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All Christians have a responsibility to care for each other. However, the practices of care in the church have become centered around the clergy. This not only fails to empower the lay members of a...

Many Christian congregants are not being adequately formed and shaped as disciples of Christ, because many contemporary churches have a distorted philosophical anthropology, and therefore approach...

The telos of every Christian faith community is to develop faithful followers of Jesus Christ that emulate the character of Christ and impact their communities and the world. Congregations must...

The San Gabriel Valley is the largest majority Latinx and Asian region in the United States, and it is faced with the challenge of ever-increasing socioeconomic disparity. This has created an urban...

Emerging adults are leaving the church shortly after high school graduation. They no longer see the church as relevant and so they do not stay engaged. Older generations fear that as the church...

How might an understanding of shame inform our communal and formative spiritual practices in the church? The conceptional framework is a work in practical theology that begins with an autoethnographic...

The United States has been experiencing decline in traditional expressions of church for some time. Current research indicates that people seeking spirituality and community do so outside of the...

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...

Because of the many roles and demands placed upon clergy, burnout is not uncommon in ministry. Often these symptoms manifest through depression, anxiety, stress, relational conflicts, marital...

The contemporary church is struggling to connect biblical hope with the opportunities to address socio-economic inequity toward community revitalization and holistic healing. Many churches within the...

As the addiction treatment field developed in the United States, it did not integrate a professional discipline of spiritual care. Consequently, disparities in both the definition and availability of...

The European Nazarene College 2022 Faculty Development component during the annual Faculty Assembly centered on the theme, “Nurturing Leadership Character.” The presentation was shared in three...

Welcome to the 22nd edition of Didache: Faithful Teaching. This special edition marks the beginning of a new journey toward our Global Theology Conference, “In the Power of the Spirit” (Luke 4:14), to...

Recent publications in pneumatology raise several issues often neglected in the past but now slowly making their way into Biblical scholarship. Previous writings focused upon the interpretation of the...

However, when discussing the term “power of the Spirit” within Pentecostalisms, there are very diverse perspectives that have outlined and shaped the current practices of Christian churches in South...

"What does it mean to be a Holy People who are empowered by the Holy Spirit? The seemingly contradictory title of this paper gives clues to my answer. Stated plainly, I will argue that a Holy People...

I would like to put forward four plausible axiomatic statements that seek to repair and reset a new “plausibility structure” to help make meaning and maintain focus on purpose and mission. These...

I would like to briefly articulate, in broad strokes, the view of a new creation eschatology and conclude with why it fits well within a Wesleyan theological perspective. In articulating the new...

To speak of the hope of a new creation is to be willing to break paradigms, to move to the future while moving back to the beginning-genesis without pretending to go back to fundamentalisms. To speak...

Districts and schools are not looking at the data on racial judgments, segregation, and neighborhood quality, along with children’s friendship choices, open-mindedness, and social emotional factors to...

This study explored the influence of the evolution of post-secondary educational delivery modes on the preparation of ministers in the Church of the Nazarene. The purpose of this study was to examine...

This study assesses the effectiveness of music as a teaching tool for science classrooms. Average test scores across three assessments were compared in two sixth grade classrooms to determine if...

This study analyzes the impact of hydropathy on high- and low-risk serotypes of Human Papillomavirus (HPV). A review and categorization of HPV serotypes was performed alongside an investigation of...

A population genetic study of brittle stars was conducted in the Gulf of Mexico to study patterns of gene flow and population structure. Mitochondrial DNA from 85 samples was extracted, amplified, and...