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Religion

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Voices & Opinion

The Catholic Church Elects Its First American Pope: What Should He Do First?

May 8, 2025

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Film & TV

In Sinners, Bluesmen and Vampires Face Off

May 5, 2025

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Arts & Culture

Inner Strength Gospel Choir Finds Its Way Under New Director

April 17, 2025

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Religion Has a Unique Role to Play in Advancing a Compassionate Response to Immigration

March 25, 2025

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Student Life

For Ramadan, BU Will Provide Prayer Spaces, Special Meals to Muslim Students

February 25, 2025

Staff Profile

A Tech Maestro Helps Bring Marsh Chapel into the 21st Century

February 18, 2025

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Archaeology

What Ancient Pottery Can Teach Us About Everyday Lives in the Time of Jesus and Herod the Great

January 14, 2025

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PRESIDENT CARTER

Jimmy Carter Remembered as a President Who Was Ahead of His Time

December 29, 2024

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Campus Life

BU’s Muslim Chaplaincy Tripled This Fall

December 13, 2024

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Religion and Ukraine

BU Student Researched How Russian Religion Fuels War in Ukraine

December 5, 2024

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University News

A BU Filmmaker Captures a BU Researcher’s Quest against Religious Violence

November 15, 2024

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University News

Prayers, Photos, Testimonials: BU Grieves a Year of Deaths in the Middle East

October 7, 2024

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Music

Liberation through Rhythm: BU Ethnomusicologist Studies History and Present of African Beats

August 20, 2024

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Obituaries

Rev. James Lawson, Crusading Confidant of MLK, Dies at 95

June 14, 2024

Photo: A man in a red gown gives a speech at a podium draped in a red covering. Baccalaureate speaker Walter E. Fluker (GRS’88, STH’88) told Boston University’s Class of 2024 graduates Sunday to follow the example of BU’s most famous alumnus, Martin Luther King, Jr., in striving for peace and justice. Photo by Kelly Davidson

Commencement 2024

“We Are Called, My Friends, to Be Peacemakers,” Rev. Walter E. Fluker Tells Boston University’s Baccalaureate Audience

May 19, 2024

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Student Life

Students Fasting for Ramadan Find a Home at the GSU

March 22, 2024

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2023 in Review

Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and Surprising Findings from BU Researchers

December 11, 2023

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Linguistics

How and Why Language is Weaponized

October 23, 2023

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Campus Voices

Outrage, Mourning, as BU Community, Leaders, Respond to Israel-Hamas War

October 10, 2023

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Religion

Advocacy for Women Deacons by Alum Phyllis Zagano, a World Expert, Goes before Global Vatican Gathering

September 29, 2023

Advocacy for Women Deacons by Alum Phyllis Zagano, a World Expert, Goes before Global Vatican Gathering