If you have ever longed to have a private consultation to discuss your own potential cross-cultural vocation, this is your chance! Bishop Charles Wiggins, STH MDiv alum, UMC missionary, and bishop of the Methodist Church of Tanzania, will be in residence at BUSTH from April 2 through April 4. He will be introduced at community lunch on April 3, sponsored by the Center for Global Christianity and Mission. After lunch on April 3 and 4, he will be available during the afternoons for half-hour consultations with STH students.

 

A self-described "Prodigal Son" who converted to Christianity and came to STH in middle age, he is an unusual man with a very interesting story and countercultural approach to mission. Bishop Wiggins supports hundreds of AIDS orphans, has founded multiple churches, and runs schools, water projects, and other social services in rural Tanzania. See his blog at http://maishanamaji.blogspot.com/ .  

 

You may also hear Bishop Wiggins share his life story and insights "Accidental Missionary; Mandatory Mission" from 9:30 to 12 in room 113, on April 4. A lunch follows in room 325.

 

Bishop Wiggins is looking forward to advising interested students. A sign-up sheet will be posted on the door of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission in Room 311. Please email cgcm@bu.edu if you have any questions.

 

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Professors Farmer and Goizueta will discuss Farmer's vision for health care in resource-poor areas of the world, and how the principles of liberation theology and Catholic social teaching shed light on the reality of social inequality.

 

Paul Farmer is the Kolokotrones University Professor, Harvard University, Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and founding director of Partners in Health.

Roberto Goizueta is the Margaret O'Brien Flatley Professor of Catholic Theology, Boston College Theology Department.

 

FREE of charge and open to the public.

Admission will be on a first come, first served basis.

Click here for more information about this event.

 

Rev. Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock, feminist scholar is coming to STH for two days next week, Thursday April 4 and Friday April 5, to discuss her work with "Soul Repair", an organization that works with veterans of war toward recovery from moral injury, a condition in which one feels one has violated a deep part of one's moral being and so experiences a great sense of self-worthlessness and lack of meaning in one's life. 

 

Dr. Brock is currently Research Professor in Theology and Culture and Founding Co-Director of the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, TX (brite.edu/soulrepair).  Her publications include:  as co-author, Soul Repair:  Recovering from Moral Injury After War;  Proverbs of Ashes:  Violence, Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us; Journeys by Heart:  a Christology of Erotic Power.
It promises to be an interesting and informative meeting!

 

This is the second lecture in a three part public lecture and panel series "Raising Commitment, Restoring Hope: the Civil Discourse of America."  Read more...

For more information contact Jaclyn Jones, Alumni Relations Officer: 617-353-8972 or jkjones@bu.edu 

The borders and boundaries where political, ethnic, religious, racial, national, and other factions meet are hotbeds for ideological and psychological tensions that affect marginalized gender and sexual identities. Within these "clash zones," anything from eruptive transformations (revolutions) to gradual modifications (evolutions) might occur.

This interdisciplinary Women's and Gender studies conference will investigate how frictions produced in these "clash zones" impact individual and communal bodies and alter the identity categories by which we define those bodies. 

 

Visit the conference website for more details.  

REGISTER ONLINE TODAY!

Conference is free and open to the public.

Find it on the campus map

 

The 2013 Conference on Ministry with Children [formerly FOCUS] is offered by GBOD of the United Methodist Church to support those engaged in ministry with children.

 

This event is open to teachers, leaders, pastors, children's advocates, preschool teachers and directors, annual conference staff, and anyone who is committed to the faith formation of children. Workshops, panel discussions, networking opportunities and engaging worship experiences will equip you with effective and innovative ministry ideas to use in your congregation.

 

Join us as we "Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord" July 22 - 26, 2013 in beautiful Greenville, South Carolina at Buncombe Street United Methodist Church. We will celebrate our work with children and connect in ways that will help our children continue to grow in faith.

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Can you believe we're getting ready for the final STH reading Retreat of the year? 
This is our 6th Retreat of the year.  RSVPs should be sent to rolson@bu.edu, no later than April 4th.

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