STH Weekly Worship
ASH WEDNESDAY Starts at 11 a.m.
Dr. Rady Roldan-Figuerora,
STH Faculty
February 29 LENTEN WORSHIP SERIES: JESUS AND "THE OTHER" Korean Student Association 
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Spiritual Life Office
Daily Morning Prayer 8:00 - 8:20 am Hartman Rm. B-23
(during Muelder Chapel remodeling)
Begin your day with prayer, song, scripture, and fellowship. A light breakfast is served. To volunteer your leadership contact
T: Laurie Kilgore
W: Emily Willie
Th: Dr. Thomas Thangaraj
_____________________________ Bible Study
Bible Study will NOT meet on February 21st, since it is a BU Monday. We'll resume on Tuesday February 28th. All most welcome to this time of fellowship and inquiry.
Tuesdays, 11:30-12:30 Room 325
This study will explore biblical "fruits of the spirit," encouraging the flourishing of these fruits in our own lives.
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Poet's Corner
An excerpt from "Israfel" By Edgar Allan Poe "If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody, While a bolder note than his might swell from my lyre within the sky."
We'd love to hear from the STH community, with ideas and submissions, contact Phil Conner at: pmconner@bu.edu
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| Film Viewing and Discussion
February 23
March 2
March 23
March 30
7-10:00pm
STH 115
Please join International Community Church of Allston for a series of film viewings and guided theological discussions.
The films and dates are as follows:
To End All Wars (March 2)
Wit (March 16)
Tree of Life (March 23)
Toy Story III (March 30).
RSVP to David Rohr at daverohr7@gmail.com if you plan to attend."
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Growing Potential: Gardening Behind Bars
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 7:00 pm
Trinity Church, Copley Square
Co-sponsored by Trinity Church & The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
James Jiler is former Director of the GreenHouse Project, a renowned horticultural job training program for inmates at New York City's Rikers Island prison and is author of Doing Time in the Garden. He is currently director of GreenWorks, a re-entry program in Florida offering vocational training in "Greencollar" jobs, both inside and outside prison walls. Jiler will discuss horticultural therapy, the role of gardens inside and outside of prison walls and the human and landscape transformations he has witnessed. Jiler was featured in the documentary Dirt! which explores the life-changing effects that dirt and "doing time in the garden" have had on improving/reclaiming the lives of inmates. Book-signing to follow. For more information on James Jiler, please see www.nativesplendor.com Tickets available at the Shop at Trinity, by phone (617.536.0944 x225) or online arboretum@harvard.edu. Questions: Kathy Acerbo-Bachmann, kacerbobachmann@trinitychurchboston or 617.536.0944 x217. Kathryn Acerbo-Bachmann, Director of Art & Architecture Programs
Trinity Church in the City of Boston
206 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA 02116
Telephone: 617-536-0944, Facsimile: 617-536-8916
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Seventeenth Annual Summer Language Program
On behalf of the Erasmus Academy NY and Seventeenth Annual Summer Language Program you are invited to participate in online language program. The program is a unique 8-week online course designed specifically for graduate students who need to learn languages for future study in graduate and doctoral programs. Courses are being offered this year in: German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Greek, NT Greek, and Classical Latin.
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New Sports Field Coming to
West Campus
 Athletic shoe manufacturer New Balance has pledged $3 million to Boston University for a new and much-needed sports field that will greatly improve athletic and recreational life at the school on many levels. New Balance Field will be built on Babcock Street, near Nickerson Field, and will open in fall 2013.
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Indoor Tanning Dangerous,
Warns MED Prof
New report on perils of tanning salons
The title of a congressional report last month said it all: "False and Misleading Health Information Provided to Teens by the Indoor Tanning Industry." With students already heading to tanning salons before next month's spring break, Barbara Gilchrest, a School of Medicine professor of dermatology, is echoing the report's warnings against bronzing on a tanning bed.
The risk of melanoma jumps 75 percent for people who begin indoor tanning before the age of 30, and among people who've tanned 10 times or more by that age, the risk of a melanoma diagnosis is six times higher than for those who've never tanned inside, according to the report.
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The Long Weekend We All Need
This Weekender recommends a mix of comedy, sports events, art exhibitions, and music. Got some other ideas about weekend happenings that readers shouldn't miss? Tell us where to go. Read more...
Monday, February 20 
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Help Seminary Singers
Help Us Publicize The Seminary Singers Tour to Florida Do you know friends, family, colleagues in Florida? If so, please invite them to attend a Seminary Singers Concert in March. To see the schedule click on the card below:  If you would like a postcard to mail to someone in Florida, please visit the Admissions Office, Suite 108. Thank you for your help in making our upcoming tour a huge success. |
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
12:30 - 1:15p.m
STH 320 
Join us for the Anna Howard Shaw Center's Thursday Lunch Talk!
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Evans
Topic: "Living into my Vocation: My Journey as an Historian"
For more information on the Shaw Center's Thursday Lunch Talks contact Nory (Norma) Vedan Leachon nleachon@bu.edu
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"Transforming the Conversation" Conference
Thursday, February 23
Thursday, March 1
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
STH 325
Sponsored by Sacred Worth at BU School of Theology. Please R.S.V.P. to sacred@bu.edu
- February 23, 2012 - Panel Two: Transformational Theology. This panel will consist of theologians and scholars who can offer historical perspectives on the topic of queerness and religion. They will discuss contemporary queer theology as it currently stands and anticipate where the field may move in the future. Conversation will illuminate queer theology and explain how queer theory undergirds and strengthens the "ground-level" struggle for LGBTQIA inclusion. Focusing upon praxis, panelists will highlight the ways in which theory and action intersect.
