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Are You Ready? Boston University School of Theology Nonprofit Inside: US Postage 745 Commonwealth Avenue A Call for Justice from NAACP President PAID Cornell William Brooks (’87, Hon.’15) Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Boston MA Permit No. 1839 An Oasis for Young Latinos 175 Years of Bold Leadership at STH Summer 2015 I have been supported by BU. I have been empowered. I am really grateful for that. I want BU School of Theology Summer 2015 to continue its legacy of supporting and empowering women to pursue their calling in ministry. Nizzi S. Digan (’02) Digan has included a gift to STH in her estate plans. ARE YOU READY? focus is made Education is a gift. Pass it on. possible by donations from MAKE YOUR IMPACT THROUGH A PLANNED GIFT. BU STH alumni and friends Contact us today at [email protected] or 800-645-2347. Photo by Jonathan Kannair Jonathan by Photo Boston University School of Theology Summer 2015 Dean MARY ELIZABETH MOORE He wasn’t just our teacher. Director of Development 175Years He was our friend. RAY JOYCE (Questrom’91) Alumni Relations Officer of Making History JACLYN K. JONES (’06) Editor For nearly two centuries, the School JULIE RATTEY of Theology’s leaders and alums Journal Reviewer have been breaking new ground in NATHAN BIENIEK (’09) religion around the world. Here are Contributing Writers a few highlights: LARA EHRLICH (UNI’03) William Fairfield Warren Anna Howard Shaw ANDREW THURSTON Designer SHOLA FRIEDENSOHN Cover photo 1872 As BU’s first president,William 1968 Yap Kim Hao (’54, ’68) becomes © Sagel & Kranefeld/Corbis Fairfield Warren helps the University the first Asian bishop of the Methodist Produced by Boston University become the first to open all divisions to Church in Malaysia and Singapore. In 1973, Marketing & Communications female students. Warren, a Methodist he is elected to serve as general secretary missionary who helped shape STH, also of the Christian Conference of Asia. Doucette focus is funded by donations from taught one of the country’s first courses alumni and friends to the Boston in comparative religion at BU. 1977 Josiah Kibira (’64) is elected University School of Theology Annual Fund. Learn more at as the first African president of the www.bu.edu/sth/giving. 1878 STH students Anna Oliver Lutheran World Federation. and Anna Howard Shaw become the Opinions expressed in focus do not necessarily reflect the views first women in the United States to 2009 Mary Elizabeth Moore becomes of Boston University. receive theology degrees. In 1880, STH’s first woman dean, making her the Shaw becomes one of the first women fifth woman in the world to hold a presi- ordained in any branch of Methodism. dential role in United Methodist Church STAY CONNECTED TO THE Howard Thurman theological schools. SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY 1902 Methodist minister Edgar Helms Professor Harrell F. Beck (1922–1987) Keep up with STH, share (1893, Hon.’40) founds Goodwill your latest news, and access 2014 Doris J. García Rivera (’06) brought the Hebrew Bible to life as no one else could. free religious articles at Industries in Boston while teaching is elected the first woman president STH is carrying on his legacy with the http://go.bu.edu/focus/alums. applied Christianity at STH. Goodwill, of the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto which calls itself “one of the region’s first Rico. An alum making similar strides HARRELL F. BECK CHAIR models of a successful social enterprise,” is Lallene J. Rector (’78, GRS’86), who now boasts 165 member organizations was elected the first woman president OF HEBREW SCRIPTURE. worldwide. of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in 2013. Help us to fully endow this historic position. Please recycle 1953 Howard Thurman (Hon.’67) In keeping with Boston University’s begins his role as dean of Marsh Chapel To contribute, email [email protected], call commitment to sustainability, this and the first black dean at a predomi- publication is printed on FSC-certified 617-353-2349, or visit www.bu.edu/sth/giving. paper. nantly white university. 0615 Mary Elizabeth Moore Photos of Warren and Thurman by BU Photography; Shaw courtesy the Library Congress (LC-USZ62-20177); Moore Vernon TABLE of CONTENTS DEAN’S MESSAGE 2 JOURNAL: A GUIDE TO RADICAL TRANSFORMATION FEATURES TRANSFORMATION TIP #1: 18 TRANSFORMATION TIP #5: 42 To move ahead, look behind Lead with your head. And your heart. Helping with Homework— 11 More than 175 years ago, STH began In the quest for spiritual wisdom, book and Housework its work in transformational leadership. smarts can only take us partway A resident assistant on the path to Today, the tradition continues. By Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor ordination guides his fellow students By Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College in everything from daily devotions to dishwashing TRANSFORMATION TIP #2: 26 TRANSFORMATION TIP #6: 46 Make a radical change. Put your body on the line The Energy of Ancestors 12 It’s worth the struggle. The NAACP president