Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2015
Disillusionment: An Unexpected Friend of Spiritual Formation, Alicia Britt Chole
God's Focus on the Fatherless: A Lens to Inform Spiritual Impact in the Local Church, Dwight David Croy
Sacred Nakedness Narraphor: The Untold Story of Shame & Glory, Daniel J. Donohue
Short-Term Missions -- Long-Term Change, Christopher Ellis
Emerging Young Adult Spiritual Formation: A Developmental Approach for an Intergenerational Church, Frederick R. Fay
The Warrior Journey: A Hope Enhancement Intervention for Veterans with Combat-Related PTSD, Wesley H. Fleming
Sustainable Church Planting: A Missional Approach, Brandon Hempel
A Simple Cup of Coffee: What Starbucks Can Teach the Church About Hospitality In How We Reach Our Neighbors, John Austin Hinkle Jr.
Journeying with Jesus: A Transformational Discipleship for Canadian Chinese Churches in Toronto; A Paradigm Shift, Suzan Kam-Shan Ho
Serving and Following: Setting Aside Leadercentricity, D. David Kessler
Re-Imagining Eros: Dare to Fall in Love with God, Christopher Peter Lindstrom
Breaking Barriers that Divide Christians and Muslims in Nigeria and Building a Redemptive Relationship, Frederick Chukwuma Obodoagha
Young Adults Leaving the Church: The Tie to Intentional Spiritual Mentoring Among Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Teens Through Youth and Confirmation Ministry, Serena Alexandria Pace
The Prophetic Hope of Emerging Adulthood: Emerging Together toward an Abundant Life, Adam David Pallay
The United Methodist Church and the Willingness to Embrace Change: Attracting Members of the Emerging Generation and a Return to Vitality, Jody Glenn Ray
Restoring Burnout Millenial Ministry Leaders within a Western North American Digital Society, Richard S. Rhoads
Intimate Partner Violence in the Black Church: Bridging the Gap between Awareness and Policy Development, Carlos Jermaine Richard
Take it to the Bridge: The Arts of Interfaith Peacebuilding, Sharenda Roam
Monastic Missional Pilgrim Communities in Liquid Modern Spain, Garrick C. Roegner
Liminal Spaces: A Narrative Spirituality of the Bible, Thomas J. Rundel
Toward a Corporeal, Biblical Narrative: A Study in Church Transformation, David C. Scafide
Potential Worldview and Behavioral Transformation within the Ugandan LGBT and Evangelical Context, Phil Smart
The Buzz about the Church: Re-Imagining Discipleship through a Theology of Beekeeping, Matthew Todd Thomas
In his Disciple Making Ministry, How Did Jesus Christ Determine What to Say and/or Do?, David A. Toth
People with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Heal with Story, Donald M. Twist
Community Interventions in Kenya Providing Care and Support for Orphaned Girls in High School and College Aged 14-24, Joy Eunice Wambui Mindo
Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2014
The Multiple Intelligences as Holistic Spiritual Formation in Youth Ministry, Grant E. Carey
Brain-Based Worship: Re-membering the Mind-Body Connection, Paula Champion-Jones
Embracing Maturity: An Ignatian Christian Leadership Formation Model for Emerging Adults, Todd Dustin Clark
Theosis: The Core of Our Ancient/Future Faith and Its Relevance to Evangelicalism at the Close of the Modern Era, Michael Paul Gama
The Great Co-Mission: A Postmodern Missiology, Greg G. Glatz
Accessible Spiritual Practices through Classic Forms of Prayer, Clyde Vernon Hartline
Fire, Water and Wind: God's Transformational Narrative, Norbert Haukenfrers
Support Groups for Men: Encouraging Healthy Relationships with God and Others, John Henry McKinney II
Using Storytelling (Including Image, Metaphor and Narrative) in Cross-Generational, Cross-Cultural Twenty-First Century Evangelism, Rick D. McKinney
Sustainable Faith: How the Neuroscience of Emotion Promotes Spiritual Transformation, Christine M. Mutch
The Faith Web: A Networking of the Body of Christ to Mitigate Relationship Voids and Strengthen the Faith Community, Scott M. Ness
Missional Communities: Equipping Churches to Reach Their Local Context, Robert Glen Parker
Burnout and the Gospel: Moving from Burnout to True Elders with the Gospel Grand Narrative, Cary S. Peterson
Congregational Leadership Development through Mentorships: Preparing Each Generation for the Church's Future through Family Systems Theory, Danny Wayne Russell
Sending Students: Addressing Barriers University Students Face in Going to the World as Missionaries, Shane Sebastian
Technefication: The Art and Craft of Utilizing Technology in Spiritual Practices, Patrick J. Sehl Jr.
