26 Mar 2021: The Decline of Seminaries: What’s happening in the larger context surrounding DMin programs
We must find ways to let Jesus out of academic prison....
We must find ways to let Jesus out of academic prison....
The reflection loop closes the gap between your understanding of God’s truth and your behavior....
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."...
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?...
Given the mission of Doctor of Ministry programs to develop theologically reflective practitioners, Dyrness’s book provides an excellent resource for encouraging students to consider fresh theological perspectives on God’s activity in a pluralistic world....
What kinds of projects are DMin students doing at schools represented by ADME? We are introducing a new feature in The Journal of Christian Ministry in which directors of DMin programs nominate the best project completed at their schools in the last year. ...
“Insider movements” are a growing phenomenon in the 10/40 window of Africa and Asia. These movements are groups of Muslims, Hindus, or Buddhists who follow Jesus as their Lord and Savior but who still retain their cultural/religious identity in their original religion....
Dr. Perry Shaw suggests in the preface of his "Transforming Theological Education" that a common outcome of seminary preparation is the transformation of students passionate for ministry into students passionate for academia "with little idea how to empower the church and often with no genuine...
Amos Yong hosts a dialogue of contemporary voices representing a spectrum of thinkers and disciplines in search of "an effective model of Christian theological inquiry." ...
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....