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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...

This dissertation presents a close study of the Didache, Church Order Literature, and early church worship liturgies. This research suggests these early documents preserved a means for spiritual...

What has caused small Churches of the Nazarene on the Southwest Oklahoma District to decline in Sunday morning attendance and be in jeopardy of being closed? A 2023 district report shows that seventy...

Childhood traumatic experiences hinder spiritual formation. The current alarming increase of trauma in the lives of children necessitates that pastors and lay youth leaders become educated about...

This dissertation presents a close study of the Didache, Church Order Literature, and early church worship liturgies. This research suggests these early documents preserved a means for spiritual...

El tema de este estudio surge de más de cuatro décadas de ministerio dentro de la Iglesia del Nazareno dedicadas a la formación y desarrollo de líderes y pastores, mayormente en América Latina, que...

This research focuses on women in Christian ministry in the U.S. Latinx communities in The Church of the Nazarene. Through the light of Mujerista Theology, it examines the role and contribution of...

Grief is an inevitable reality, and all people will experience grief at some point in their life. Pastors are among those who first respond at the time of a death and are often invited to journey with...

The modern church is facing a crisis of people who do not know how to grow spiritually. Congregants feel their church is not preparing them to grow in their own spiritual life. The Enneagram, with its...

The Restoration Movement (RM), seeking to unify Protestantism through clear patterns of biblical teachings, instead resulted in further divisions caused by differing ways the “clear” teachings were...

The Free Church tradition suffers from a disconnect between theology and practice which allows consumer culture to infiltrate the church. Consumerism often manifests itself through objectification...

This research presents a study of Street Pastors in the United Kingdom (UK). Street Pastors are Christian volunteers who look after vulnerable people in the night-time economy, providing them security...

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...

Contemporary American society has developed a culture of intensive mothering, which has continued to grow in recent years. This results in women whose primary identity is motherhood and a culture that...

This project was developed to assist the South Weymouth Church of the Nazarene, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to embody a congregational approach to ministry that nurtures adolescents into a lifelong...

The Church of the Nazarene is an international denomination. Yet, in the United States, the church is mono-ethnic, mainly in membership and mindset. The influence and practice of racism throughout...

The Church of the Nazarene is facing challenges in supplying its rural churches with pastoral leadership. The decline in population and limited access to resources contribute to the lack of interest...

This research analyzes the exodus of millennials and Gen Z from the evangelical church in order to strengthen outreach and discipleship to these generations at CrossRoads Community Church of the...