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....
Ministry
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...
04 Oct Ministry in Diverse Communities
In several thought-provoking plenary sessions, Dr. Rah emphasized the temptation of a dominant culture to overlook the importance of lament, which is an important expression for minority cultures. ...
04 Oct Persuasive Pastoral Leaders
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in Accreditation, Education, Feature Article, Ministry, Research Design, Vol 7 (2018)
The art of persuasion is a competency rooted in awareness of what counts as knowledge. Although skepticism over the value of theological education and challenges to the authority of pastoral leaders are not new, they are certainly dynamic factors today....
04 Oct The Intersection of Burmese, Korean, and American Cultures
Drawing on the author’s experiences working with DMin students at Central Baptist Theological Seminary, including recent interactions with students from Myanmar, Korea, and the United States, this paper discusses the insights gained. ...
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,...
01 May Missional Church and the DMin
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in Accreditation, ATS, Feature Article, Ministry, Theological Reflection, Vol 5 (2013)
It is the thesis of this essay that educating clergy in the absence of focal attention to ecclesiology is insufficient. ...
24 Mar The Hardest Sermons You’ll Ever Have To Preach – Book Review
Cancer. Suicide. The death of a child. As much as we wish we could avoid tragedies like these, eventually they will strike our church communities....
09 Mar Preaching the Gospel of Matthew – Book Review
Stanley P. Saunders, Associate Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, has written a helpful exegetical/homiletical commentary for those who want to preach from Matthew’s Gospel....
06 Mar The Integrated Church – Book Review
When Jesus returns to this earth, he will receive a church that is “without spot, wrinkle, or blemish (Eph. 5:27), and that church is dynamically multicultural, multiracial, and subsequently, multidimensional....