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2023 in Review

Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and Surprising Findings from BU Researchers

December 11, 2023

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Linguistics

How and Why Language is Weaponized

October 23, 2023

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Campus Voices

Outrage, Mourning, as BU Community, Leaders, Respond to Israel-Hamas War

October 10, 2023

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Religion

Advocacy for Women Deacons by Alum Phyllis Zagano, a World Expert, Goes before Global Vatican Gathering

September 29, 2023

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Books

Wesley Wildman on the Challenges and Joys of Writing Fiction after Work for Academic Audiences

September 26, 2023

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Books

New Book by STH Lecturer, and Alum, Calls Out Christianity for Stigmatizing Fat People

September 22, 2023

Photo: Will Lyman (CFA’71), an older white man, sits in the audience chairs as he looks at the camera with a side eye, posed strong. Jesse Kodama (CFA’25), a younger white man with short brown hair, sits across from him, holding his head in his hand.

Arts & Culture

In Huntington Theatre Company’s Prayer for the French Republic, BU Alum and Current Student Play Same Character, 70 Years Apart

September 19, 2023

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Politics

Should Massachusetts Abolish Religious Exemptions for School Vaccinations?

August 29, 2023

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Climate Change

What Can the Bible Teach Us about Fighting Climate Change?

August 15, 2023

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Religion and Social Service

Feed My Lambs

August 7, 2023

Photo: Rev. Robert Allan Hill, a white man wearing white and red ceremonial wear, stands with hands raised palm-up in way of prayer, as he speaks at a wooden podium in Marsh Chapel.

Commencement 2023

Importance of Learning, Virtue, and Piety Invoked at University’s Baccalaureate Service

May 21, 2023

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University News

Stephen Prothero Delivers a Deeply Personal, Final BU Lecture

May 8, 2023

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CHOIR

Inner Strength Gospel Choir Celebrates 50th Anniversary

April 26, 2023

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New Appointment

Marsh Chapel Appoints Inaugural Associate Chaplain for Student Outreach

April 7, 2023

Photo: Bill Banfield (STH'88) conducts a concert with his Imagine Orchestra at the Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall Longy School of Music, Friday, November 11, 2022. A Black mean wearing glasses, a purple and black knit cap, and black blazer, has his hands raised in the air as he conducts.

Creatives

Jazzman Bill Banfield (STH’88) is Bridging Jazz, Faith, and Community

March 23, 2023

Photo: Eugenio Menegon (left) poses for a photo with Daryl Ireland (right). Menegon, a man with white gray hair and wearing black glasses, a light blue, checkered collared shirt and navy blue sweater smiles and poses with arms crossed. Ireland, a man wearing glasses, light blue collared shirt, gray tie, and brown blazer, smiles and poses with hands in pockets. Both stand in front of a projector displaying a representation of the global network they're working on.

Christianity

What’s behind Boom of Christianity in China?

February 2, 2023

Photo: Reverend Arthur Gordon delivers his sermon at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Roxbury. A black man wearing a black robe over a white collared shirt and yellow striped tie raises both hands as he gives a sermon at the front of a church.

Religion

A Public Theology: BU Alumni Pastors Bring Their Faith to Politics

January 27, 2023

Photo: The Marsh Chapel choir practices on Monday, December 5, 2022. A group of people standing in a chapel hold music books and sing. A conductor stands in the middle of the half circle and leads.

Arts & Culture

Marsh Chapel Celebrates Christmas with Its Annual Service of Lessons & Carols

December 8, 2022

White supremacist nazis hang a sign over the 405 freeway reading "Kanye is right about the jews"

Anti-Semitism

With Anti-Semitism on the Rise, a New BU Course Takes Shape

November 10, 2022

Photo: Wooden crosses mark the graves of Izium residents killed by Russian occupiers during exhumation procedures at a mass burial site in Izium that was liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Russian troops, Kharkiv Region, northeastern Ukraine. Numerous mounds of dirt are marked by crosses in a wooded area. A tape is pulled across the scene, with Ukrainian writing on it.

Academics

BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major

October 24, 2022

BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major