The Problem with Freshmen
Here at Boston University, we are in the throes of our sixth orientation session, out of eight, for incoming undergraduates. When you matriculate about 4,200 undergrads each fall, it takes a while to get them all informed about the workings of student life and registered for courses. The existential situation of an incoming undergraduate has [...]
Inquiry to Delta Airlines
The following is the text of a message I sent to Delta Airlines in response to the incident of two Imams being removed from a Delta flight at the behest of one of their pilots. More information about the incident is available here. Hello, I am writing in regards to a customer care issue not [...]
Chaos, Apparently
I thoroughly enjoy reading David Brooks’ columns in The New York Times. I particularly enjoy his columns parsing social science literature. How many columnists in the United States, or anywhere else for that matter, are well versed in the current trends in evolutionary psychology or biological anthropology? And so I was quite pleased to delve [...]
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda – Spiderman
<<<SPOILER ALERT!>>> Last night I went to see Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark on Broadway, (from the second row, no less). Significant controversy surrounds the show, which has provided much comedic material to the likes of Saturday Night Live and Conan O’Brian. One reason may be the cost, coming in at over $65 million (or [...]
Student Christian Movement – USA
About ten days before embarking on a 12 day trip to Atlanta to attend two conferences I got one of those out-of-the-blue emails that both clergy and graduate students are prone to receive. At first I was confused because the “from” line of the email read the name of a friend I haven’t been in [...]
Vocation at the Heart of Formation
What a rich blessing it was to help host the Fund for Theological Education’s Leaders in Ministry Conference at Boston University, June 16-20, 2010. Having been an FTE Undergraduate and Ministry Fellow in 2004-2006, it was great both to give something back to an organization that was at the heart of my own formation process [...]
Br. Larry Whitney
Br. Larry is the University Chaplain for Community Life at Boston University's Marsh Chapel and an STM student in philosophical theology at the Boston University School of Theology.
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Contributing Scholars
Honna EichlerHonna is the Managing Director at State of Formation. She has a Master of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary and is the Grants Manager at Interfaith Worker Justice in Chicago, IL.
Phillipe CopelandPhillipe Copeland is a Baha'i, a doctoral candidate in social work, a dedicated blogger, a husband and a father.
Mary Ann KaiserMary Ann is a third year MDiv student at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She is a lesbian feminist who plans to pursue a PhD in Ecofeminist Theology. Though her interests are many, she is currently focused on exploring the relationship between humans, nonhuman animals, and the Divine.