08 Mar 2023: Maslow’s Elephant: Economic Barriers to Flourishing in Ministry
"It is important that in our eagerness to share practices and encourage healthy self-care, we do not overlook the economic realities of many ministry leaders’ lives."...
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28 Mar 2019: Latino-ization of the Church in the United States
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in Church, Culture, Current Issue, Feature Article, Theological Reflection, Uncategorized, Vol 8 (2019)
The Pew Research Center summarized its findings about Latinos and the transformation of American religion saying that "understanding religious faith among Latinos is essential to understanding the future of this population as well as the evolving nature of religion in the United States."...
24 Mar The Best DMin Projects of the Year – 2018-19
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in Best DMin Project of the Year Nominations, Church, Current Issue, Family Systems, Leadership, Theological Reflection, Vol 8 (2019)
What kinds of projects are DMin students doing at schools represented by ADME? We are introducing a new feature in The Journal of Christian Ministry in which directors of DMin programs nominate the best project completed at their schools in the last year. ...
07 Mar Redeeming Administration – Book Review
Some people are born administrators. For the rest of us, it’s a steep learning curve....
06 Mar Great Commission, Great Compassion – Book Review
"Ultimately, this book is about choices." Those familiar with the published work of Paul Borthwick, which spans 30 years of research and writing, will be accustomed to the focused challenges that the author provides, particularly along the lines of global perspective and Great Commission engagement....
06 Mar Canoeing the Mountains – Book Review
"How do you canoe over mountains?" asks Tod Bolsinger. "You don’t. If you want to continue forward, you change". Canoeing the Mountains is about "the kind of leadership necessary for the local church to take the Christian mission into the uncharted territory of a post-Christendom...
06 Mar Broken and Whole – Book Review
Stephen Macchia, founding president of Leadership Transformation and director of the Pierce Center for Disciple-Building at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, has put together an exceptional practical guide for Christian leaders on how to experience restoration in the context of human brokenness through God’s love....
06 Mar Apostles of Reason – Book Review
"Secular intellectuals have not been kind to the evangelical mind. They are inclined to see evangelicals as a menace to progress and free thought. Yet their scorn cannot erase a vexing fact: American evangelicals, so maligned as anti-intellectual, have a habit of taking certain ideas...
04 Oct Critical Issues in Church Revitalization
George Barna, founder and president of Barna Research Group, has been studying Christian churches in America for thirty years. In 1998, he wrote his twenty-fourth book - The Second Coming of the Church. The result of four years of research, Barna called this book more personal,...
05 Apr Not Ashamed of the Gospel
This paper argues that conversion is best construed as the willingness of a convert to endure shame for the sake of identifying publicly with Jesus Christ. ...