Author: Kimberly Macdonald
Dean Moore Addresses the BUSTH Community via Zoom
May 3, 2020 – Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore gives heartfelt words of thanks to the School of Theology community directly through Zoom video recording. The transcript is posted below for those needing to follow along. Thank you! Beloved community, I want to say a huge thank you for being such a remarkable community through this […]
Celebratory Renaming of BUSTH Community Center
Tuesday, April 28 – Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore’s retirement celebration was featured in today’s “Close-Up,” BU Today’s weekly photography feature. The moment captured via Zoom on April 22 features an elated Dean Moore, reacting to the news delivered by Boston University President Robert Brown that the BUSTH Community Center was renamed to the Mary Elizabeth and […]
Chinese Christian Poster Project Connects US and China through History
While many people are familiar with Chinese communist propaganda posters, a lesser-told tale exists in the Chinese Christian propaganda posters of the early twentieth century. From 1927 to 1949, bright, eye-catching posters were displayed in tea shops, pasted on city walls, hung on temple gates, or unfurled for street evangelism. They were the most common Christian visual […]
BUSTH Launches New Online Lifelong Learning Program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kimberly Macdonald Director, Office of Communications 617-358-1858 kmacd@bu.edu BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY LAUNCHES NEW ONLINE LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAM Boston, MA – April 21, 2020 – Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) is pleased to announce the launch of its new Online Lifelong Learning program. Two primary elements of the new […]
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for April 2020
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for the month of April 2020. Cristian De La Rosa: “Latina Women and the Church: Mujeristas y Nepantleras,” Nevertheless She Leads: Postcolonial Women’s Leadership for the Church. United Methodist General Board of Higher Education, 2020. Walter Fluker: Walking with God: The Sermon Series […]
School of Theology Announces Celebration for Dean Moore’s Retirement
At the beginning of the 2019-2020 academic year, Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore announced she would step down as dean of the school at the end of the year, after over a decade of service. The School of Theology will present a Retirement Celebration day on Wednesday, April 22 to honor Dean Moore’s unwavering dedication to […]
Compassion at the Tomb – an Easter Message from Dean Moore
Compassion at the Tomb The empty tomb is the most vivid symbol of Easter, but the women who first went to the tomb did not know it was empty. They went there to anoint their beloved friend and teacher, Jesus. They carried deep sorrow. Jesus had died on a cross with no tender kisses at […]
A Good Friday Message from Dean Moore
Dear Beloved Community, As Christians traverse Holy Week and Jews honor Passover, we travel in the unfamiliar landscape of the coronavirus, marked by waiting. I offer the poem below as a meditation on waiting – full-bodied and full-spirited waiting. May this Holy season be a Holy journey for you and yours, and may the time […]
Shelly Rambo Published in Christian Century
April 7, 2020 – Assistant Professor Shelly Rambo has been published in The Christian Century today, with a piece titled The Hell of Holy Saturday. “In the Gospel accounts, Holy Saturday’s witness is enacted in the stumbling steps of Mary. Like many mourners on the front lines of the pandemic, her body is weighed down with grief,” […]
Faculty Members Write Resources for Faith Leaders during COVID-19 Pandemic
Professor Karen B. Westerfield Tucker and Associate Professor Shelly Rambo have been keeping busy at home. Not only are they teaching their full class schedules remotely, but they are working with other church and faith leaders to write resources for pastors and chaplains to use during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I was involved with several other […]