Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2019
The Melody of Mutuality: Integrating Theological and Psychological Principles for Egalitarian Churches to Better Support Marriages, Jennifer J. Dean-Hill
Using Comedy to Build Community in Local Churches: How Laughing Together Can Bring People Together, Jason T. Deuman
YidBrik: Historical, Practical, Relational, and Theological Concepts and Challenges in Jewish-Christian Relations, Jonathan Esterman
Soul Journey: Rediscovering the Sacred Paths for Body, Heart, and Mind, Christopher Fillingham
Breaking Evangelical: an Attachment-Focused Framework for Healing Spiritual Trauma, Ashley Davis Gavila
A Journey Through the Traditional and Biblical Church Leadership Practices: With Special Consideration to Administering the Church Ordinances, Lynda Wright Gittens
Through the Valley of Darkness: Spiritual Formation for Pain Sufferers Within the Context of Evangelicalism Today, Michael Golden
“Me? An Addict?” Good News For Shame and Addiction, Rebecca Grisell
The Church's Lament: Moving the White Church from Grief of Complicity to Lament, Kristin Hamilton
Reframing the Gospel For Millennials: A Study in Shame, Identity, and Belonging, Douglas Heck
The U.S. Workplace is an Essential Environment for Christians to Evangelize Their Coworkers Who Do Not Know Jesus, Douglas Hurley
A New Koinonia: Rediscovering Community Through Online Communities of Practice, Christal M. N. Jenkins
Forming Anglican Wayfinders in Aotearoa: A Contextual Approach to Ministerial Preparation, Karen Kemp
The Ecumenical Remnant: Using a Narrative Approach to Revelation to Form Missional Imagination in an Adventist Context, Michael Larson
Re-Imagining the Lord's Supper as a Place of Belonging and Hospitality in the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, Katy Drage Lines
The Promise and Purpose of Love and Belonging in Shaping the Spiritual Destiny of Sixth Graders, Jim Newby
The End Signs! Are We Getting the Message?, Terry L. Rankin
Local Church Revitalization Through Christological Discipleship, Philip Rolsing
Embracing the Experience of Glossolalia (“Speaking in Tongues”) as a Principal Discipline of Christian Spiritual Formation, Patricia A. Ruse
Millennial World-Changers: Engaging This Cause-Driven Generation, Katheryn Anne Saunders
Becoming Stuck in Complicated Grief: Turning Loss Into Resilience, Hope, and Healing, Elizabeth (Pam) Strachan-Proudfit
Renewing the Jesus Movement in the Episcopal Church: Weaving Good News Into Spiritual Formation, Robert Swope
Children's Faith Formation As Mutually Transforming Opportunity: Leading Systemic Change, Robin Michelle Turner
A Pentecostal Expression of Holistic Reflection in the Improvement of Pastoral Leadership Practices, Gabriella Van Breda
The Identification of and Solution to Commonly Held Evangelical Beliefs and Perspectives That Create Barriers to Spiritual Formation, Ken Van Vliet
Field Theory Toward a Post Critical Theory of Metaphor, Lori Wagner
My Daily Labor to Pursue: A Wesleyan Perspective on the Integration of Faith and Work, Jason Wellman
Leadership and Commitment in Pentecostal Churches, Jason T. Whitehead
Rethinking Evangelism as Discipleship: Equipping Followers to Live Incarnational Lives Outside the Walls, Lisa A. Willey
A Missiology of With: The Catalyst for Missionary Effectiveness in the 21st Century, Jennifer Williamson
Optimism For Church Growth: Encouraging Lessons From Christian Revivalists For Generations Primed to Flourish, Michael L. Wilson
Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2018
Food and Faith: Making Food and Eating Choices Based on Evidence and Faith, James David Ahasay
Transforming Drug Addicts' Lives: Restoration Christian Outreach Community (RCOC) In Northwest Mississippi, Rose Maria McCarthy Anding
Creating an International Learning Community, Marc D. Andresen
Following the Man of Sorrows: A Theology of Suffering for Spiritual Formation, David Russell Beach
Developing Gospel Movement Leaders, Jacqueline E. Bland
A Portrait of a Successful Pastor: Reanimating the Pastor as Shepherd in a Success Oriented Culture, Steve Bontrager
Oral Culture and Digital Natives: What the American Church Can Learn from the Mission Field, Pamela Jean Hiscock Braman
How Does the Presence and Management of Leadership Tension Affect Leaders and the Organizations They Lead?, Aaron A. Cole
The Church Has Left the Building: A Leadership Perspective of Online Church versus Traditional Church, Valerie E. Crumpton
Faith Formation in a Frantic World: Leverage Your Phone to Transform Your Heart and Mind, Gregg Peter Farah
Reviving Aspects of Ateetee: An Arsi Oromo Women's Musical Ritual to Empower Women to Protect Their Human Rights and Participate in Society's Social and Religious Life, Talilee B. Fiqruu
Principles for Success in Succession of the Senior Leader, Phillip D. Goldsberry Sr.
