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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...

As congregations in America begin to embrace a missional understanding of theology and ministry practice, existing churches influenced by attractional models of ministry will need to recognize the...

This dissertation intends to address the fragmentation that exists within the church along racial and ethnic lines by proposing a holistic discipleship model that incorporates Cultural Intelligence...

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...

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...

Christianity is meant to be a beacon of hope and good news to the marginalized. One group that is marginalized throughout local communities in the United States are the victims and survivors of...

Today’s college students often struggle in their quest for self-exploration. This struggle is intensified by the increasing demands of their electronic devices combined with the lack of direction in...

El texto bíblico de Mateo 16:18b afirma: “…sobre esta roca edificaré mi iglesia; y las puertas del Hades no prevalecerán contra ella”. Esta declaración manifiesta el plan eterno e inmutable de Dios...

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...

At the edge of the urban sprawl, exurban communities are experiencing rapid growth and change. Longtime residents of rural heritage collide with newcomers from urban and suburban backgrounds. This...

Over the past four hundred years, American evangelicalism has often preached a shallow holiness message that failed to migrate the believer from holiness of heart to holiness of life because it has...

Historically, the Christian church in the United States has played a role in the segregation of worshipers based on ethnicity. This segregation has become harmful to our neighborhoods, communities...

The significant challenges emerging adults face in this cultural moment require creativity, relational investment, and a commitment to spiritual formation rooted in time-tested ways. Older adults in...

The ecclesiastical world has operated primarily from a technical leadership paradigm. The technical paradigm is hierarchical and relies heavily on previously implemented modes of operation and problem...

“How can I learn to discern the voice of God?” “How can I pray?” “Is there more to prayer than asking God for things?” These are questions that I have heard repeatedly over the years of pastoral...

Mass incarceration is well documented in the United States. Seeking to understand why we have the highest incarceration rate in the world is essential work that must continue. The purpose of this work...

An essay on imprisonment could cover many areas from the inhumaneness of solitary confinement and its contribution to mental illness, Christians around the globe imprisoned for their faith, injustices...

In this series on women in ministry produced by Global Clergy Development, Dr. Jesse Middendorf, Church of the Nazarene General Superintendent Emeritus, introduces the Course of Study Module...

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...

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...

Condensed from chapter 9 of a soon-to-be-published Introduction to Missions textbook, Discovering Mission, by Chuck Gailey and Howard Culbertson. Roger Peterson, long-time head of the Fellowship of...

As we look carefully at Christ’s strategy, we might consider that short-term opportunities such as Mission Corps serve the purposes of: 1) Acting as a prerequisite and apprenticeship for long-term...

Though long overlooked as a topic of scholarly study, in recent years this phenomenon has gained the attention of more than a few writers and missiologists. Many decry the horrible mistakes made in...

Is it worth it to send and receive short-term mission teams? Is the risk worth the reward? In this paper I will answer this question solely in the context of the Church of the Nazarene. I believe that...