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Dean of Marsh Chapel Robert Allan Hill Delivers 2023 BU Baccalaureate Address
The following is an excerpt from BU Today’s article “Importance of Learning, Virtue, and Piety Invoked at University’s Baccalaureate Service” by Joel Brown published on May 21, 2023, featuring Dean of Boston University Marsh Chapel and STH Professor of New Testament and Pastoral Theology Robert Allan Hill. … “For a moment this morning, let me […]
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for May 2023
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for May 2023: Eunil David Cho “Migration, Trauma, and Spirituality: Intercultural, Collective, and Contextual Understanding and Treatment of Trauma for Displaced Communities.” Pastoral Psychology (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-023-01067-x David Decosimo “Ordering Reasons, Mediating Virtues: How and Why Thomas Aquinas Affirmed the Compatibility of Acquired and […]
BUSTH announces 2023 Student Leadership Awards
On Wednesday, May 3, the BUSTH community gathered for the final Wednesday Community Day of the academic year. During community lunch, Dean G. Sujin Pak, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Bryan Stone, and Associate Dean for Students and Community Life Cristian De La Rosa awarded 11 outstanding students certificates reflecting their extraordinary contributions to the […]
Prof. Wesley Wildman featured in Boston Globe: Colleges dealing with AI
The following is an excerpt from The Boston Globe’s article “Months after ChatGPT’s noisy debut, colleges take differing approaches to dealing with AI” by Jeremy C. Fox, featuring Professor of Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics Wesley Wildman. Click here to read the full article. … At Boston University, students in professor Wesley J. Wildman’s Data, Society, and Ethics […]
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for April 2023
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for April 2023: Daryl Ireland “Leaping (and Bridging) the Digital Gorge: Development, User-Experience, and the China Historical Christian Database (CHCD),” Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (2022): 123-134. “Lessons and Gifts of Interreligious Encounters,” in Portraits of Global Christianity: Research and Reflections in Honor […]
An Easter 2023 Message from Dean Pak
Easter evokes powerful memories of hope and joy for me. It is colored eggs, white lilies, joyous hymns, spring sunshine, a warm breeze, the promise of new beginnings and rediscovered joys. It is a tapestry of colors, music, and the beauties of creation—budding flowers, birdsong, and the greening renewal of the earth—all coming together to […]
Prof. Wesley Wildman featured in BU Today: AI in Political Propaganda
The following is an excerpt from BU Today’s article “Is Trump’s Indictment Good for Democracy?” by Joel Brown, featuring Professor of Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics Wesley Wildman. Click here to read the full article. … Recently artificial intelligence has been a big story in part for its ability to create deep fakes in images, audio, and […]
BUSTH Hosts Spring 2023 Bi-Annual Lowell Lecture
On March 23, 2023, the Boston University School of Theology with the generous support of the Lowell Institute was proud to sponsor the bi-annual Lowell Lecture in the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground. The lecture by Dr. Bill Banfield (STH’88), entitled “…when artists go to work…” sought to demonstrate the spiritual dimension of artistic […]
Alumnus Bishop LaTrelle Easterling (STH’04) featured on UMNews “Hollering for Change” Series
The following is an excerpt from United Methodist News article “Hollering for change: Conversation with Bishop LaTrelle Easterling” featuring BUSTH alumnus Bishop LaTrelle Easerling (STH‘04), published on March 31, 2023. Click here to read the full article and watch the video. The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily […]
BUSTH Students participate in UMC Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference Immersion Experience
The following is an excerpt from United Methodist News article “Native immersion explores culture, horrors” originally published on March 22, 2023 by Jim Patterson, featuring current BUSTH students Ebiye Seimode (STH‘23), Yewon Park (STH‘23), Felix Jibrin (STH‘23), Alec Vaughn (STH‘23) and KMarie Tejeda. Click here to read the full article. … [Yewon] Park, a student […]