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Didache: Faithful Teaching. (June 2008) While a journal dedicated to a larger Wesleyan audience, this edition serves as a means for saying “thank you” to several important contributors to theological...

“What John 3:16 is to the unbeliever, Romans 15:7 is to the believer,” affirms Duane Elmer in his book, Cross Cultural Connections (2002, p.) Many of us memorized John 3:16 in the formative years of...

Perhaps it is a sign I’m growing older, but lately I have had a growing interest in my ancestry and have been exploring some of the genealogical records of past generations of Benefiels. This, of...

The International Course of Study Advisory Committee [1] of the Church of the Nazarene (ICOSAC) has been involved for over six years in fulfilling its Manual mandated task of validating curricula used...

Wesleyan ministers and counselors who deal with congregational leadership often discover an interesting observation when reviewing the history of their own founder, John Wesley. When surveying the...

This paper will focus on the nature of justice presented in Luke 4:18-19 and Isaiah 58:6- 7; 61:1-2. These texts provide a unity between the Old and New Testaments inviting us to see the under flowing...

This paper addresses the need for dialogue within the Church of the Nazarene concerning the issue of justice and the related mission of the church. I argue with Daniel Bell that justice conceived of...

Sophocles’ 5th century BCE epic of Oedipus, and the construct of Greek tragedy as a whole, has recently become the object of philosophical and theo-politcal examination, particularly as it relates to...

As the Church of the Nazarene grows dynamically in so many parts of today’s world, God matches this growth with the activity of the Holy Spirit in calling persons to ministry. The Spirit of God...

Didache: Faithful Teaching edition 9:2 (January 2010), which brings a broad array of research, reflection, and insights from diverse institutions and historical settings, all addressing the wide...

The concept of short-term missions remains a phenomenon which offers fruitful exploration as a kind of Christian pilgrimage. Diverse bodies of literature demonstrate that those who travel with a...

This essay looks briefly at teaching about communication and faith in a general sense, and then turns to some specifics about communication in another language, across cultures, suggesting motives...

Our proclamation as the Church of Jesus Christ is that the world was created in an original harmony. This harmony was centered in the fact that the creation, particularly the image God that is...

It is natural that Christians would have a desire to be a part of God’s redemptive activity in the world and it is a sign of good health when a church is finding ways to use a variety of resources to...

John Wesley’s life and ministry transformed 18th century England. His proclamation of the gospel of freedom from sin and social liberation revolutionized society. The Methodist movement was marked by...

Emerging evidence in both the scientific and medical literature seems to indicate that several addictive behaviors some Wesleyans traditionally have recognized as sinful may be linked to mutations in...

In an ad dress to the 1982 Ox ford In sti tute of Meth od ist Theo log i cal Stud ies, Al bert C. Outler out lined an agenda for what he called “Phase III” of Wes ley Stud ies, pro pos ing a slo gan...

Postmodernists reject truth. At least that’s what many Christians think. Type “Christian,” “truth,” and “postmodern” into an Internet search engine, and you’ll find plenty of Christian apologists...

The book is organized into an introduction and six chapters followed by endnotes and a useful bibliography. In the introduction Brower begins by describing the contemporary state of the ecclesial...

Deirdre Brower Latz I think that I stumbled into practical theology. I am called to be a pastor, but love teaching, and when the opportunity presented itself to me to teach, I took it. Initially I was...

Rev. Marcos Canales Pastoral ministry contributes immensely to the ongoing dialogue of ecclesiology and missiology. I consider it extremely important to regard pastoral ministry as the crossroads...

Juan Fernandez I believe that as times continue to get tougher around the world, Christians will be forced to deal with tough questions about their faith. Lukewarm Christians will be pushed toward a...

Dr. David M. Phillips I am convinced that there has never been a time when having an educated clergy is more important. We are living in a day when many people are entering the ministry as a second...

Padu Meshramkar I would like to answer this first from my perspective as a teacher. I never wanted to be in the full time ministry. I had felt that (ministry) should be some thing anyone should always...

Mark Quanstrom It was not my idea. I was called to preach and I knew that that particular vocation demanded continued study. After Seminary, I assumed the pastorate of Belleville First Church of the...