07 Mar 2022: Attending to Racial Diversity Within ATS: Historical Perspectives, Present Initiatives, and Future Programming
Much progress yet much to do....
Much progress yet much to do....
Ministry leaders and educators weigh in....
We must find ways to let Jesus out of academic prison....
Our constituency expressed increasing hunger for spiritual nourishment...
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. ...
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."...
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....
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?...
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....
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...