Alumni/ae Publications
Dr. Patrick Reyes (STH’11) Discusses New Book, “The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive”
Writing for Your Life hosted a book launch interview with Dr. Patrick Reyes (STH’11) for his upcoming book, “The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive.” Watch the full interview below!
Evangelical Interpretation after Auschwitz: Planting Seeds for Responsible Deeds by Dr. Robert Bleakney (STH ’92)
Dr. Robert Bleakney (STH ’92) notes that his new book, Evangelical Interpretation after Auschwitz: Planting Seeds for Responsible Deeds was “influenced by both Methodist theology and my studies at BU STH under Professor Elie Wiesel.” Evangelical Interpretation after Auschwitz challenges Bible interpreters to apply a biblical ethic of social responsibility by hearing the questions of […]
Spiritually Speaking: We lost a hero in RBG, by Alumnus Rev. John F. Hudson (STH ’89)
″…a hero is someone who is concerned about other people’s well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them … That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.” – […]
“Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity,” by author and alumnus Dr. John J. Thatamanil (STH ’91)
Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity Dr. John J. Thatamanil, two-time alumnus of Boston University (STH ’91, GRS ’00) is currently Associate Professor of Theology and World Religions at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Union’s faculty biography states that “Dr. Thatamanil teaches a wide variety of courses in the areas of […]
“The Amazing Self,” authored by Rev. Thomas J. Savage (STH’64)
Creating Life Before Death: Discover Your Amazing Self “Have you ever wondered whether you were somehow missing out on life’s possibilities? Creating Life Before Death answers that question. It gives us a bridge over the troubled waters of a pandemic, economic disaster, climate change, and nuclear catastrophe. That bridge can enable every single one of us to […]
“Today I Live”, Composed and Compiled by Dr. Carlton R. Young (STH ’53)
Today I Live “This volume of twenty-five music items will be useful to the living, the dying, and the grieving and will help family members and friends to accept and honor death, in the light of faith, as an inevitable part of the cycle of life. Funeral or resurrection choirs will welcome this largely new […]
“Protest of Praise,” written by David Bjorlin (STH ’17)
“David Bjorlin (STH ’17) is a pastor and seminary professor with a unique ability to put practical theology into poetic forms. He states that ‘The act of true praise is always a protest against all that curses or denigrates the Creator’s world and the people made in the Creator’s image; and an act of true […]
Alumnus Stephen Finlan (STH ’13) Authors “Salvation Not Purchased: Overcoming the Ransom Idea to Rediscover the Original Gospel Teaching”
Alumnus Stephen Finlan has authored the book Salvation Not Purchased: Overcoming the Ransom Idea to Rediscover the Original Gospel Teaching, which was released by Cascade Books in June, 2020. Dr. Finlan notes his book “takes on the common idea that salvation was ‘purchased by the blood.’ Previous to this work, while teaching at Fordham University and elsewhere, […]
“Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality” by Rev. William F. Moore (STH ’61)
“Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality: Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition, published in December, 2019, by the University of Illinois Press, is the third book on Lovejoy by Jane Ann Stoneburner-Moore and Rev. William F. Moore, STH 1961. The book follows Lovejoy before and during the Civil War, from his pulpit […]
“We Pray With Her”, Authored by Multiple STH Alum’s, All Women
Nearly 70 United Methodist clergywomen (elders and deacons) under the age of 40 comprise the list of writers in “We Pray With Her.” These clergywomen serve all over the United States and they lead in a variety of ministerial roles in the local church, chaplaincy, academia, and more. Formed in 2016 as a private Facebook group, they […]