- March 1, 2012 - Panel Three: Transformational Action. This panel will address macro-level ecumenical and denominational priorities pertaining to the struggle for LGBTQIA equality. Panelists from a variety of backgrounds will share insight into the inclusion work that has been undertaken in their denominations and organizations. Which actions and approaches have worked? Which have been less successful? What challenges and opportunities exist? Dialogue also will address important ecumenical questions. Should different denominations be doing more together? If so, what should they do? Audience members will walk away from the evening with information about how they can become involved in denominational and ecumenical inclusion work.
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The Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts
APPLICATION DEADLINE is March 15
Each year The Fellowship awards scholarships for higher education.
Applications can be downloaded at www.UMFellowship.org/Scholarships
These scholarships include:
- Memorial Scholarships (music)
- Thom Jones Scholarships (in the arts other than music)
- Robert Schilling Music Scholarship for a rising college freshman or sophomore
ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE STUDENTS PLANNING A CAREER IN CHURCH MUSIC AND/OR WORSHIP ARTS
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Hazing Awareness Scholarship
Deadline March 6, 2012
Now ANY STUDENT may apply for the Hazing Awareness Scholarship.
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2012 Women in the World Conference
March 21, 2012
9:30am-8:30pm
Boston University School of Theology
"Feed my Shepherds": Spiritual Healing and Renewal for those in Christian Leadership"
"Devotion to social justice, persistence in difficult circumstances, service for the common good, and a vision of a better world" are highly valued characteristics of transformational leaders and notably, were also  characteristics of Anna Howard Shaw and the recipients of the award given in her name. Nurturing and sustaining transformational gifts and ministries comes at a cost. Over the years, the Center has engaged in analyses of personal collective experiences of women in ministry. Research and retention studies, time and time again, reveal an unhealthy level of spiritual malaise, often expressed as "burn out," desert seasons, and loss of passion for a ministerial call. Both clergy and laity are at risk of suffering spiritual crisis due to the stressful environments of many church contexts.
Shepherds need tending as much as the sheep. This year's Women in the World conference will name the nature of today's crisis in personal spirituality and reflect on the causes of and remedies for spiritual desolation in today's leaders.
Speakers:
Christina Belogour
Pamela Lightsey
Mary Elizabeth Moore
Visit: http://www.bu.edu/shaw/events/women-in-the-world-conference/2012-women-in-the-world/
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The Ethical Challenges of Counseling
Friday, March 23, 20124:00pm Photonics Center
8 St. Mary's Street
2nd floor Lobby and Auditorium (Room 206)
Please join us for a special guest lecture, panel dicussion, and cocktail reception hosted by the Boston University Counseling Psychology Program.
Address by Dr. Gerald Koocher, Senior Associate in Psychology at the Children's Hospital, Boston; Lecturer on Psychology at the Harvard Medical School
Panel Discussion with Professor Hardin Coleman, Dean of the BU School of Education; Professor George Stavros, BU School of Theology; Professor Melissa Holt, BU School of Education. Moderator: Professor Kimberly Howard, BU School of Education
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United Methodist Conference
June 6-9, 2012
Gordon College, Wenham, MA
Dear UM students,
Every year BUSTh United Methodist students provide hospitality at the New England Annual Conference. It is an opportunity for students to see an annual conference in action, make important contacts for the candidacy and appointment process, and gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be United Methodist.
In the past students have helped with hospitality, music, driving golf carts, morning worship, coordination, worship leadership, and other needs. This year it will be held June 6-9, 2012, at Gordon College in Wenham, MA. If you are interested and want to find out more about it, notify Wanda Stahl at wstahl@bu.edu .
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African Americans and the Abrahamic Religions Symposium
April 19-20, 2012Photonics Center 8 St. Mary's Street, Rm. 901
Free - Public Welcome
 This symposium will explore the impact that the Abrahamic Religions have had on Africans and their descendants in the Americas from the period of the slave trade until the present day. An outstanding group of scholars from the United States, Europe, Latin America and Israel will examine topics such as the Ras Tafari movement in Jamaica, Black Judaism in the 1930s, Nigerian Pentacostalism and the "Black church".
The symposium will feature panels on the interaction between Christianity and African Traditional Religions in the Caribbean and South America and a discussion of the three faiths in modern American life by representatives of each one.
Dr. Walter Fluker and Dr. Pamela Lightsey will be participating in this symposium.
Boston University Center for the Humanities, W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at BU, BU Center for Global Christianity, BU African Presidential Archives, BU Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, BU African Studies Center, and the BU Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program
For more information and registration visit: http://www.bu.edu/abrahamicreligionssymposium/ |
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AFAM Fall 2011 Lecture Series Schedule
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http://www.bostontheological.org;
BTI Magazine
- Institute for Philosophy & Religion 2011-12 Lecture Series "Politics, Religion and Theology"
Each year the Institute sponsors a lecture series on issues that cross the boundaries between different academic disciplines and between scholars and the educated public. Past topics have included "Courage," "Loneliness," "Civility," "Life, Death, and Immortality," "Responsibility," and "Evil."
In 2011-12, the series will address the issue of
- Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA) 25 years of research, publication and education
The Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs is a center for research, publication, and education on one of the most important questions in the contemporary world: How does culture affect economic and political developments world-wide? Specifically, how does religion impact international affairs? Since its inception in 1985, CURA has sought to discover, trace, and analyze the connection between culture, economics, politics, and globalization. We have conducted research projects on every continent except Australia, and these projects have resulted in publications that have become major points of reference on their topics. In a dynamic and modernizing world, CURA's ultimate agenda is to further global understanding and communication.
2011 - 2012 Muslim Women and the Challenge of Authority Lecture Series to be held at the Boston University Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs in Brookline, MA.
Calendar of CURA Events |
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