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Worship and World: Forming the Church for Faithful Mission

  • Jason Veach

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...

  • Academic (Thesis, Dissertation, Etc.)
  • English
  • Nazarene Theological Seminary
  • WHDL

Presence-Centered Spirituality: Living With Resonance in the Secular Age

  • Michael David King

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...

  • Academic (Thesis, Dissertation, Etc.)
  • English
  • Nazarene Theological Seminary
  • WHDL

Where Urban and Rural Collide: A Missional Ecclesiology for Exurbia

  • Brian S. Remsch

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...

  • Academic (Thesis, Dissertation, Etc.)
  • English
  • Nazarene Theological Seminary
  • WHDL

Shared Wisdom: A Guide for Mentoring Young Adults

  • Dana Preusch

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...

  • Academic (Thesis, Dissertation, Etc.)
  • English
  • Nazarene Theological Seminary
  • WHDL

A Christian Response to Imprisonment in the Wesleyan Tradition

  • Esther Fairbanks

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...

  • Academic (Thesis, Dissertation, Etc.)
  • English
  • WHDL
  • Nazarene Theological Seminary

Volunteerism is Missions

  • Howard Culbertson

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...

  • Unpublished Text
  • English
  • Didache
  • Nazarene Theological Seminary
  • WHDL

Is it Worth It?

  • Jeff Bolster

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...

  • Unpublished Text
  • English
  • Didache
  • Nazarene Theological Seminary
  • WHDL

Refractive Errors and Hope of Proper Treatment

  • Joe Noonen

Short-term missions and the behaviors of participants on short-term mission teams have been and continue to be the subject of scrutiny from many and varied perspectives. This paper represents a...

  • Unpublished Text
  • English
  • Didache
  • Nazarene Theological Seminary
  • WHDL

Mission Faithfulness Requires Short-term Missionaries

  • John W. Hall, Jr.

My goal is simply to discuss how the boom of short-term mission programs around the world relates to commonly held mission perspectives. Moreover, how the church can best respond to both the Word and...

  • Unpublished Text
  • English
  • Didache
  • Nazarene Theological Seminary
  • WHDL

The Changing Role of Missionaries in a Flat World

  • Ágatha Heap

Even though one of the main points of this paper is that training is crucial for the success of Christian missions, it cannot be seen as an isolated item. It requires vision, support, investment and...

  • Unpublished Text
  • English
  • Didache
  • Nazarene Theological Seminary
  • WHDL

The World is Flat- or is it?

  • Charles Gailey

Global interconnectedness definitely characterizes the third millennium. This has tremendous importance for Christian mission. Global “togetherness” is being fed by a number of factors: • The...

  • Unpublished Text
  • English
  • Didache
  • Nazarene Theological Seminary
  • WHDL