Male Call: The Role of the Church in Awakening Young Men to their Vocational Purpose, Thomas G. Shaw
Promoting Missionary Mutual Care Through Spiritual Community, David L. Shepherd
Reclaiming The Kingdom of God Metaphor for the Twenty-First-Century Church, Timothy R. Willson
A Renewed Homiletic for the Twenty-First-Century Church, Douglas Witherup
Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2013
Thriving in broken futures: the paradox of church in historic watersheds, Christopher Lars Arney
Shift: Expanding Preaching for a Social Media World, Bryce Ashlin-Mayo
These dead bones can rise again: preventing church closures in North America, Rodney F. Bertholet
Global discipleship communities empowered by the Holy Spirit, fueled by the gospel for the mission of God, Andrew Bloemker
Ruah: revelation to recognition, symbol to reality in the twenty-first century church, Georgeann Boras
One size fits all? uncovering multiple conversion avenues for effective evangelism, Tim Buechsel
Worship as playground: living the song-story of God, H. Colleen. Butcher
R3AL HOPE: Living with the End in Mind, Richard J. Callahan
From decision making to discernment: using Ignatian and Friends models of discernment in a Baptist context, Leon Kendell Cameron Jr.
Realms and redescription in Ricoeur: discovering fresh metaphoric networks for spiritual formation in a postmodern consumer culture, Anderson Campbell
Together, full of wisdom and the Holy Spirit: a paradigm for congregational discernment and decision making, Merrie Schoenman Carson
Church, culture and arts: the supremacy of arts in engaging church with culture in the twenty-first century North American urban neighborhoods, Richard Yung H. Chung
Jesus and his Jewish World: A Resource That Brings First-Century Biblical Context into the Twenty-First-Century World Through Technology, Paul D. Conway
Holiness of heart and life for the 21st-century church, Catherine Newberry Davis
The faith journey in H3, Randall J. Davis
The Jesus prayer for Pentecostals: a fresh proposal for spiritual formation in the Pentecostal church, Charles T. Dawes
Living Rhythms: Movements Toward Health and Holiness, Jill K. Sidler Fleagle
The Hope of an Open Hand: Civility as an Invitation to Incarnational Ministry, Kevin Dwight Glenn
How information communication technology can reshape missional ecclesiology: the making of a technomissional church, Michael D. Hearn Jr.
No longer in Kansas: the mainline church in the postmodern age, Susan Leo
Ordinary Community: Missional Communities as a Helpful Ecclesial Response to the Problem of Postmodernism and Consumerism for the American Evangelical Church, Christopher W. Marshall
Redeeming disruptions: a recommended model of spiritual formation for Christian Churches of the Pacific Northwest, Tony L. Nelson
Transcending the cultural and socio-political conditions in Friends decision-making processes: case of Burundi, David Niyonzima
Re-placing the church: missional opportunities in the emerging energy crisis, Brandon D. Rhodes
Identity formation in mixed-gender leadership community: forming leadership relationships around a common identity and a shared biblical narrative, Vicki A. Scheib
The Role of Spiritual Formation and Ministry Governance in Developing Mission-Oriented Governing Boards, Allen Schoonover
Describing a Pentecostal Spirituality and Eploring these Expressions within a Spiritual Formation Model, Jeremy Daniel Sims
Funny uncles and sons of Hell: gospelling in a persistent postmodern world, Joseph R. Skillen
Finding the way forward: re-introducing the practice of discernment as a means of determining God's direction for the Church of God reformation movement, Bruce W. Steffensen
Relational discernment : moving towards a holistic approach, Vonna Thomas
Message, Mode and Milieu: Recalling an Ancient Approach to Christian Discipleship Sufficient for the Western-Consumerist Context of the American College Student, William John Westfall
Does the presence or absence of virtues define the character of a leader and impact performance?, Glenn A. Williams
The right stuff at the right time: helping emerging leaders develop a leadership foundation, Randy Worden
Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2012
Positive deviance : empowering ecclesial contextualization with theological praxis, Douglas Wayne Balzer
Image of grace: seeing and sharing the gospel through imagery, David Banks
Saturday leadership: submitted, engaged leadership for the exilic and templeless church, Henry Berg
Preparing men for eldership in an upper middle class local church through small group mentoring, Greggory Borror
Fingerprints of God: change and innovation at work in the church, Kristin D. Longenecker Bullock
Spiritual direction as preventative clergy care: presented in a Wesleyan Quadrilateral paradigm, Terry L. Clees
Inviting and encouraging racial, cultural, ethnic, and generational diversity within ecclesial community, Matthew D. Deames
Creating depth in the shallows: discipling Millennials in a technological culture, Carla Ann and Matthew Dyment
Empowered coaching: drawing out the best in those you lead, Dennis W. Easter
The church revolution from the edge, Dottie Escobedo-Frank
Four-footed ministers in formation: the four-footed ministers pastoral-care program training manual for dog ministry based on the CAM/PS model, Jerilyn E. Felton
Voices of the Imago Consumere: the dialogic formation of Christian identity in American consumer iculture, William D. Gibson
The 100 words that make us Christian, Thomas E. Ingram
Building a strong and firm marriage for Asian immigrant couples, Djohan Kusnadi
The response-able church: the incarnational identity of embraced spontaneity, Ted Moeller
Catechetical approach to redefining relationship between pastors and members of the congregation with an eye to mitigating pastoral burnout, Laurie J. Mulkey
Music as a bridge: an alternative for existing historical churches in reaching young adults, David B. Parker
A new creation: reimagining the beginning, the end and everything in between toward an evangelical environmental ethos, Russell Jerrold Pierson
Formed: a curriculum for Christlikeness for new monastic communities, Kevin Rains
A new way of life in ministry: sustaining hope in the midst of burnout, Benjamin C. Staley