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Redeeming Pastoral Evaluation: A Comprehensive Approach To Annual Pastoral Evaluation In A Congregation-Led Church, Drake Andrew Caudill

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Surrendering to the biblical mandate and God's call to pastoral ministry produces profound joy. However, pastoral burnout intensifies, and pastors leave the ministry at a staggering rate. Adding to the pressure of pastoral ministry, many churches implement an annual pastoral performance review policy. Imitating secular employment performance reviews, many churches base successful pastoral ministry on numerical metrics, performance goals, and preaching effectiveness. The researcher evaluated various pastoral evaluation forms across different denominations. Additionally, the researcher investigated the biblical theology of pastoral leadership. The action research project aimed to design a comprehensive, intentional, and biblical pastoral evaluation strategy for a congregation-led …

“I’M Not Gonna Be Able To Do This For Much Longer:” Perspectives Of Parochial School Principals On Their Role In Operational Vitality And The Educational Marketplace, Kris Brough

LMU Theses and Dissertations

Catholic schools have confronted a complex array of challenges, including declining enrollments, shifting demographics, and financial strains affecting all stakeholders. Establishing effective leadership has been a persistent practical hurdle, particularly in parish-based schools operating within the local-executive model. This qualitative study delved into the experiences and perspectives of parochial school principals, focusing on their leadership role in operational vitality. Additionally, it examined how these principals navigate the evolving educational landscape and respond to emerging challenges. By gathering and analyzing narratives from principals, the study shed light on issues impacting operational vitality and institutional growth and calls for further exploration within …

The Voice: A Case Study On Parental Perspectives In Empowering Learners With Special Educational Needs Through Performing Arts Education, Suhaila Mohamad

Journal of ICSAR

This case study explores parental perspectives on empowering learners with Special Educational Needs (SEN) through performing arts education. It investigates the advantages of performing arts education for learners with SEN and offers recommendations for improvement. It also focuses on understanding parental views on the role of performing arts education in empowering learners with SEN and the benefits derived from such programs. This case study employs a mixed-methods research design, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches through surveys and interviews. The survey method involves administering structured questionnaires to gather numerical data, while interviews provide in-depth insights into parents' perspectives. Triangulation is employed …

Editorial: Worship Leadership In Action, Hayoung Lim

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for Christians in Higher Education

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Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for Christians in Higher Education

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Hand In Hand, July-August, 2024

Hand in Hand

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Milwaukee, WI

Hand in Hand Finding Aid

The Banner - V. 159, No. 7 - (July 2024), Christian Reformed Church In North America

The Banner

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The Blessed Assembly: Irreplaceable Physical Co-Presence In Worship And Healthy Hybridity Reimagined After The Pandemic In The Digital Age, Yvette, Ying Wai Lau

Doctor of Pastoral Music Projects and Theses

Because of the unprecedented and unexpected force of the pandemic since 2020, most churches around the world have experienced some online worship during the lockdown of their cities or the mandated closure of the church buildings. For many people, online worship seems to be an equivalent, if not better, alternative for gathering together—a physical co-presence in worship—even after the pandemic has ended. As necessary and vital as online worship experiences have been for Christians during the pandemic, the witness of the church from Pentecost throughout Christian history indicates that gathered worship in physical spaces is irreplaceable for faith formation and …

Student Life, Saint Mary's College Of California

Undergraduate Academic Catalog

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2024-2025 Academic Catalog, Saint Mary's College Of California

Undergraduate Academic Catalog

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Around The Center, 1996 July, Advocate Health - Midwest

Historical Documents - Combined

Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Issue of "Around the Center", an employee newsletter. This issue has staffing and departmental updates, patient letters, and a feature on the nursing school at Chicago Union Hospital - the predecessor to IMMC.

