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New Book by Visiting Researcher, Gail Cafferata, Featured on Faith & Leadership
“I didn’t know anyone else at that point who had closed a church, because no one in our diocese had done it,” she said. “And then I thought, ‘I wonder if anybody’s ever done a study?’” This question, according to a recent article shared on Faith & Leadership (a resource for Christian leaders, More
CPT Co-Director, Courtney Goto, wins BU Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching
Congratulations Dr. Courtney Goto! The Metcalf Cup and Prize is the highest teaching honor at Boston University. Dr. Goto was nominated by students and vetted by a University team in an extensive process. We are so happy to celebrate alongside Dr. Goto and the rest of the BU STH community. Read more... More
Congratulations, 2020 Practical Theology Graduates!
Congratulations to the 2020 Practical Theology PhD graduates! Dr. Kathryn House: The Afterlife of Evangelical Purity Culture: Wounds, Legacies, and Impact Dr. Timothy Snyder: Modern Work and Meaning: Towards a Lived Theology of Work
PhD Student, Scott Donahue-Martens, Wins Preaching Prize with Timely Sermon
The Center for Practical Theology offers our congratulations to PhD student, Scott Donahue-Martens, who was recently honored as the recipient of The Massachusetts Bible Society's 2020 Donald A. Wells Preaching Prize! Donahue-Martens is the third winner from Boston University School of Theology in the last eight years of the competition. Those... More
STH Practical Theology alumnus Dr. Montague Williams wins the Outstanding Dissertation Award
Dr. Montague Williams (STH PhD in Practical Theology, 2018), was presented with the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Wesleyan Theological Society at its annual meeting on March 7, 2020. This award is given to the individual whose doctoral dissertation is deemed an outstanding scholarly contribution to a research area related... More
Call for Submissions: Practical Matters
Issue 14: Exclusion, Belonging, and Becoming in Religious Communities Call for Submissions: practicalmattersjournal.org/submissions Deadline: October 1, 2020 Many religious traditions uphold values of justice, community, and belonging, yet many also occupy ambivalent positions vis-à-vis systems and acts of exclusionary violence. Sometimes religion is the target and other times the perpetrator. The study of... More
Creative Callings Innovation Hub Gathering at Boston University School of Theology
A Note from the Editor: Upon careful deliberation, we have decided to continue to share CPT Today content in the coming months, as we work remotely from our homes. While we have needed to postpone some of our scheduled content, we hope to continue to highlight the work of theologians... More
Center for Practical Theology at AAR
As the American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, Nov 23-26, approaches, plan ahead to attend the sessions with Center for Practical Theology affiliates! CPT Co-Director Theodore Hickman-Maynard presides at the Ethnography and Theology Workshop. The theme is “Representation and Normativity: Crises and Possibilities. Additionally, Dean Teddy... More
The Center for Practical Theology’s Twelfth Annual Lecture with Dr. David Jacobsen
We were thrilled to welcome Boston University School of Theology's own Dr. David Schnasa Jacobsen to give the Center for Practical Theology’s Twelfth Annual Lecture on October 23, 2019. Dr. Jacobsen presented “Preaching that Pushing Back: Differentiation and the Principle of Identity in Homiletical Theology," and Boston University School of Theology's... More
Call for Proposals: Association of Practical Theology Biennial 2020
“This is my body”: The Human Body as Site for Intersectional Discourse on Practical Theology and Bioethics Call for Proposals You are invited to submit proposals for individual papers or panels on the 2020 APT Biennial Conference theme, “This is my body”: The Human Body as Site for Intersectional Discourse on Practical Theology... More