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.
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“For a moment this morning, let me upend my own disregard and maybe yours” for that sort of tradition, said Rev. Robert Allan Hill, dean of Marsh Chapel, this year’s baccalaureate speaker. “Because it may well be that they have a point. They’re chary of, wary of, treading upon that circle and that seal, and there may be a reason, a subconscious reason, but a reason nonetheless.
“It is because the words in that seal are potent, they have power, they have electricity, a kind of juice to them,” said Hill, who is also a School of Theology professor of New Testament and Pastoral Theology.
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