DEI
A Letter from the BUSTH DEI Office: Our Community is Our Song
In a now classic Latin-American folk song, adapted from an original poem by Horacio Guarani, Merces Sosa sings: “Si se calla el cantor, calla la vida. Porque la vida es ella misma un canto.” If the Singer is silent, life is silent. Because life itself is entirely a song. In the context of the “School […]
A Letter from the BUSTH DEI Office: Do Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly
As we again welcome Black History Month, and as DEI efforts are being halted across the country, it’s a good time to remind ourselves of the ground we stand on. One of the best ways to do that, in turn, is to remember those who walked that ground before us, whose footprints are all along […]
A Welcome from STH’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office
The School of Theology DEI Office: A Work of Relevance and Reverence Legacies are complicated inheritances. They provide the scaffolding of our communal life together, yet they often carry histories of exclusion and oppression. Like many social institutions in our world today, the North American church and the academy are currently reckoning with their troubled […]