{"id":60143,"date":"2026-04-07T09:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=60143"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:17:23","slug":"phd-student-laura-stein-27-featured-in-the-brink-for-study-of-clergy-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/phd-student-laura-stein-27-featured-in-the-brink-for-study-of-clergy-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Student Laura Stein (&#8217;27) featured in The Brink for Study of Clergy Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is an excerpt from <\/em>The Brink&#8217;s\u00a0<em>article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2026\/finding-voice-in-song-and-healing-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Finding her Voice, in Song and Healing Research at Boston University<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/fat-church-anastasia-kidd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\u201d by Rich Barlow, featuring current PhD student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/laura-stein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laura Stein<\/a> (&#8217;27), originally published on April 7, 2026.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u201cVoice is so precious to me,\u201d says Laura Stein, who teaches and sings God\u2019s praise on weekends as an ordained cantor at synagogues in New York. But \u201cvoice\u201d means more than hitting the right notes.<\/p>\n<p>A few years back, while studying simultaneously to be a cantor and a social worker, Stein learned of pay inequities between male and female Jewish clerics. Of course, she knew of broader inequities outside of Jewish life too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to shift the \u2018using of my voice\u2019 from singing and leading prayer to advocating for change,\u201d she says. \u201cMy cantorial education taught me how to understand justice; my social work practice taught me how to live it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"button btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2026\/finding-voice-in-song-and-healing-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from The Brink&#8217;s\u00a0article \u201cFinding her Voice, in Song and Healing Research at Boston University\u201d by Rich Barlow, featuring current PhD student Laura Stein (&#8217;27), originally published on April 7, 2026.\u00a0 \u201cVoice is so precious to me,\u201d says Laura Stein, who teaches and sings God\u2019s praise on weekends as an ordained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[202,203],"tags":[198,258,392,443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60143"}],"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=60143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60224,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60143\/revisions\/60224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}