at the School of Theology for the second “all-hub” gathering as part of the first year of the Creative Callings Innovation Hub. Through structured workshops and informal conversations, teams surfaced the questions enlivening their congregational life together and discussed future questions, ministry opportunities, and possibilities for connecting […]
Dr. Stephanie Arel (STH Practical Theology ’14), an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, recently curated a Syndicate Network Symposium engaging Humanity in God’s Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration by Claudia Welz. Arel introduced Welz’s work, highlighting Welz’s approach to dignity. Arel writes,”In Humanity in God’s Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration, Claudia Welz interprets the […]
The Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion will be held in San Diego November 23-26, 2019. The full Call for Proposals is available online, as well as in pdf form here. Proposals are due March 4, 2019! A few units of interest are included here, and all units can be viewed here. Practical […]
Nelson Cowan, a doctoral candidate in Liturgical Studies at BU School of Theology, recently reviewed Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil: Theology and Practice by STH Practical Theology alum Dr. Christopher James. Please see the beginning of Cowan’s review below and visit the Homiletics website for the full review Homiletic is a scholarly forum in homiletics and a review of publications in […]
We were thrilled to welcome Dr. Kathleen Cahalan to the School of Theology on October 24, 2018, to give the Center for Practical Theology’s Eleventh Annual Lecture. Dr. Cahalan presented the “The Grammar of Vocation: Changing the Way We Talk about Our Callings,” and Creative Callings Innovation Hub pastors Rev. Laura Ruth Jarrett (Hope Central Church), Rev. Isaac […]
Congratulations to Dr. Courtney Goto on her recently published Taking on Practical Theology: The Idolization of Context and the Hope of Community. Published with Brill, in Taking on Practical Theology, Dr. Goto “explores the regnant paradigm that shapes knowledge production and that preserves power, privilege, and historic communal injury even as scholars intend to enlighten and transform […]
The Center for Practical Theology and Boston University School of Theology are pleased to welcome Mr. Ted Daniels, President of the Society for Financial Education and Professional Development, Inc. (SFEPD), to lead a Personal Money Management Seminar. The seminar will be held in the School of Theology Community Center (B23/24) on Monday, November 5, 2018. Pizza […]
In 2017, we were thrilled to welcome Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier as the Guest Lecturer for the Tenth Annual Lecture. Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier presented on “Wild Child Practical Theology,” and doctoral candidate Yara González-Justiniano and Dr. Rady Roldán-Figueroa, STH Associate Professor of the History of Christianity, responded to Dr. Conde-Frazier’s presentation. We were pleased to welcome our colleagues at BU […]
Jackie Blue, a doctoral candidate in Practical Theology at BU School of Theology, recently reviewed A Pursued Justice: Black Preaching from the Great Migration to Civil Rights by Kenyatta Gilbert. Please see the beginning of Blue’s review below and visit the Homiletics website for the full review Homiletic is a scholarly forum in homiletics and a review of publications in religious communication. […]
Call for Submissions to Practical Matters Issue 12 Call for Submissions New Directions in Religious Practices and Practical Theology: Revolutions and Re-Imaginations Deadline: December 1, 2018 practicalmattersjournal.org/submissions At the nexus of practical theology and the study of religious practices, what is the “state of the field”—and where are we going? The past ten years have seen […]