Alumni/ae News
BUSTH MDiv Student Welling Hall Published in Friends Journal
The following is an excerpt from the Friends Journal article “Transforming Weapons into Art: The Theopoetics of Beating Swords into Plowshares” by BUSTH master of divinity student Welling Hall, published on September 1, 2022. Click here to read the full article. I became an artist when I began to perform acts of aesthetic fury to decry […]
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for Summer 2022
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for the months of May through August 2022: Luis Menéndez-Antuña The Book of Torture: The Gospel of Mark, Crucifixion, and Trauma, Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2022), lfac027, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfac027 Steven Sandage, et al Thomas, D.L., Stavros, G.S., Sandage, S.J., Berg-Cross, L., […]
BUSTH PhD Student Daniel Montañez (STH’18,’25) Published on Patheos.com
The following is an excerpt from the Patheos.com blog article “From Truth to Trust: Reimagining the Future of Christian Apologetics” by BUSTH PhD student Daniel Montañez, published on August 31, 2022. Click here to read the full article. … Today, the context from which apologetics is done is vastly different from the early Church. One […]
Dr. Stephanie A. Budwey (STH’04,’12) Publishes “Religion and Intersex: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology”
Dr. Stephanie A. Budwey’s (STH’04,’12) new book Religion and Intersex: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology is published by Routledge and will be available August 25, 2022. This book considers the situation of intersex people who have faced erasure in the areas of science, law, culture, and theology due to the assumption that all […]
BUSTH Announces Distinguished Alumni for 2022
August 2022 – The Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) is pleased to announce this year’s Distinguished Alumni for 2022. A list of previous winners can be found on the BUSTH website. “The 2022 Distinguished Alumni are change-leaders, each in their own way,” says G. Sujin Pak, dean. “They model for us the possibilities of visionary […]
Prof. Luis Menéndez-Antuña Awarded Grant from Catholic Biblical Association
Assistant Professor of New Testament Luis Menéndez-Antuña was recently awarded a grant from the Catholic Biblical Association to start new research on Enslavement in Early Christianity. Every year, the Catholic Biblical Association grants four to six awards to promote biblical scholarship. This project, entitled “Historiographies of Pain: Galatians 4, Enslavement, Inheritance, and Flesh,” asks the […]
Boston Neighborhood Network News Interview with Rev. Vernon K. Walker (STH ’16)
This interview was aired on 8/1/2022 on the Boston Neighborhood Network and can be found here. Nightly news program with News Director & Anchor Faith Imafidon Rev. Vernon K. Walker (STH ’16) was featured on Boston Neighborhood Network where he did a studio interview about CREW (Communities Responding to Extreme Weather) work. Watch the interview […]
Rev. Mariama M. White-Hammond (STH’17) and Rev. Vernon Kerri Walker, Jr. (STH’16) Featured in WCVB5’s Documentary on Climate Justice in Boston
This press release was originally published by the WCVB5 on July 12, 2022 and can be found here. This week on CityLine, communities of color are disproportionately suffering from the extreme heat brought on by climate change. Environmental Justice advocates, including Reverend Mariama White Hammond, Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space for the city of […]
Prof. Luis Menéndez-Antuña inducted into the International New Testament Society
Assistant Professor of New Testament Luis Menéndez-Antuña has been inducted into the Society for the Study of the New Testament (Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, SNTS). Founded in 1939 for the furtherance of New Testament studies internationally, SNTS is the premiere international society for the critical study of the New Testament. Its journal, New Testament Studies, […]
Prof. Nicolette Manglos-Weber Featured in BU Bostonia Article on Measuring Human Flourishing
The following is an excerpt from Bostonia’s article “Can This Interdisciplinary Team Measure Human Flourishing?” by Joel Brown, featuring Assistant Professor of Religion and Society Nicolette Manglos-Weber, published on May 16, 2022. Click here to read the full article. Mining Datasets on Flourishing in Underserved Communities … Nicolette Manglos-Weber, a BU School of Theology assistant professor […]