Alumni/ae News
Prof. Steven Sandage featured in BU’s The Brink
The following is an excerpt from The Brink article “Why Are So Many Religious Leaders Facing Stress and Burnout?” by Mara Sassoon and Andrew Thurston, featuring Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion and Theology Steven Sandage, published on March 17, 2022. Click here to read the full article. Many people who experience […]
BUSTH Hosts Spring 2022 Lowell Lecture
The Boston University School of Theology hosted its Spring 2022 Lowell Lecture on Wednesday, March 15, 2022. The lecture, titled “Stop Listening with Your Eyes: Transcending Stereotypes Wrapped in Color Consciousness” was delivered by Lee H. Butler, Jr., PhD, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean, and the William Tabbernee Professor of the History […]
Prof. Jonathan Calvillo Quoted in Los Angeles Times
The following is an excerpt of an original article titled “Latino evangelicals used to shun politics. Will they now become a right-wing force?” written by Cindy Carcamo and published on March 4, 2022 in the Los Angeles Times. Prof. Calvillo’s faculty profile can be found here. After the 11:30 a.m. church service at Houses of […]
Luther College Awards Tenure to Ms. Susan Gayle Schmidt (STH’93)
This press release was originally published by the Decorah News, and can be found here. The Luther College Board of Regents has granted tenure to Ms. Susan Gayle Schmidt (STH’93) and promoted her to associate professor. Social work faculty member Susan Schmidt has master’s degrees from Columbia University School of Social Work and from Boston University […]
From BU Today: Boston University’s Mask Mandate to End, with Exceptions
The original article was published on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 on BU Today. March 7: Masking at BU becomes optional except for classrooms, the BUS, and health facilities. COVID-testing for on-campus employees becomes optional that day, too. Those who opt to continue masking and testing may do so. March 7 will be a bigger date […]
Rev. Kori Pacyniak (STH’15) and the Women Priests Push for Changes in the Church
This article was originally published by the Bostonia, Boston University’s Alumni Magazine. The original post can be found here. Growing up in a Polish neighborhood of Chicago, Kori Pacyniak was swaddled in Catholicism. Their family was devoutly Catholic. Friends in Girl Scouts and a Polish folk dancing group were Catholic. But Pacyniak’s love for the […]
Prof. Steven Sandage Published in The Conversation
The following is an excerpt from the article “Think therapy is navel-gazing? Think again” by Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion and Theology Steven Sandage, published on February 22, 2022 by The Conversation US. Click here to read the full article. Midway through a recent lecture about my psychology research, a bright graduate […]
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for February 2022
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for the month of February 2022: Jonathan Calvillo Christianities and the Construction of Latinx Ethnoracial Identities. In K. Nabhan-Warren (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of Latinx Christianity in the United States. Oxford University Press. Steven Sandage, et al Sandage, S. J., & Strawn, B. […]
Dr. Charles Clayton Daniels (STH ’20) in Forbes “Uplifting Black Fathers in America”
This press release was originally published by Forbes on Feb 14, 2022. The full article can be found here. Nearly 20 million kids in the U.S. are growing up without a relationship with their fathers, which is strongly correlated to these kids experiencing a range of lifelong adversities from poverty, to school performance, to social […]
BUSTH “Winter Walk” Team Featured as BU Today’s Close Up
Members of the BU School of Theology community participated in the sixth annual Winter Walk on Sunday, February 13, 2022, to help the City of Boston’s homeless.Click here to see the original BU Today post