Between Breaths: the Dialogic Shape of Christian Authority, Meghan Larissa Good
The Jesus Quotient: IQ -> EQ -> AQ, Jennie A. Harrop
A Discussion Starter on the Possibilities and Implications of Cultural Intelligence for Worship, Garfield O. Harvey
Shema, Shabbat, Shalom, and a Savior: Implications for Pastoral Ministry, Richard Hovey
The Contemporary Problems and Solutions that Influence the Exodus Population of Christians, Laura Lynn Howard
Transcendence at the Table: a Transfigurational Experience for Ecclesia while Breaking Bread Together, Julia Rachelle Hurlow
EPIC Discipleship Model for the Korean Millennials Through a Hybrid Program, Young-Hoon Jin
A Study in Worship: Blending the African American Style of Preaching with Epic Preaching, Jamale D. Kempt
Engaging Millennials through the Tradition of the Holy Spirit and Mission of the Assemblies of God, Jason D. Kennedy
A Cost-Sensitive Model for Revitalizing United Methodist Churches, Kory Knott
A Rhythm, Ritual and Rule for a Wisdom Monastic Community for Second Half of Life Pilgrims, Mary Laymon
Fostering Equanimity through Spiritual Disciplines to Increase Undergraduate Retention at Greenville University, Patrick Monroe Miller
Never Alone: Discovering the Path to Burnout Avoidance, Rick Millikin
Key Components of a Culturally Relevant Multiethnic Church Model, Pablo Morales
Pastoral Well-Being & Beyond: Three Streams of Pastoral Health and Personal Development, Brandon J. Morrow
The Digital Catechism: Confirmation for a Digital World, James Mueller
Where the Desert Fathers and Mothers Meet Permaculture, Brenda Nagunst
Narrative-Based Visual Theology for Oral Learning Pastor Training, Raymond Neu
Pastoral Leadership for the Small, Rural Church: the Second Career Pastor, Randall C. Nichols
Discipleship for the Next Generation: Engaging the Emerging Generation, Kevin Norwood
Working Priests: Improving the Care for Vineyard Bivocational Pastors, Aaron Peterson
Wrestling for the Souls of the Survivors: Helping Partners who are Married to Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, John N. Raymond
Satanic Influences in the American Christian Church in a Post-Modern Consumer Society, Jerry F. Ressa
Creating Dialogical Preaching Experiences, Nathan A. Rouse
Towards Women Leaders in the Palestinian Evangelical Church, Madleine Sara
A Semiotic Approach to Conflict Transformation: Can Signs and Symbols Help Make Peace?, Samuel Kefas Sarpiya
The Spirit-Led Coach: an Alternative Approach to Athletic Coaching, Sean Silverii
Her Story: Forming a Woman's Voice in the Pulpit, Mindy Smith
Forming Resilient Rostered Ministers: a Proposed Model for First Call Ministry Formation for the North/West Lower Michigan Synod-ELCA, Christian A. Timm
The Last Judge: Shepherding and Parenting the Church and Laity through a 21st Century Family Dynamic, Kevin Anthony Wade
The Future of Undergraduate Biblical Higher Education: ABHE and the Bible College Movement, T. Scott Womble
Crossing Lines/Weaving Lives: Storytelling as a Means of Building Bridges across the Progressive/Conservative Divide, Jennifer Yocum
God With/In: Heal the World. Sing the Good News, Amanda Zentz-Alo
Creating an Officer Lifescape: a Path for the Vocational and Spiritual Formation of Salvation Army Officer-Moms, Janene Zielinski
Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2017
The Ecological Gift of Spiritual Formation: A Renewal for Healthy Clergy, Jody Becker
Cultivating Contemplative Availability, Ronald Charles Coward Jr.
Infusing a Paradigm of Mission and Multiplication into the Greater Ohio District of the Wesleyan Church, Christopher Dyer
In the Way They Should Go: Nurturing the Relational and Spiritual Nature of Children, Jamee Free
Praying about Forgiveness in Japanese, English, and beyond Words: Bilingualism as an Underexplored Resource for Christian Spiritual Formation, Andrea Lundquist Johnson
Come to the Table: An Ancient-Future Ecclesiology, Christopher Lapp
A Church Family's Path through Founding Pastor Transition, Nick Martineau
Revitalization of Assemblies of God Churches in Stagnation or Decline, Mark L. Merrill
Roots, Routes, And Religion: Calling Playful Pilgrims To Follow The Way Of Jesus, Pamela Morse
Missional Communities: Why They Are Failing and How to Help Them Thrive, Matthew L. Murphy
Aging Gracefully: The Art of Elegant Kenosis, Mary A. Pandiani
Innovation and the Local Congregation: Unleashing the Creative Power of Communities of Faith, Dan S. Poffenberger
Meaning-Making as a Formational Pathway for Christian Adolescents, Timothy C. Prewette
The Restoration-Focused Church, David Ralph
The Story Pastor: A Faithful and Fruitful Identity for Pastors, Jordan Rimmer
The Established and the Unfolding Tension: A Resonance of Renewal for the Church of the Nazarene, Nathan Michael Roskam
Giving Permission for Creative Preaching in the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod: Returning to Our Creative Roots, Glen Schlecht