Featuring Professor Robert Jackson.  

You are cordially invited to another special dinner conversation with an international religious educator, Professor Robert Jackson,  continuing to explore the theme "Teaching for Freedom." This time together will serve as Part II of our Teaching for Freedom series. Because freedom is at the heart of God's peace and justice, freedom is essential to religious education.  

Dr. Robert Jackson is a global leader in religious diversity and education. You can find a very good article by Dr. Jackson at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ces/research/wreru/aboutus/staff/rj/.

This event continues Boston University School of Theology's celebration of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have a Dream Speech."

Dinner will be provided.  Please RSVP to Steph Budwey at  sbudwey@bu.edu.

We hope you can join us for this exciting conversation.

We ask that all those who have served (or those who are currently serving) wear their military uniform or another form of Military regalia.

Representatives of the Upper New York Annual Conference cabinet and Board of Ordained Ministry will be on campus this Thursday, November 14 to meet with anyone interested in learning about ministry in upstate New York. You can sign up to meet with them at the Contextual Education Office. Information about the conference is at www.unyumc.org.

The Church has been one of the most enduring and significant patrons of art for more than two thousand years. This course acknowledges that the arts have a fundamental role in our spiritual lives because they enrich the worship experience and they can move beyond the limits of verbal description to mediate our relationship with God. Appreciation and understanding of the types of sacred art is an ongoing process-so is patronage. This course aims to facilitate understanding of sacred art for its intrinsic worth and also to assess how it may be used to enhance worship in the future.

This course examines the historical role of the Christian Church as a patron of art. It will deal systematically with the theology of architectural space, church furnishing, vestments, stained glass and decorative work. It defines the different uses of religious art, looks at Christian symbols in art and will include a practical guide to the purpose and process of commissioning. Students will be taught to look, interpret, use the technical vocabulary of art and architecture, and develop skills for making value judgments about both quality and content of sacred art. It will include field trips to notable Boston area churches to see how art and architecture influence current worship, and to the Museum of Fine Arts to see some of the legacy of sacred art. More details from Professor A. Shenton [shenton@bu.edu]. 

The Worship Team is planning a liturgical arts display for Advent and we would love your contribution.  You will notice supplies in several locations around STH (community center, Muelder Chapel, etc) for you to help make "stars of wonder" origami.   

The fold instructions are included and are quite simple.  It can be a spiritual exercise to create these stars!  Once you make one (or many - we would love to have many!) place them in the bags provided and we will pick them up in due time.  Thank you!

Featuring Peterson Toscano  

In this one-person play, theatrical performance activist Peterson Toscano unearths transgender Bible characters - those people who do not fit in the gender binary, and who in transgressing and transcending gender, find themselves at the center of some of the Bible's most important stories. Read more...