Alumni/ae News
Prof. James McCarty Featured in BU Today
The following is an excerpt from BU Today’s article “Why We Need More MLK in Schools” by Steve Holt, featuring Assistant Clinical Professor of Religion and Conflict Transformation James McCarty, published on November 29, 2022. Click here to read the full article. BU Today: As a King scholar, what was your first reaction to hearing that […]
Prof. Steven Sandage quoted in Boston Globe
The following is an excerpt from the Boston Globe’s article “‘Gray divorce’ brings struggles and a possibility of late-in-life reinvention” by Robert Weisman, featuring quotes by Professor Steven Sandage, published on November 19, 2022. Click here to read the full article. Some who’ve worked with couples contemplating a breakup during the past three years say […]
BUSTH Welcomes New Congregations for Trauma-Responsive Congregations Project
November 2022 – Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) is pleased to welcome eight additional congregations to the “Trauma-Responsive Congregations” program, part of a grant funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Thriving Congregations Initiative. The four-year project is entering its third year. It is designed to help urban congregations respond to trauma from theologically-informed […]
Research Assistant Professor Daryl Ireland published in Christianity Today
The following is an excerpt from Christianity Today’s article “On the Streets of China, the Cross Shone Bright” by Research Assistant Professor of Mission Daryl Ireland. Click here to read the full article. Chinese Christian posters boldly proclaimed salvation, freedom, and hope amid a tumultuous political period Between 1927 and 1949, millions of Christian posters appeared […]
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for November 2022
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for November 2022: Eunil David Cho “From the Yellow Peril to the Model Minority and Back Again: Unraveling the Orientalist Representations of Asian Americans in the Age of Covid-19,” in Justice Matters: Spiritual Care and Pastoral Theological Imaginations in Times of the COVID-19 […]
Dean Pak Featured as Kessler Conversations Lecturer Online
The Pitts Theology Library at Emory University hosts the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection conversations online for the general public to learn more about the events in 16th-century Europe. The conversation titled “Martin Luther as a Reader of Scripture and Insights for Today” was given by Dean G. Sujin Pak earlier in October, and touches […]
Associate Dean John Berthrong, 1946 – 2022
The Boston University School of Theology announces the passing in August 2022 of former academic dean John Hugh Berthrong, who served the School for 21 years as Associate Dean for Academic and Administrative Affairs and Associate Professor of Comparative Theology. Associate Dean Berthrong long pursued his passions for philosophy and religion at the University of […]
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for September and October 2022
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for the months of September and October 2022: Eunil David Cho Coping with a Double Pandemic of Health Crisis and Anti-Asian Racism in America: The Role of Immigrant Churches. In Between pandemonium and Pandemethics: Responses to COVID-19 in theology and religions (pp. 57-68). […]
A Welcome from STH’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office
The School of Theology DEI Office: A Work of Relevance and Reverence Legacies are complicated inheritances. They provide the scaffolding of our communal life together, yet they often carry histories of exclusion and oppression. Like many social institutions in our world today, the North American church and the academy are currently reckoning with their troubled […]
BUSTH MTS Student Abel Kristofel Aruan (STH’23) Featured in BU Today
The following is an excerpt from BU Today’s article “Are You an International Grad Student? Check Out This Guide” by Alene Bouranova, featuring current Master of Theological Studies student Abel Kristofel Aruan (’23). Click here to read the full article. Three veterans draw on their experiences to help navigate life in Boston, covering issues from […]