Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2012
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
A church in reformation: the Anglican Church of Canada responding to missio dei, Susan Titterington
The glory you gave me : a narrative theological approach to integrating and reconciling marginalized people within the local church community, Donna K. Wallace
The once and future church: discipleship and the hope of United Methodism, William H. Watson
Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2011
Designing Communitas, Kevin Tyler Bates
Who cares? establishing and integrating care systems within a framework of faith communities, medical centers, and government agencies, Elizabeth T. Boatwright
Avoiding the Debilitating Effects of Compassion Fatigue, James S. Caruso
A contemplative vocational discernment model for Christian college students, Barbara K. Dewald
Listening Life: An Approach to Spiritual Formation at Newberg Friends Church, Stephen D. Fawver
Under One Umbrella: Multiple Communities, One Church, Timothy Jacob Gillespie
Umconfirmation.com: A Web-Based, Interactive Confirmation Curriculum for United Methodist Students, Samuel R. Hayes
Conflict and the campus ministry leader : a strategy for preparation, Robert S. Henry
Adventures in churchland: discovering the beautiful mess Jesus loves, Dan Kimball
Anglican Eucharistic Liturgy: a Church-Planting Hope for the Post-Christian Culture of the Pacific Northwest, Anthony D. Kriz
The coming God: pursuing a theology of hope, Ed Love
Desert Living for Modern Day Ministers: Embracing the Life and Practice of Desert Living in Ministry Today, Kaye L. McKinley
The relationship between the great commission, the most important commandment, and abundance, Mark McNees
Embracing the Margins: Covenant Faithfulness Over Mainstream Favor, Nathaniel J. Mullen III
Dependence Versus Independence: an Evaluation of the Relationship between World Gospel Mission and the Africa Gospel Church in Kenya, Patrick L. Murunga
Telling the Gospel Master Story in the Google Era, Timothy R. Orton
Sustaining team leadership in recovery at Magnolia Baptist Church in Riverside, California, Richard Perez
Re-imaging leadership development for Millennials, John Scott Ramsey
The moral and ethical influence by the Christian faith community upon the non-Christian population of Harney County, Oregon, John D. Stauffer
Faith Journeys in the Lives of Baby Boomers, William Henry Stewart Jr.
Imagery in Spiritual Formation: Recovering a Lost Art, John P. Stone
Wikichurch: Exploring a 21st Century Incarnation Ethic for the Body of Christ, Nathan Swenson-Reinhold
Spiritual direction and evangelicals : exploring its growth, Margie Van Duzer
Spiritual abuse : when the system becomes the persecutor, Gary R. Veenhuizen
Beyond Change-Overcoming the Barriers to Small Rural Church Revitalization, Allen F. Wachter
The Nature of Evangelism in Missional Churches, Russell York
Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2010
Creating New Expressions of Worship Gatherings within Existing Churches, Eric K. Baker
Becoming Fully Human: Re-imagining Christian Discipleship for an Emerging Generation, Vincent A. Beresford
A Study on the Doctrine of Original Sin as the Foundation of Wesleyan Theology, Christopher A. Black
Elegant Leadership in Heterogeneous Ministry Settings, Karen Louise Palmbaum Claassen
Faith at work: how churches can better enable believers to integrate their personal faith in the workplace, Stuart D. Dugan
Leading as You Were Designed: Applying a Career Assessment Tool for Pastoral Compatibility in Ministry, Cameron R. Garven
Early Stage Adult Christian Formation in Emerging Northwest Culture, Robert E. Hunter
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: An Ethic of Reconciliation, David Hutchinson
Never the Same: Using Short-term Missions as a Tool for Spiritual Formation, Thomas G. Moon
Rethinking missions: a pathway for helping the next generation to fulfill Christ's Great Commission, Jon Olson
Reframing Transition, Jim Regehir
Mobilizing Christ-followers for kingdom ministry, Shonnie Scott
X-ile, Todd Seelau
Mission Fields Across the Street: Sending and Supporting Simple Church Planters as Local Missionaries, Rick Shrout
The Great Hand-Off: Empowering Effective Leadership Succession From Baby Boomer to Gen Y Leaders, John Stumbo
The Good Soil Process: A Strategic Missional Process for American Institutional Churches, Keith Tilley
