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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...

Approximately forty-five to seventy-five percent of CoTN congregations in the USA/Canada region need contextual educational changes. Why? Many ministry leaders serve in nontraditional roles or as BIVO...

The problem of difference continues to pose a significant challenge within Western society at large and to the local church in particular. With steady population growth through immigration, fear and...

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...

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 dissertation is an exercise in practical theology, which investigates and responds to the problem of changing holiness identity in the Church of the Nazarene. The first part of the study is an...

There are four species within the genus Tapirus: Tapirus bairdii (Baird’s tapir), Tapirus indicus (Malayan tapir), Tapirus terrestris (Brazilian tapir), and Tapirus pinchaque (Mountain tapir). Tapirs...

In this paper, I will explore some of the theological responses of the Jewish community to competing religions in the years following exile. In particular I propose to focus upon those ideas found in...

After the fall of Rome, how did the work and words of the ancient Greek philosophers make their way, textually and intellectually, into later European thought? There were two primary and obvious paths...

A swarm of the δ-proteobacterium Myxococcus xanthus is a distributed system; a population of superposable automata whose distribution is transparent so that it appears as one machine. These swarms...

This poster was displayed at the MidAmerica Nazarene University Faculty Exhibition, 2013.