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Transformative Teaching: Enhancing Spiritual Growth In The I'M A Part Church Through Prison Ministry Program Insights, Arlen K. Parham Apr 2025

Transformative Teaching: Enhancing Spiritual Growth In The I'M A Part Church Through Prison Ministry Program Insights, Arlen K. Parham

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The research project strived to equip the leadership of small churches with the tools to improve spiritual maturity among church members by utilizing a holistic, evidence-based curriculum developed with transformative teaching from prison ministry insights. The goal is to bring an evidence-based prison curriculum from a correctional setting and implement it in a church setting to improve spiritual maturity. The congregants of the I’m A Part Church agreed to be a test model. The curriculum will advance the church’s mission to invest in others by creating a vetted transformative teaching program. The addition of the transformative teaching curriculum is geared …


Spouses’ Scriptural Beliefs, The Faithfulness Of Relationship With God, And Marital Satisfaction, Cristina Sanda Emrich Jul 2022

Spouses’ Scriptural Beliefs, The Faithfulness Of Relationship With God, And Marital Satisfaction, Cristina Sanda Emrich

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

A substantial body of research attests to religion's prominent influence on marital relationship quality. Aspects of religiosity that appear to enhance the quality of marital relationships include couples’ religious homogamy, prayer, religious involvement, spouses’ virtues, and sanctification of marriage. The couples reported studying the Scriptures to be beneficial in coping with life challenges and playing an important role in spouses’ conflict resolution. This study examines the association between marital satisfaction and biblical principles related to constructs such as forgiveness and commitment. It is assumed that relational virtues become relevant for marital quality as scriptural beliefs required by God. Spouses forgive …


Vasco Da Gama’S Voyages To India: Messianism, Mercantilism, And Sacred Exploits, S. M. Ghazanfar Dec 2018

Vasco Da Gama’S Voyages To India: Messianism, Mercantilism, And Sacred Exploits, S. M. Ghazanfar

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

The Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama (1460-1524), was the first European to sail from Portugal to India. Accolades for this achievement have long obscured the messianic motivation for the 1498 voyage, “to invade, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens (Muslims) and pagans and other enemies of Christ; to reduce them to perpetual slavery; to convert them to Christianity; [and] to acquire great wealth by force of arms from the Infidels,” as sanctified by various Papal Bulls, together called “the Doctrine of Discovery” (Dum Diversas, 1452; Romanus Pontifex, 1455; Inter Caetera, 1493). The other key motive in …


Where Have All The Young Adults Gone?, Pivot Nw Research Dec 2017

Where Have All The Young Adults Gone?, Pivot Nw Research

Blog

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Church Differentiators, Pivot Nw Research Dec 2017

Church Differentiators, Pivot Nw Research

Blog

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The Faithful Flyer, 10-03-2010, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry Oct 2010

The Faithful Flyer, 10-03-2010, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

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Hollins Columns (1970 Dec 8), Hollins College Dec 1970

Hollins Columns (1970 Dec 8), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

  • Hollins acquires new computer to supplement college program
  • Logan criticizes academic state
  • Ac Leg studies short term credit, general intellectual environment
  • Columns names editor
  • Security
  • Sex
  • RLA sponsors many programs of involvement for community
  • Faculty sale to aid TRUST
  • Hollins Abroaders anticipate January departure
  • TRUST group manages problems of drugs, youth, finances, family
  • Several seniors plan December graduation
  • Choir program opens holidays
  • Class enacts Buddhist rites
  • New facilities aid musicians
  • Political simulation resembles American electoral processes
  • Speakers aid studies
  • Honors seminar allows freedom in major field
  • Text studies birth control