The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications and scholarly presentations for December 2025:
- Eunil David Cho
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“Response to Jay-Paul Hinds’ Paper ‘The Shepherd’s Black Sheep: African American Pastoral Theology in the Age of Afropessimism,’” Journal of Pastoral Theology, published online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2025.2585787
- Presentation: Keynote Speaker, “The Promise and Peril of Narrative Approaches to Pastoral Care,” Annual Fall-Winter Theological Colloquium, Methodist Theological University and Seminary, Seoul, Korea, November 22, 2025.
- Panelist: “Postcolonializing Scholarship, Teaching, and Mentoring for All People: Honoring and Celebrating the Contributions of Emmanuel Y. Lartey,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, 2025.
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- Anastasia Kidd
- Presentation, Conference Host: “Sacred Table: An Interfaith Gathering for Fat Liberation” on November 21st, 2025 at Boston University
- Filipe Maia
- Presentation: “Teología Política del Sin-Valor” [Political Theology of the Worthless] Primer Encuentro Internacional: Fetichismo, idolatría y dignidad humana, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia (hybrid event)
- Presentation: “My Very Dear Brother Wesley,” Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion (AAR), Wesleyan and Methodist Studies Unit.
- James McCarty
- Presentation: “Prison Abolition as Lived Religious Peacebuilding,” Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group, American Academy of Religion, November 23, 2025.
- Luis Menéndez-Antuña
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“Historiographies of Enslavement: The Unthought Body of the Captive in Galatians 4:1-9,” Harvard Theological Review 118.4 (2025), 665-690.
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“Métodos extraños: cómo la teoría queer/marica nos ayuda a comprender mejor la identidad en las primeras comunidades cristianas,” Reseña Bíblica 128.4 (2025), 54-63.
- Book Review: Jeremiah Coogan, Candida R. Moss, and Joseph A. Howley (eds.), Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE-300 CE (Oxford University Press, 2025). Enslavement and the Social History of Texts. SBL. Boston (November 24, 2025).
- Presentation: What is Critical in Critical Biblical Carceral Studies? Critical Carceral Studies and the Bible Consultation. SBL. Boston (November 22, 2025)
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Presentation: What (Who) are these Believers Selling? Property, Enslavement, and Belonging (Acts 2:43-47). SBL. Boston (November 25, 2025).
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- Luis Menéndez-Antuña, et al
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Editor (with Mitzi Smith and Raj Nadella): Oxford Handbook of Race, Diaspora, and the Bible (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025).
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- Rady Roldán-Figueroa
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“Quaker Roots in Jim Corbett’s Nonviolent Sanctuary: The Unrecognized Influence of the Pacifist Research Bureau and the Legal Scholar, Harrop A. Freeman (1907-93)”, Quaker Studies 30(2).doi: https://lnkd.in/ebfVS6CX
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- Andrew Shenton
- Presentation: “Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabulation as Intervention in Grief Studies,” read at the joint conference of The American Musicological Society and The Society for Music Theory, Minneapolis, MN, November 2025.
- Publication Award: Two essays for Messiaen in Context (Robert Sholl, editor), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) received Honorable Mention in the Royal Musical Association Edited Book Prize, 2025.
- emilie m. townes
- Presentation: The fourth and final lecture for the 2025 American Lectures in the History of Religion sponsored by the American Academy of Religion: “With Liberty and Justice for All: Recentering Our Work as Scholars of Religion (Or Recentering the Theological Canon)” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, 24 November 2025, Boston, MA.
- Karen Westerfield Tucker, et al
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Editor (with Ross, Melanie C.): Worship in Communion with Creation: Recognizing a Broader Participation. Liturgical Press, 2026.
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