Author: Jaclyn K Jones
Reverend Dr. Harald A. Frey (STH ’55, STH ’61)
Reverend Dr. Harald A. Frey (STH ’55, STH ’61) Harald Andreas Christian Frey was born near Stuttgart, Germany the ninth of 13 children of Gottlob Frey, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Maria. As a teenager in Germany during World War II, Harald endured hardships including bombings and food shortages, as well as a separation from […]
Bill Monnie publishes Selma and its Aftermath: A Photographic Journey
Bill Monnie attended STH from 1965-1967. Selma and its Aftermath attempts to convey a sense of “ground-up” history by portraying through photography the actual people who were literally the “boots on the ground” activists. These individuals not only changed history but through their courage and actions changed their own personal histories by registering to vote and […]
Duane Miller (STH '61, GRS '70) publishes a memoir
In this memoir, Duane Miller (STH ’61, GRS ’70) discusses what it was like to be a student at Boston University School of Theology and what the school meant to him. A meme provides an automatic belief regarding what’s important, an unspoken understanding of whom to trust or whom to distrust and fear, a view […]
Robert Bolton (STH '60, STH '69) 1979 book featured as one of 50 Psychology Classics
Robert Bolton (STH ’60, STH ’69) published People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others and Resolve Conflicts in 1979 and it was featured in Tom Butler-Bowdon’s 50 Psychology Classics along with chapters on Freud, Adler, Jung, Karen Horney, Anna Freud, Eric Berne, Erik Erikson, Victor Frankl, William James, Abraham Maslow, Pavolv, Piaget, Carl Rogers, B. F. Skinner, […]
Dr. Stephen Finlan (STH '13) publishes Sacrifice and Atonement
Stephen Finlan (STH ’13) publishes Sacrifice and Atonement: Psychological Motives and Biblical Patterns. Beneath the commonplace affirmation that Jesus “paid for our sins” lie depths of implication: Did God demand a blood sacrifice to assuage divine anger? Is sacrifice (consciously or unconsciously) intended to induce the deity to show favor? What underlies the various metaphors for atonement […]
Tex Sample (STH '60, GRS '64) publishes A Christian Justice for the Common Good
Tex Sample (STH ’60, GRS ’64) published his thirteenth book this April, 2016, entitled A Christian Justice for the Common Good, Abingdon Press. Sample is the Robert B. and Kathleen Rogers Professor Emeritus of Church and Society at the Saint Paul School of Theology. This spring he also received the Invictus Award for Social Justice […]
Youth Group Leader at Londonderry UMC in New Hampshire
LUMC Youth Group Leader Job Description Londonderry United Methodist Church 258 Mammoth Road Londonderry, NH 03053 General Purpose of Position: To bring youth into personal relationship with Christ and furthering them in their journey of discipleship. Organizational Relationship and Supervision: Youth group leader reports to the Pastor and Staff Parish Relations Committee (SPRC) for spiritual […]
2016 Travel Seminar to Cuba: Times of Transition in a Revolutionary Nation
Cuba: times of transition in a revolutionary nation By Omar Brown (STH ’16) Going to Cuba with the Boston University School of Theology was a dream for many of the participants in the 2016 Study-Travel Seminar to Matanzas and Havana, co-sponsored with the General Board of Church and Society of the UMC. Whether we came […]
Heather Josselyn-Cranson (STH '00, STH '05) Publishes "The Reason Why We Sing"
What is music during the worship service supposed to do? Dr. Heather Josselyn-Cranson proposes that there are several roles for music in worship and that these roles are manifested in various worshiping traditions. In this book, she hopes to give readers a renewed respect for their own traditions, but also a new-found understanding of the […]
Lori Bievenour (STH '03) welcomed new daughter
Lori (Godich) Bievenour (STH ’03) & Torrey Bievenour welcomed their daughter, Tess Laiken Bievenour, to the world on January 9th, 2016. Lori serves as Senior Pastor of St. Peter’s United Church of Christ in Carmel, Indiana.