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Preaching in a Postcolonial Age
Telling the truth about our past allows us to be faithful in the present. BY DAVID SCHNASA JACOBSEN, preaching professor, director of the Homiletical Theology Project A common sobriquet for the School of Theology is schola prophetarum, or school of the prophets. The name calls to mind the prophetic witness at the heart of what the institution does and how its […]
Black Lives Matter
Today’s activists protest oppression with a new prophetic power. BY PAMELA LIGHTSEY, associate dean for community life & lifelong learning, clinical assistant professor of contextual theology & practice We came to affirm our commitment to types of scholarship and activism that prizes justice and works for transformation. We came prepared to lend our hands, heads, […]
Abraham and Sarah in America
Immigrants have always been vulnerable. Mercy charges us to act on their behalf. BY SALLY DYCK (CAS’76, STH’78), bishop of the Northern Illinois Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church It was a peaceful demonstration, beginning at the back of the sanctuary of the Chicago Temple (First United Methodist Church) on March 27, 2014. About 50 United […]
Overcoming the Wounds of Racism
Yesterday’s problem was the color line. Today’s is admitting it still exists. BY ART J. GORDON (’16) It was November 24, 2014. As a nation, we went about our average day: Starbucks, work, school, pastoral visits. But this was the day we looked forward to hearing the results from the grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, […]
Voices in the Wilderness
The oppressed urge us to cry out for justice. BY WALTER EARL FLUKER (GRS’88), Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership There are many voices calling us from the wilderness. They talk, walk, and stalk us in our gardens of innocence— our learned ignorance and forgetfulness1 —demanding how we will identify and locate ourselves […]
Missing in Action
Does what we believe line up with what we do? BY BARBOD SALIMI, instructor of philosophical psychology, theological ethics & peace studies In the 2005 film Batman Begins, the main character—Bruce Wayne— receives a sobering message from his love interest during a charged interaction. “It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that […]
The Christian Science Monitor: Why College Activism is Soaring
The Christian Science Monitor has published an article entitled, “Why College Activism is Soaring,” suggesting the reasons behind current protests by large numbers of college students. The article also highlights why college students are taking new measures for activism, with insights from Walter E. Fluker, Martin Luther King Jr. professor of ethical leadership at the School of […]
DeLano Receives BU Student Employee of the Year Award
The Boston University Student Employment Office has chosen STH student Lauren DeLano (MDiv ’16) as its Graduate Student Employee of the Year. Each year, SEO chooses a graduate and undergraduate award recipient from among all of the student employees at Boston University. DeLano is the first School of Theology student to receive the award since […]
Courtney T. Goto, The Grace of Playing
Believers and teachers of faith regularly know the in-breaking of God’s Spirit in their midst, when revelatory experiencing unexpectedly shifts habits of thinking, feeling, and doing toward more life-giving ways of being and becoming. When the moment is right, Spirit breathes new life into dry bones. Though religious educators have much practical wisdom about facilitating […]
Reverend Ross E. Lilly (STH '57)
Rev. Ross E. Lilly died on March 21, 2016 at the age of 89. Rev. Lilly served in the New England Conference at churches in MA and RI: W. Barrington, Hingham, East Providence, East Greenwich, Needham and Waltham Immanuel UMC’s until his retirement in 1993. There will be a memorial service 10:30 a.m. on […]