{"id":21191,"date":"2013-09-09T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T22:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=21191"},"modified":"2019-09-16T14:29:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:29:39","slug":"press-release-on-course-at-union-umc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/press-release-on-course-at-union-umc\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Black Church, Local Seminary Teach Queer Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/sth\/files\/2019\/09\/Union.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sth\/files\/2019\/09\/Union.jpg\" alt=\"Union\" title=\"Union\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21193\" height=\"116\" width=\"432\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/unionboston.org\/\">Union United Methodist Church<\/a>, Boston\u2019s only LGBTQ-\u00ad\u2010affirming black church, and Boston University School of Theology, the \u201cSchool of Prophets\u201d, will co-\u00ad\u2010present a graduate-\u00ad\u2010level course on Queer Theology. Beginning September 5th, the class will meet Thursdays 6-\u00ad\u20109pm at the Union Church, 485 Columbus Avenue, in Boston\u2019s South End. The site was a station for enslaved blacks on the Underground Railroad to Canada. The South End is the center of Boston\u2019s LGBTQ life.<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/pamela-lightsey\/\">Rev. Pamela Lightsey, PhD<\/a>, United Methodist ordained elder and Clinical Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology, will instruct the course. &#8220;That this course will be located at Union UMC is phenomenal! It meets our school&#8217;s desire to do relevant contextual education and it will do so in a way that is good for our students, good for the church, and good for those who will come from surrounding communities.&#8221;<br \/>\nRead the whole Press Release <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/sth\/files\/2019\/09\/Queer-Theology-Course-Press-Release-full14.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union United Methodist Church, Boston\u2019s only LGBTQ-\u00ad\u2010affirming black church, and Boston University School of Theology, the \u201cSchool of Prophets\u201d, will co-\u00ad\u2010present a graduate-\u00ad\u2010level course on Queer Theology. Beginning September 5th, the class will meet Thursdays 6-\u00ad\u20109pm at the Union Church, 485 Columbus Avenue, in Boston\u2019s South End. The site was a station for enslaved blacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39808,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191\/revisions\/39808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}