Seminary Professors and the Leader-shaping Task: New Wine from Old Wineskin?
General Colin Powell defined the task of leadership this way: "Great leaders articulate what the mission is--the who, what, when, where, and why"...
The Journal of Christian Ministry (JCM) is an annual publication of The Association for Doctor of Ministry Education (ADME). The purpose of this journal is to encourage theological reflection regarding the training for and practice of Christian ministry at the highest level. While recognizing and appreciating the religious diversity that exists across the globe, this journal, as its name implies, recognizes the fundamental uniqueness of Jesus Christ.
Much progress yet much to do....
Ministry leaders and educators weigh in....
The common yet often-unseen wounds that impact our students...
“The underlying factors related to our segregation remain unaddressed.”...
Our time demands creative and transformative theological education....
We must find ways to let Jesus out of academic prison....
Developing a “deep, abiding, resilient, identity as Christian human beings”...
The challenge of talking about spiritual transformation in a context of Student ...
How Do We Assess Spiritual Formation in the Age of Accountability?...
“Abuse of power happens between individuals. But systems can also be abusive....
"His kind gentle spirit was there to encourage, mentor, and guide..."...
The vitality of a ministry flows from the inside out....
Our constituency expressed increasing hunger for spiritual nourishment...
The reflection loop closes the gap between your understanding of God’s truth a...
Creating a climate where students can contribute to, and benefit from, the DMin ...
A refreshing and systematic look at servant leadership....
DMIN programs are unique in their intended balance between head, hands, and hear...
The Pew Research Center summarized its findings about Latinos and the transforma...
A naked man wandered into a worship service. One of our students, the church’s...
Social science research can be said to involve spiritual discernment and the per...
Pastoral burnout, blowup, and dropout is an alarming issue in contemporary minis...
Given the mission of Doctor of Ministry programs to develop theologically reflec...
What kinds of projects are DMin students doing at schools represented by ADME? W...
From its earliest days, the Church has struggled to be in the world but not of i...
“Insider movements” are a growing phenomenon in the 10/40 window of Africa a...
Research influences its context. While careful researchers try to minimize this ...
It was a long evening. It was about a new, very well designed, cohort model DMin...
In this article we outline an extended and practical definition of Action Resear...
This article highlights four enrollment trends among ATS seminaries that may por...
Drawing on the author’s experiences working with and for the Association of Th...
Dr. Perry Shaw suggests in the preface of his "Transforming Theological Educatio...
Amos Yong hosts a dialogue of contemporary voices representing a spectrum of thi...
Some people are born administrators. For the rest of us, it’s a steep learning...
"Ultimately, this book is about choices." Those familiar with the published work...
In his book "Faith on the Road," Rieger urges the reader to consider the migrant...
"How do you canoe over mountains?" asks Tod Bolsinger. "You don’t. If you want...
Stephen Macchia, founding president of Leadership Transformation and director of...
"Secular intellectuals have not been kind to the evangelical mind. They are incl...
A deliberate and delicate balance of principle and practice permeates the text....
Welcome to the 2017 (Volume 6) edition of The Journal of Christian Ministry!...
This paper demonstrates that engaging the writings of family systems theorists M...
The Doctor of Ministry (D.Min) degree is the most popular terminal degree offere...
In several thought-provoking plenary sessions, Dr. Rah emphasized the temptation...
The art of persuasion is a competency rooted in awareness of what counts as know...
Drawing on the author’s experiences working with DMin students at Central Bapt...
The Journal of Christian Ministry (JCM) is a publication of The Association for ...
George Barna, founder and president of Barna Research Group, has been studying C...
This paper proposes a narrative approach to theological reflection that better s...
So begins the portrayal of an anxious young captain, commanding his first ship, ...
This paper is a personal reflection revealing the author’s ideas of faith and ...
It is the thesis of this essay that educating clergy in the absence of focal att...
May God continue to guide and empower you as you continue yours important servic...
This paper argues that conversion is best construed as the willingness of a conv...
Cancer. Suicide. The death of a child. As much as we wish we could avoid tragedi...
Stanley P. Saunders, Associate Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theologica...
