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North American churches’ struggle with contemporary culture seems to coincide with evidence offered in Charles Taylor’s evaluation of the Secular Age and expressed through the theological analysis of...

The United States has been experiencing decline in traditional expressions of church for some time. Current research indicates that people seeking spirituality and community do so outside of the...

How might an understanding of shame inform our communal and formative spiritual practices in the church? The conceptional framework is a work in practical theology that begins with an autoethnographic...

The San Gabriel Valley is the largest majority Latinx and Asian region in the United States, and it is faced with the challenge of ever-increasing socioeconomic disparity. This has created an urban...

Christ Church is a sixty-one-year-old parish with a rich history of worship in the Anglican tradition. Like many established congregations in North America, the church is discerning how to faithfully...

In Wesleyan Christian Spirituality, spiritual formation for Christlikeness is a life-long pursuit of holiness in practical living, which implies spiritual health. The failure to deeply appreciate the...

El abuso o violencia doméstica a mujeres, que incluye agresión física y agresión psicológica, es un serio problema de salud pública y constituye importante causa de problemas crónicos. La violencia...

This dissertation explores the difficulties and challenges pastors and local churches often experience with a transition of leadership between a tenured lead pastor and a new lead pastor. This study...

La inmigración latinoamericana, entre muchos otros, es un fenómeno social de gran impacto en todo el país. El enfoque de esta investigación es sugerir estrategias que ayuden a las iglesias a cumplir...

Thousands of Spanish-speaking immigrants have moved into the rural towns of the U.S. Heartland, eschewing the metropolitan Latinx communities of West and East Coasts to settle in the central farming...

The problem of "A Change is Gonna Come" (Sam Cook) is the dichotomy between The Urban Black Church and the community. A Cross-Generational ecclesial is the process for bridging gaps within the...

La iglesia del Nazareno de Donna Texas está integrada con miembros de diversidad multicultural. Esto presenta desafíos y discrepancias en las relaciones interpersonales entre ellos, en lo siguiente...

The digital age offers new ways for educational institutions to connect with their students through technology. These new opportunities bring with them new pedagogies, which shift the roles of...

A project was to encourage and equip the community of faith to minister to people during their end-of-life season as well as their families. "It has encouraged me not to forget these folks, but to...

A project describing a congregation's education in liturgy and worship and its effect on spiritual formation. The true end goal of this project was Christian formation – helping the people of...

Pop culture and worship are liturgies with power and potential to shape our character and desires. This project examines the formative influence of secular culture and Christian worship on the people...

A project how ecclesiology affects a chaplain's decision whether or not to participate in the garrison chapel program.

This project sought a reimaging of the missional culture of CrossWalk Community Church of the Nazarene (CCN), located in Westland Michigan. It was believed that through this reimagining, a discernable...

The telos of this study is the development of disciples, who passionately pursue Christlikeness and actively seek to fulfill the Great Commission. A commitment to be a Christlike disciple and to make...

Engaging both the sacramental commitment and diversity of baptismal practices within the Church of the Nazarene, this study pursues the development of a local congregation's receptivity of a further...

This thesis explores the understanding and meaning of hospitality from a biblical perspective utilizing the hospitality language found in the Gospel of John. It is acknowledged that although the word...