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Prof. Shelly Rambo quoted in CNN article on religious leadership in wake of Camp Mystic tragedy
The following is an excerpt from CNN article “How religious leaders are talking – and listening – about the losses at Camp Mystic” by Madeline Holcombe, featuring Professor of Theology Shelly Rambo, published on July 11, 2025. … An important place to start is to assure each other that feelings that come out of tragedy are […]
Profs. Rebecca Copeland and Luis Menéndez-Antuña both promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
The following is an excerpt from the BU Today article “25 Charles River Campus Faculty Receive Promotions” featuring Associate Professor of Theology Rebecca Copeland and Associate Professor of New Testament Luis Menéndez- Antuña, published on July 1, 2025. Twenty-five faculty on Boston University’s Charles River Campus have just received promotions, 17 to the rank […]
Prof. Rebecca Copeland featured in BU Brink story on Bible’s Agricultural Connections
The following is an excerpt from The Brink article “Brink Bites: Prescribing Cheaper Energy Bills and the Bible’s Agricultural Connections” by Andrew Thurston, featuring Associate Professor of Theology Rebecca Copeland, published on July 2, 2025. … What can ancient farming techniques teach us about the Bible? How did Gospel writers’ relationships with the land and environment […]
BUSTH welcomes new Assistant Professor of Homiletics
Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) is pleased to announce the appointment of new full-time faculty member Rev. Dr. Timothy L. Adkins-Jones (’09, ’20), who will begin on July 1, 2025. Rev. Dr. Adkins-Jones will join the faculty as Assistant Professor of Homiletics, most recently serving as Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Union Theological Seminary. […]
Peacemaking and Prophetic Action: Development of BUSTH’s Inaugural Circle Keeping Program
By Kendall Doty (’25) During the 2024-2025 school year, Boston University School of Theology (STH) launched a new contextual education internship program offering students the opportunity to practice circle keeping. Under the direction of Clinical Assistant Professor of Religion and Conflict Transformation and Director of the Tom Porter Religion and Conflict Transformation Program James McCarty, […]
Prof. Emilie Townes to receive William Rainey Harper Award from Religious Education Association
Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies emilie townes will receive the William Rainey Harper Award from the Religious Education Association (REA) at their annual meeting in July 2025. According to REA president Karen-Marie Yust, ThD, the nominating board believes that Prof. townes’s work “has had a profound effect on the theory […]
Prof. Shelly Rambo promoted to Full Professor
The following is an excerpt from the BU Today article “23 Charles River Campus Faculty Promoted to Full Professor” featuring Professor of Theology Shelly Rambo, published on May 21, 2025. … Among the nearly two dozen faculty on Boston University’s Charles River Campus recently promoted to full professor are a computer scientist who studies […]
Prof. Emilie Townes interviewed by UChicago Divinity School
The following is an excerpt from the article “A Little Education Goes a Long Way” featuring Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies emilie m. townes published on May 6, 2025 by University of Chicago Divinity School. The bluster of early May in Hyde Park didn’t dim the joy Rev. Dr. Emilie […]
Boston University awarded grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to continue “Trauma-Responsive Congregations” Initiative
Boston University is proud to announce that it has been awarded a $611,500 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to continue and expand the “Trauma-Responsive Congregations” project. This project, which is a continuation of a four-year program previously funded through Lilly Endowment’s Thriving Congregations Initiative, will help the university scale the work of supporting urban congregations […]
Prof. Emerita Nancy Ammerman elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The following is an excerpt from “29 Boston-area professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,” featuring Professor Emerita of Sociology of Religion Nancy Ammerman, published in the Boston Globe on April 28, 2025. Twenty Harvard University faculty members and six Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors were among nearly 250 newly elected members […]