The Pause: Impacting Moral Distress In Our Caregivers, An Integrative Review, Bethany Corinne Furman

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Moral distress is endemic to healthcare in the emerging post-covid era. Moral distress is defined as the knowledge of the correct or ethical action but the repeated inability to act in that manner. First studied in nursing, it has been found in nearly every facet of healthcare and is strongly associated with clinician burnout, intent to leave position, and behaviors that can in turn compromise patient safety. Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses experience moral distress at higher rates than other subspecialties. Prevention of and recovery from moral distress is complex, but various forms of debriefing have long been suggested to …

Pastoral Prose And Civic Engagement: Crafting The Call To The Public Square, Christopher Ian Thoma

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This thesis explores the relationship between creative writing techniques employed by pastors and congregational engagement in the public square. The central thesis posits that if pastors incorporate creative writing methods in extended weekly communications with congregants, then the necessary factors for engagement in the public square will be fostered, leading to attitudinal shifts demonstrated by increased congregational interest or participation in civil affairs. Through an extensive literature review, the thesis fairly examines historical and contemporary views of church and state, the Two Kingdoms doctrine, concepts relative to public square participation, Christianity’s waning cultural influence, communication science, developmental theory, literature familiarity, …

Debtor's Declaration In Support Of Petition

Catholic Dioceses in Bankruptcy

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Around The Center, 1989 June, Advocate Health - Midwest

Historical Documents - Combined

Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Issue of "Around the Center", an employee newsletter. This issue has staffing and departmental updates, a patient letter, and features on reversing reimbursement denials and on pesticides.

Gardner-Webb Team Partners With Kudvumisa Foundation In Eswatini/Swaziland, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Kudvumisa means “to praise” in the language of the people in Eswatini/Swaziland. It’s also the name chosen by Kudvumisa Foundation, an organization that provides medical clinics to people in this African county where medical care is lacking and HIV/Aids is prevalent.

An Evaluative Assessment Of Leadership Retreat As A Spiritually Formative Experience For Leaders Of Campus Churches Affiliated With The Churches Of Christ In Ghana, Frank Obeng Essien

DMin Project Theses

This June 2024 Doctor of Ministry project thesis at Lipscomb University examines the Churches of Christ in Ghana are a mission plant. They were planted by two American missionaries, Wendell Broom and Sewell Hall, around 1958. The Churches of Christ in Ghana pursue a theology of ministry which resolves around evangelism, edification, and benevolence. These are often referred to as the “mission of the church.” They represent the holy trinity of activities which was once and for all time delivered to the church in Ghana. Against these, there must be no rival theological focus. Any innovation beyond this risks the …

The Challenge Of Creating A Classroom Culture, Alan Bandstra

Pro Rege

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2024 Hispanic Theological Initiative Book Prize Response, Neomi D. De Anda

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Response to Insurrectionist Wisdoms: Toward a North American Indigenized Pastoral Theology, by Marlene Ferreras.

From Secular Education To Spiritual Enrichment, Stanton Witherspoon

Lake Union Herald

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Contributors

Pastoral Liturgy

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How Does A Mystic Listen? Reimagining Listening Through Karl Rahner’S Notion Of A Mystic In Pope Francis’ Synod On Synodality, Theodbriel Repizo Villariza Jr

Jesuit School of Theology Dissertations

Karl Rahner envisions that devout Christians of the future must be mystics, having a genuine experience of God’s presence in their particular context. This thesis aims to recover the role of mystics in the life of the Church, specifically in Pope Francis' challenge for the Catholic Church to embrace an identity of being a synodal Church. To be a synodal Church necessitates being a listening Church. Rahner promotes a form of mysticism where the pathway to be in union with God is one’s engagement in the world. For him, mystics witness how it is to be receptive to grace, that …

The Impact Of Religion And Spirituality On Continental African Immigrant Health, Samuel A. Ekong

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This research study explores the impact of religious affiliation and spirituality on the acculturation and health outcomes of continental African immigrants in the USA. These immigrants, distinct from the broader African American or Black population, bring unique religious, spiritual, and cultural norms, profoundly influencing their health behaviors and acculturation processes. Unlike the descendants of Africans living outside the continent, referred to as the African diaspora, continental Africans are specifically those born in Africa. This research operationalizes the term 'continental African' to focus on this unique group residing in the USA, aiming to deepen understanding of their specific health needs and …