When Jesus returns to this earth, he will receive a church that is “without sp...
2013 recipient of 'The Journal of Christian Ministry Award of Excellence' for ou...
With a plethora of books available on leadership in today's market, this book on...
This book might just as well be titled, 'Almost Everything You Need to Know Abou...
Who should serve the church as elders and deacons? And what are the essential el...
The 2013 Editorial Board of the The Journal of Christian Ministry....
Bestselling author and poet Calvin Miller weaves his life into a masterpiece mem...
In 1979 I began my ministry as a newly ordained priest in the Episcopal Church i...
The preacher’s constant companion is the relentless approach of next Sunday’...
Out of her experience with the Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity and the Pu...
Brandon O’Brien challenges the prevailing image of a successful Christian loca...
Defending the Faith, Engaging the Culture, is a collection of papers in which th...
When looking at the existing literature on the subject of science, and specifica...
The term “pastoral ethnography” describes the intentional use of ethnographi...
Joseph Barndt addresses racism in the Christian Church head on. He firmly declar...
In Caring Cultures: How Congregations Respond to the Sick, Susan Dunlap breaks n...
Built upon his previous work in High Impact Church Boards, T. J. Addington provi...
What an intriguing title for a volume directed to ministers! The sub-heading sum...
As a D.Min. Director whose academic field is Christian Education, this is a most...
Amid the many books published in recent years on the relevance and application o...
This paper argues that although the fields of ethnography and Bowen family syste...
Welcome to the 2012, 4th volume edition of The Journal of Christian Ministry!...
C.S. Lewis wrote, “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race...
The 2012 Editorial Board of the The Journal of Christian Ministry....
In Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry, Melissa M. Kelley dr...
Watson begins his book by taking stock of the current situation facing the churc...
Norman Geisler, a well-known author of apologetics among conservative Christians...
Although organized topically, with each chapter titled after a specific practice...
If your parishioners think about their faith, they will appreciate you taking th...
Lost and Found is a research-based volume to speak to the status of the younger ...
What a title and how appropriate, Mad Church Disease - a title I wish I had thou...
A 'wild Jesus?' Exactly, say these two native Australians whose earlier writings...
Adapted from lectures on Multiculturalism delivered to the Association for Docto...
In SimChurch Doug Estes takes as his basic assumption that the world has moved i...
Theological reflection can be a major catalyst for convergence within the D.Min....
Given the many demands placed upon pastors, and the hectic pace of life in whic...
Two words in the title of this book may have grabbed your attention as they did ...
The 2011 Editorial Board of the The Journal of Christian Ministry....
Welcome to the 2011 (Volume 3) edition of The Journal of Christian Ministry!...
All of us are aware of the kind of practical and anxious theological reflection ...
As a leader, who among us has not felt like we have become the sacrifice when so...
Through winsome stories, thought-provoking questions and the offer of engaging s...
I am thrilled to announce the new Editorial Board of the The Journal of Christ...
Welcome to the 2010 (Volume 2) edition of The Journal of Christian Ministry!...
Jody Seymour's book, A Time for Healing, is as the subtitle states, about overc...
At the mention of the emerging church movement, those of us in the so-called tra...
Francis Bacon had it wrong. So claims Montague Brown, the Richard L. Bready Prof...
Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross: Contemporary Images of the Atonement is a ...
Doctor of Ministry programs are, in my opinion, far more important for the churc...
General Colin Powell defined the task of leadership this way: "Great leaders art...
A Concise Guide to Pastoral Planning is from the Concise Guide Series produced b...
The framework stresses the cultivation of both "Vision and Discernment," after t...
Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch have once again taken the task to challenge the ch...
General Colin Powell defined the task of leadership this way: "Great leaders articulate what the mission is--the who, what, when, where, and why"...
A Concise Guide to Pastoral Planning is from the Concise Guide Series produced by Ave Maria Press and authored by Dr. William Pickett....
The framework stresses the cultivation of both "Vision and Discernment," after the now classic written by Wood in the '80's which stresses the...
Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch have once again taken the task to challenge the church to move beyond safety and to engage the...