BUSTH Welcomes New Assistant Professor of Spiritual Care and Counseling
April 2022 – Boston University School of Theology is pleased to announce the appointment of new full-time faculty member Eunil David Cho, who will begin on July 1, 2022. Professor Cho will join the faculty as Assistant Professor of Spiritual Care and Counseling.
Dr. Cho is an ordained Presbyterian (USA) minister with a background in congregational ministry and chaplaincy, and worked with immigrant and refugee populations before his current appointment at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University as Visiting Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology and Care and Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow. He was the Director of the Candler Writing Center at Emory University from 2017-2019, and his first book “Making Sense of Life with God: Religious Stories that Dreamers Tell in the Face of Uncertainty” is in progress. He earned his PhD at Emory University in 2020 and is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on the topics of pastoral and practical theology, psychology of religion, Asian American theology and ministry, and narrative theories and practices.
“I am absolutely thrilled to join Boston University School of Theology for its historic reputation as a theological education community that trains all persons of faith and fosters both personal and social transformation,” says Dr. Cho. “I look forward to collaborating with the diverse faculty, staff, and students at BUSTH to cultivate further a scholarly community of diversity, equity, and inclusion, where all students have equal access to learning and feel valued in pursuing their vocational goals.”
“Dr. Cho’s presence and expertise will strengthen the School’s commitments to academic and vocational formation, interdisciplinary collaborations, and practices of care in these challenging times.”
School of Theology Dean G. Sujin Pak shares her excitement for the announcement of this appointment. “Dr. Cho brings outstanding gifts in pastoral ministry, spiritual care, youth ministry, writing pedagogy, teaching, and mentoring in support of a diversity of persons and vocations,” says Dean Pak. “His scholarship demonstrates an exciting trajectory, with a current project exploring experiences of and responses to anti-Asian violence. Dr. Cho’s presence and expertise will strengthen the School’s commitments to academic and vocational formation, interdisciplinary collaborations, and practices of care in these challenging times.”