Social, cultural, and religious divisions have impacted the counseling profession in various ways in the recent past. Notably, in 2017 the American Counseling Association (ACA) moved their national conference from Tennessee in response to that state’s legislature passing laws wh…
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Anlun Huang is one of China’s preeminent living Christian composers. The Dallas Morning News praised Huang’s blending of Chinese style with Western compositional strategies, extolling, “East truly meets West in Anlun Huang’s …. extraordinarily demanding score…. It’s a synthesis …
Suicide is a leading cause of death. More people die from suicide than in all of the combined wars, conflicts, and natural disasters across the globe. Suicide is also an issue that few seem willing to discuss. Suicide remains a hidden or taboo topic. Stigma, culture, and theolog…
Christian schools face both opportunity and challenge. The opportunity is to deliver a distinct, Christ-centered, educational experience in today’s culture. The challenge is that after decades of tremendous growth, many evangelical Christian schools face decline and closure due …
Uganda’s AIDS epidemic was amplified by political breakdown and economic collapse during the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, however, Uganda has attracted international attention for producing the most dramatic decline in HIV rates in East Africa. Largely due to the government’s op…
The United States’ church membership, attendance, and affiliations have spiraled downward at an accelerated pace over the past two decades. However, Christians spend much of their time in the marketplace interacting with people from all walks of life. Now is the time for Christi…
Though topics of prayer, forgiveness, and gratitude have received attention in the psychology of religion, there is sparse literature regarding the concept of grace. This study explored how Christians who identify as Friends (Quakers) experience grace from God. Thirty interviews…
Investigating Contemplative Christian Spirituality as Christian Formation through a Process Hermeneutic: an analysis of History, Evolution, and Neuroscience in Christian Meditation argues that a contemplative approach to contemporary Christianity may serve to deepen the formatio…
This study clarifies relationships between the variables of a Christian relationship with God, character virtues humility, gratitude and compassion, and well-being. Data was collected from a large Christian sample and utilized in path analyses of two hypothesized models. One wit…
Educating students in sexual risk avoidance has been a topic of much debate over the past few decades. Studies have shown numerous benefits for adolescents who choose abstinence and various abstinence education programs have been developed for use within school settings. The cho…
This dissertation examines the impact of apologetics on spiritual growth among Grade 12 students at three Lutheran high schools in the Midwest. According to stages of faith development, religious doubts are common as children mature. Intellectual skepticism has been found to be …
In the fifteenth century Iberian societies hotly debated the religious identities of the Jews who accepted Christianity under duress during and after the pogroms of 1391. This study looks at the religious practices of two converts from Ciudad Real as a microcosm of the converso …
Higher education is known for its slow rate of change, but as the 21st century continues institutions of higher education (IHEs) are feeling the pressure to adapt. In addition to the pressures faced by higher education at large, Christian IHEs faces increasing secularization. Th…
This study examined how Christian educational institution leaders’ views of environmental stewardship affected construction and campus decisions. This study included K-12 Christian schools in the United States with membership in Association of Christian Schools International (AC…
My thesis project examines if religiosity is linked to sexism through attitudes toward women. In the United States, 75-78% of adults identify as Christian, and over 90% of adults report belief in a single deity as a higher power (Gallup, 2015). Understanding religious beliefs ma…
This thesis project explores three prominent films developed as part of the Christian independent film industry between 1970 and 2014. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s work in affect theory, I identify how certain films resonated with the U.S. Evangelical subculture during times of cultu…
The problem is Christian school principals, teachers, and parents perceived the implementation of Christian practices by the principal based on the school’s mission statement to achieve an authentic Christian school culture differently. The purpose of this qualitative explorator…
This project addressed a lack of opportunities for Christian vocational discernment at First United Methodist Church in Arkadelphia, Arkansas (FUMCA). The research question asked what effect, if any, the public speech of leaders would have on the vocational self-understanding of…