{"id":45925,"date":"2021-03-19T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=45925"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:57:39","slug":"dean-pak-featured-in-diverse-issues-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/dean-pak-featured-in-diverse-issues-in-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Pak Featured in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

The original story was published on the <\/em>Diverse: Issues in Higher Education website on March 15, 2021. The following is an excerpt only. Please click here<\/a> to read the full article.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Dean Brings Clear Convictions During Divisive Time in Methodist Church<\/h2>\n

By Jessica Ruf<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a momentous time for Dr. Sujin Pak to take the helm as dean of Boston University\u2019s School of Theology, the oldest Methodist seminary in the U.S.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the United Methodist Church \u2014 the second-largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. \u2014 is currently splintering over LGBTQ rights. And, following years of heated dispute, it is likely the church, along with its 13 million members, will formally split come its annual general conference in August.<\/span><\/p>\n

But if anyone\u2019s equipped to deal with conflict, it\u2019s Pak\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0 a theologian and LGBTQ advocate, whose personal and academic life share a common theme: reconciliation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Raised in a deeply Methodist family, Pak never shied from addressing the darkest parts of Christian history and its treatment of non-Christians. In fact, she says it felt like her duty that she contend with those difficult histories, which is why, for her undergraduate honors thesis, she chose to explore Jewish-Christian dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was devastated by the oppressive history of Christianity towards Jews,\u201d says Pak, who has also researched ways in which Christian scripture has been used against Muslims and women. \u201cThat oppressive history translated out to many other bodies and persons across Christian history, so it was very much an exploration of recognizing those terrible histories and how do I reconcile those.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The original story was published on the Diverse: Issues in Higher Education website on March 15, 2021. The following is an excerpt only. Please click here to read the full article.\u00a0 Dean Brings Clear Convictions During Divisive Time in Methodist Church By Jessica Ruf It\u2019s a momentous time for Dr. Sujin Pak to take the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,202,203],"tags":[296,246,301,333,298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925"}],"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=45925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45926,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925\/revisions\/45926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}