Boundary Leadership: a Video-Based Small Group Curriculum
BOUNDARY LEADERSHIP AT EMORY The past three years of course work and research in the Emory University community have deeply shaped my view of how community is formed and how Continue Reading
Maker Infused Worship for the 21st Century Church
Maker-Infused Worship for the 21 st Century Church Jenny Shultz-Thomas April 14, 2023 Research Project Context This project investigates how maker culture can inspire church vitality post-COVID. The context for Continue Reading
Dealing with Difficult Texts: Teaching Korean Christians How to Be Engaged in Difficult Texts
Texts of Terror When I was a teenager, one of my classmates who is a peace-loving Buddhist asked me a question in school, “Why is a Christian hymn so violent?” Continue Reading
Spiritual Fitness
Spiritual Fitness in the Military Spiritual fitness is an important part of the overall fitness of a warrior. It gives the warfighter the strength to persevere in battle and the Continue Reading
Angels on the Radar? The Bible and Paranormal Parallels
The Bible in a Secular World In his 1916 address “The Strange New World Within the Bible,” Karl Barth asked the question, “What sort of country is spread before our Continue Reading
The Racial Wealth Gap and the Black Church
The Problem According to the Brookings Institution and other sources, the wealth of the average African American is ten times less than the wealth of the average white American [1]. Continue Reading
Engaging Embodied Lament Following the COVID-19 Pandemic
Life, as we knew it, had come to a complete halt. On March 15, 2020 the world came to a standstill as the COVID-19 virus caused life to stop Continue Reading
The Perceived Ethos and its Effect on Rhetoric and Relationship
In 1958, a pastor preached these words to their congregation, “A human being is essentially a creature who necessarily and forever believes in something. The only cure in this world Continue Reading
Protected: The Racial Healing Framework: 6 Callings for Systemic Change
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Justification and Justice: Lutheran Proclamation in Divisive Times
Crux sola est nostra theologia. “The cross alone is our theology.”[1] So said Martin Luther during the early years of the Reformation. The cross, which for Luther is shorthand for Continue Reading
Pastoring to Families Undergoing Fertility Treatment
From the stories of the earliest church, we’ve told ourselves that breadth and depth of the human experience is welcome, our big feelings, our powerful experiences, the fullness of our Continue Reading