reminds the STH At one of New England’s oldest black Six keys to help churches around the community that working for justice means churches—founded in 1874 by a former world thrive in tough times putting our bodies where our beliefs are— slave—a doctoral student is using the past By Paul Dietterich (’53, ’61) and even in the midst of danger to shape the future Inagrace Dietterich of the Center for By Cornell William Brooks (’87, Hon.’15), Parish Development in Chicago president and CEO of the National Association The Cultural Detective 14 for the Advancement of Colored People When good intentions are misconstrued (NAACP) and tempers flare, churches call on Grace TRANSFORMATION TIP #3: 32 Cajiuat to restore the peace Adapt to changing needs Recognizing the power of Latino/a religious leadership can help the US Church evolve Awakening of a Nation 16 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Singapore’s first Asian Methodist bishop By Cristian De La Rosa, clinical assistant professor of contextual theology & practice helps his country—and the Church—build STH News: Latino leadership, 4 a postcolonial identity Sons of Serendip, STH tackles TRANSFORMATION TIP #4: 36 student debt, and more Harness the power of storytelling Writing about our spiritual journeys helps STH Celebrates 175 Years 51 make us stronger of Making History By Claire E. Wolfteich, associate professor of practical theology and spirituality studies Photo by BU Photography Opposite: Photo courtesy of the Beck family FEATURE DEAN’S MESSAGE THE VIA TRANSFORMATIVA however, contention is not an end in 1. Central Committee transforming leadership, as distinct from of leaders and communities if they are BY MARY ELIZABETH MOORE itself. The human family longs for trans- (WCC), “An Invitation to transactional leadership (directing the to address the aches of our hurting formation, yet we struggle to find path- the Pilgrimage of Justice and simple exchange of goods and services). world and transform racism and classism Peace, Rev.,” Doc. #GEN05 This has been an academic year to ways that promise life. rev, Geneva, Switzerland, He said that transforming leadership into relationships of dignity; sexual and remember. In 2014–2015, we celebrated July 2–8, 2014, 1. Access at: “occurs when one or gender disputes into the 175th anniversary of the founding THE THREE PATHS TO PEACE GEN05rev_APPROVED_ more persons engage causes for listening of the Boston University School of Religious bodies are seeking their InvitationPilgrimageJusticePeace. with others in such a and inclusion; and pdf. Theology. We witnessed devastating voices in this fray. In its Tenth way that leaders and Purpose and transformation are differences in theo- racial violence at the same time that we Assembly in Busan, Republic of Korea, 2. Ibid., 4. followers raise one logical perspectives commemorated the 50th anniversary of the World Council of Churches 3. James MacGregor Burns, another to higher complementary. When a and religious prac- Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore Leadership (New York: landmark legislative acts for voting and (WCC) issued “An Invitation to the HarperPerennial, 2010, 1978), 19. levels of motiva- community identifies a purpose tices into celebra- civil rights, social security, and elemen- Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace,” tion and morality.”4 tions of difference. 4. Ibid., 19–20. tary and secondary education. As this challenging all people “to engage Purpose and transfor- but takes no steps toward A colleague 5. See, for example: Walter issue of focus went to press, 37 states their God-given gifts in transforming Fluker, Ethical Leadership: The mation are comple- achieving it, that purpose may in peacebuilding allow gay marriage, and the US Supreme actions.” It then called churches to Quest for Character, Civility, mentary. When a recently expressed Court was scheduled to hear a milestone be “communities of healing and and Community (Minneapolis: community identi- lie dormant for years. When a the wish that a Augsburg Fortress, 2009); case on same-sex marriage. Political hall- compassion,” heralding the Good News fies a purpose but community works toward Nelson Mandela Margaret Wheatley, Finding Our ways and religious communities are torn and a vision of justice and peace.1 The takes no steps toward would arise in the Way: Leadership for an Uncertain transformation without purpose, asunder by diverse points of view, often WCC statement identified three Time (San Francisco: Berrett- achieving it, that pur- Middle East, where expressed in ways that obliterate anyone dimensions of this work: via positiva, Koehler, 2005); Ronald A. pose may lie dormant or with a destructive aim, the multiple countries who differs. Whatever your social and for celebrating gifts; via negativa, for Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive for years. When a and peoples are Leadership: Tools and Tactics for results might be diffuse, political views, you will recognize the attending to wounds; and via trans- community works torn by conflict.
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