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....
This paper demonstrates that engaging the writings of family systems theorists Murray Bowen, Edwin H. Friedman, Michael E. Kerr, Peter L. Steinke, and Ronald W. Richardson and employing key family systems concepts when designing, implementing, and evaluating Doctor of Ministry projects will enhance their quality....
This paper proposes a narrative approach to theological reflection that better suits both the nature of the D.Min. degree as a professional degree in the practice of ministry...
So begins the portrayal of an anxious young captain, commanding his first ship, coping with the intimidation he feels in relation to his new crew....
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....
It is the thesis of this essay that educating clergy in the absence of focal attention to ecclesiology is insufficient. ...
Defending the Faith, Engaging the Culture, is a collection of papers in which theological seminary faculty revisit topics relating to biblical inerrancy that stirred L. Russ Bush III (1944-2008), a Southern Baptist professor and apologist....
The term “pastoral ethnography” describes the intentional use of ethnographic methods—such as participant observation, qualitative interviews, focus groups, and the study of demographics and documentary evidence—as a form of pastoral care....
If your parishioners think about their faith, they will appreciate you taking the time to read God is Good, God is Great....
In SimChurch Doug Estes takes as his basic assumption that the world has moved into the digital age, bound together by technology....