02 Apr 2020: Together in Prayer: Group Spiritual Direction
Our constituency expressed increasing hunger for spiritual nourishment...
Feature Article
12 Apr 2019: Character Development: Core Training in a Diverse Community
DMIN programs are unique in their intended balance between head, hands, and heart – intellectual growth, skill enhancement, and character development. Maintaining this balance is challenging. ...
28 Mar 2019: Latino-ization of the Church in the United States
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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."...
27 Mar 2019: With DMin Students, the Future is Now
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A naked man wandered into a worship service. One of our students, the church’s associate pastor, had to diagnose and respond to this awkward situation....
27 Mar 2019: The Spies in Numbers 13 as a Research Process
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in Current Issue, Feature Article, Research Design, Theological Reflection, Vol 8 (2019)
Social science research can be said to involve spiritual discernment and the performance of the prophetic gift. However, is there a biblical basis for research since faith in God supersedes human wisdom?...
26 Mar 2019: Staying Fresh in Ministry: Reflections on Hupomoné
Pastoral burnout, blowup, and dropout is an alarming issue in contemporary ministry. The longitudinal study that the researcher is reporting on has covered twenty years of a journey exploring the dynamics of this issue....
04 Apr 2018: Action Research Ethics for DMin Students
Research influences its context. While careful researchers try to minimize this influence by, for example, avoiding research contexts where researchers exercise authority over individuals or organizations, many DMin students develop research that is designed to influence a context in which they are in power over...
04 Apr 2018: The Future of DMin Education
It was a long evening. It was about a new, very well designed, cohort model DMin program that met the ATS Commission on Accrediting standards. There was keen interest in the program being offered in a population area in a nearby state that was separated...
03 Apr Action Research for DMin Projects
In this article we outline an extended and practical definition of Action Research as a means of developing a paradigm that can help Doctor of Ministry candidates research in contexts where they are change agents....
02 Apr Four Trends That May Portend the Future for ATS Enrollment
This article highlights four enrollment trends among ATS seminaries that may portend that unknown future, plus a few more focused on the future of the Doctor of Ministry (DMin) degree....