Dissertations / Project Portfolios from 2013
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
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