02 Apr 2020: Together in Prayer: Group Spiritual Direction
Our constituency expressed increasing hunger for spiritual nourishment...
Spirituality
27 Mar 2019: With DMin Students, the Future is Now
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in Current Issue, Feature Article, Leadership, Research Design, Spirituality, Vol 8 (2019)
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....
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....
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 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....
13 Jun Faith as Doubting Belief
This paper is a personal reflection revealing the author’s ideas of faith and belief to have previously been inadequate as they have focussed on believing in particular certainties, even when this way of thinking about faith proved self-destructive....
12 Feb “Picturing” Lay Ministry
2013 recipient of 'The Journal of Christian Ministry Award of Excellence' for outstanding thesis-project...
12 Feb Building Below the Waterline – Book Review
With a plethora of books available on leadership in today's market, this book on leadership makes a great contribution to the literature on the subject because its focus is more on the leader than leadership....
30 May Making Confession, Hearing Confession – Book Review
In 1979 I began my ministry as a newly ordained priest in the Episcopal Church in a parish outside of Philadelphia. Almost immediately I was confronted with a responsibility for which I had been given no training or preparation in my years of seminary education....