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."...
Ministry
08 Mar 2023: Missional Leadership Formation: Reframing the Doctor of Ministry Degree
Missional Leadership Formation: Reframing the Doctor of Ministry Degree Steve Cloer, DMin Assistant Professor of Ministry/Director of DMin Program Harding School of Theology Since the 1970s, seminaries in North America have been offering a professional doctorate degree called the Doctor of Ministry, or DMin. The degree was created as a...
08 Mar 2023: The Flourishing Pastor – Book Review
"This book is a great encouragement and could be used well in teaching ministerial students or those praying about a call into ministry."...
02 Apr 2020: Leadership in Christian Perspective–Book Review
A refreshing and systematic look at servant leadership....
24 Oct 2018: ADME On Cultural Intelligence
From its earliest days, the Church has struggled to be in the world but not of it. Controversies in Rome and Corinth over what Christians could eat or not eat. Paul attempting to appease Judean nationalists in the Temple and being arrested....
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...
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 Faith on the Road – Book Review
In his book "Faith on the Road," Rieger urges the reader to consider the migrant narrative and to recognize the variant power differentials at work in other travel narratives playing out in humanity today....
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...