Confirming Christian Confidels: Faith Formation in a Pluralistic World reports on the requisite church change project for Hartford Seminary's Doctor of Ministry degree. The paper explores whether teaching with the "Abrahamic lens" and "deep religious pluralism" promotes coexiste…
The culture of India, one of the richest civilizations in the world, possesses an extensive system of music that is spiritual in its origin, development, and preservation. However, it is observed that Christians in India have not adequately explored this noble and powerful art f…
The purpose of this quantitative research study was to determine the efficacy, if any, of altar calls as a form of a public evangelistic invitation. Since there is no scriptural command with regard to the practice, the literature prior to this study relied solely on opinion, con…
Recent data regarding the faith of young adults in America continues to reveal that young people are disaffiliating from the Church at faster rates and in greater numbers. In light of this, the Church has consistently called for a New Evangelization, beginning with Pope Saint Jo…
Recent data regarding the faith of young adults in America continues to reveal that young people are disaffiliating from the Church at faster rates and in greater numbers. In light of this, the Church has consistently called for a New Evangelization, beginning with Pope Saint Jo…
While the mission statements of Catholic schools include strong language on faith formation, Catholic schools are more often identified with high-quality academics and less for the development of faith. A qualitative descriptive study, framed by Groome (1980, 1991) and Fowler (1…
Catholic schools have a task of forming the religious faith of their students. This responsibility is over and above achieving academic excellence in the courses that Catholic schools offer that are similar to the courses of public schools. This faith component separates the Cat…
The issues that this research addressed were the changes related to engagement in religious education (RE) in the Unitarian Universalist (UU) church in the past several decades. To address this problem, the purpose of this research was to innovatively problem-solve with other re…
As non-Catholic teachers are being hired into Catholic high schools, they are inducted into the school mission that participates in the Catholic Church’s mission for evangelization. The research on the non-Catholic teachers’ perspectives and experiences of this mission formation…