Pastoral Premarital Counseling for Bi-cultural Traditional Chinese and Chinese American Couples, Joseph Yeung
Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2009
The Role of Human Emotion in Christian Discipleship, Alex Bryan
That They May Be One: Spiritual Formation and its Locus in Community, Phillip G. Carnes
Youth Ministry in the Emerging Culture, Joel Dietrich
Re-Discovering Intentional Use of the Church Covenant as the Basis for Self-Identity in a Congregational Church Community, Richard Scott Hartley
Global Christian Shifts and Missional Church Movements: Linking the Postcolonial Global South with the Postmodern West, Stephen P. Lewis
Understanding Behavioral Change Through the Integration of Theology and Emerging Sciences, William David Phillips
Sacred Flow: Discovering Life in God's Rhythm, Arthur T. Sposaro
It Takes a Missional Order to Raise a Leader: "Order-ing" Leadership Communities for Life Transformation and Missional Impact, Daniel L. Steigerwald
Grace in Paul's Letter to Titus in Light of Greco-Roman Patronage, Jeffrey R. Syverson
Seeds of Truth: The Importance of C. S. Lewis's Interactions with Child Readers in the Chronicles of Narnia, Joseph Thouvenel
Imago Dei as Missio Dei, Fourie van den Berg
Sustaining Spiritual Leadership for the Long Haul: The Center for Spiritual Renewal at Barclay College, David O. Williams
Regarding Women: Philo and Paul as Two Women in a Stoic World, Karissa Worst
Exploring the Process of Being Me as the Central Focus of Our Spiritual Journey, Jeffrey L. Zakrzewski
Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2008
Consumer Theology: Its Causes, Effects, and Solution, R. Douglas Bailey
Youthbuilders: 1974-2008 Building a Student Leadership Model, Denis Eldon Bell
A Proposal for Creating a Master of Divinity Specialization in Stewardship and an MA in Stewardship and Development Program, John R. Frank
Spiritual Conversations, Randall D. Groves
Postmodern Trinitarian Philosophy: A Multiperspectival Approach, John Barry King Jr
Offering Hope: Ministry with the Chronically Ill, Marti Gates Lundy
A Suffering Messiah? Messianic Expectations in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of 1QISA 52:14, Jenifer A. Manginelli
Resurrecting a Witch: An Intimate Look at the Roles Faith and Politics Played During the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692, Teresa M. Marbut
"Following Jesus to Burning Man" Recovering the Church's Vocation, Kerry D. McRoberts
A Strategy for Evangelism with Samoans, Tauileata Moli
Finding Life: An Organic Model of Renewal for Existing Churches, Thomas E. Rester Jr.
Where are the Twenty-Year-Olds? Tools for the Church to Connect and Retain a Generation, Lars Rood
Communicating for Influence: Christian Proclamation from the Margins, Brian A. Ross
Exploring the Impact of Consumerism and the Role of Stewardship in the Church, Christine Roush
An Epistemology of Hope: A Modest Theory of Knowledge for the (Post) Evangelical Church, Jeffrey Norman Tacklind
A Project to Foster Spiritual Formation in Online Classrooms, Robert Vaughan
"Helping People Find Freedom in Christ" A Journey Toward Fulfilling Christian Ministry in Community, Clifford E. Watt
Emmanuel "God With Us" in Suffering, E. Douglas William Jr.
Remembering to be Faithful: The Role of Humility in the Revitalization of Pentecostal Churches, James O. Williams
Movies as the Vernacular of Adolescence, Jacob Youmans
Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2007
Becoming Missional : Essential Characteristics Necessary in Transitioning the Church to Engage a Postmodern Culture, James R. Armstrong
Igniting a Parent-Church Movement in the Congregations of North America, John C. Bangs
Building an Ethos of Discipleship for Transition in the Twenty-First Century, Greg J. Boulton
Discerning the Covenant Renewal Model, Randy Robert Butler
The Kingdom of God: An Ancient/Future Ontology of Leadership for the Twenty First Century Church, Stephen A. Campbell
E-Learning and the Academy: A New Paradigm for Training Youth Ministry Students, Richard Chromey
Conforming to the Image of Christ: Structuring a Spiritual Growth Paradigm for Churches of the Stone - Campbell Movement, Jerry J. Dean
Recovering Spiritual Direction in the Protestant Tradition, Morris Dirks
Preach to Reach: Seven Characteristics of Effective Evangelistic Preaching, Alan Ehler
Maintaining Spiritual Connectedness Over an Entire Ministry by Elders in the North Georgia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Charles W. Green