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Event Recording featuring US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
October 2020 – The STH community is invited to watch the recording of the recent Lowell Lecture featuring Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate 2019 - 2021. The event was hosted last week during Boston University’s Alumni Weekend 2020: Reimagined. The recording is on the STH Livestream page and will be... More
Reverend Carl Victor Bretz (STH ’54)
The Rev. Carl Victor Bretz died on Oct. 4, 2020 while in rehab at Diversicare at Oak Ridge. He was a long time resident at Oak Ridge Commonwealth Senior Living. Carl was the only child born to John H. and Miriam M. Bretz in Cumberland County, Pa. He was born on... More
Ms. Betty J. Gray (CAS ’63, STH ’66)
Born July 20, 1934, to Ethel and Fletcher Gray in Worcester, Betty Jane Gray was a woman of substance. She went to glory to be with her beloved parents and two brothers, James and Robert, on September 25, 2020. She is survived by her sister Marjorie Ellen Ellsworth, her son... More
United States UMC Bishops Call for Full Participation in November Elections
This article was originally published on October 12 on the United Methodists Bishops website here. BU School of Theology Bishop-in-Residence Susan Hassinger has signed this statement. Washington, D.C. – United Methodist bishops based in the United States today issued a statement on Faith and Democracy, calling on the people of The... More
Spiritually Speaking: We lost a hero in RBG, by Alumnus Rev. John F. Hudson (STH ’89)
″...a hero is someone who is concerned about other people’s well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them ... That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a... More
For New England evangelical leaders, Maine sermon reflects deepening rifts in the faith community
In the wake of a now-infamous sermon denying COVID-19′s threat, faith leaders contend with a divided evangelical movement. This article was originally published here, by The Boston Globe. When Maine pastor Todd Bell used a recent Sunday sermon to decry COVID-19 restrictions and dismiss the virus’s threat, just weeks after he officiated at a... More
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for September 2020
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for the month of September 2020: Nicolette Manglos-Weber “Congregants and Citizens: Religion and Naturalization among US Immigrants,” International Migration Review 54:3 (2000), 674–706. Dana Robert “Sacred Music and Christian Transnationalism in 1920s–1930s China and Japan,” in Alexander Chow... More
Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. (STH’60) Honored with “Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr. Day” by Los Angeles County
The following story was originally published on September 15, 2020 by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. It can be accessed here. On a motion by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to proclaim September 22 as “Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr. Day.” September 22, More
Reverend Robert L. Hemmerla (STH ’56)
Mrs. Sara L. Kavich (STH ’62)
"Sara Guy Kavich passed away on August 2, 2020 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Sara was born on February 21, 1934 in Austin, Minnesota, growing up on the farm with her parents, four brothers and her dear sister Jean. Sara graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in... More