Formal Versus Informal Supervisor Socio-Emotional Support Behaviours And Employee Trust: The Role Of Cultural Power Distance, Jaee Cho, S. Arzu Wasti, Krishna Savani, Hwee Hoon Tan, Michael W. Morris

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This research investigates how formal versus informal supervisor support behaviours shape employees' affect- and cognition-based trust across cultures of varying power distance. Using data from in-depth interviews, Study 1 found that trust-enhancing supervisor behaviours were more formal, status conscious and imposing in India (a high power distance culture) than in the Netherlands (a low power distance culture); unlike in India, supervisors acted more like friends or equals with their subordinates in the Netherlands. Using vignettes, Study 2 found that, compared to informal support behaviours, formal support behaviours increased both affect- and cognition-based trust among Indian participants, but among US participants, …

Synod And The Arts Inspire Hope And Imagination, Becky Mcintyre, Beth Ford Mcnamee Ed.D., Maureen O'Connell

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

The process of journeying together, spiritual listening, discerning communally, and incorporating community art has kindled hope and imagination for Philadelphia-area university students during the ongoing, three-year global Synod on “Communion, Participation and Mission,” which Pope Francis convened in October of 2021. The SCHEAP leadership team desires to share what we have learned through our hope-filled and creative synodal process so that others may cultivate the protagonism of college students in imagining the future of the Church through synodal practices of spiritual listening, relationship-building, and creative communal discernment.

What Brought Us Together To Form A Community For Scholarship, Carolyn J. Loveridge, Frances Docherty, Sarah Honeychurch, Nathalie Tasler, Linnea Soler, Lindsey Pope, Victoria E. Price, Beth Dickson

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

We are a group of teaching-focused academics who share a passion for learning, teaching and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Higher Education (HE). In order to understand how practitioners from a diversity of backgrounds and disciplines came to be in their present LTS (Learning, Teaching & Scholarship) academic roles, we embarked on a Collaborative Autoethnography (CAE). This approach allowed us to use our personal narratives to explore what it means to be a SoTL practitioner in HE, and to analyse these narratives by using textual analysis.

This paper unpacks these narratives, focusing on three themes: our rich …

Quantitative Analysis Of Challenges Encountered By Uk Widening Participation Medical Students In Comparison With Their Non-Widening Participation Peers, Krishna Chaitanya Ravulapalli, Nicolle M. Arroyave Caicedo, Daniel Zahra, Mahrukh Mirza

Peninsula Medical School

OBJECTIVES Few studies have captured the experiences of widening participation (WP) medical students, and none have compared their experiences to their non-WP peers. This study aims to identify which challenges WP students are more likely to face.METHODS A 22-item questionnaire was distributed to medical students across all UK medical schools. Students were asked yes or no questions on whether they faced challenges in finances, socializing, physical and mental health, academic attainment, and COVID19-related teaching changes.RESULTS One-hundred seventy-six medical students from all year groups across the UK responded, with 97 students from a WP background. WP students were significantly more likely …

Gardner-Webb Remembers Lives Of Fallen Service Members During Memorial Day Observance On May 24, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University faculty and staff, along with members of the community, gathered in front of Hamrick Hall on May 24 to pay tribute to those who have sacrificed their lives serving their country. In his speech, retired U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. John Whitaker shared a personal story to remember his friends who gave their lives on a mission to save others.

Moral Injury In Active Service And Veteran Female Military Combatants, William Curtis Neal

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

A topic of concern and discussion in the mental health community, and maybe a special concern from both governmental and civilian practitioners, is the subject of moral injury. Moral Injury has been widely researched over the last 10 years and is a known and discussed condition that is linked to military personnel and veterans who have experienced events while deployed or operating in adverse conditions such as combat. The following descriptive study focuses on one group from which they have been excluded or overlooked in past studies. This creates a gap in the published literature: female servicewomen and veterans. Both …

God Of The Whole Earth Ministry Church Project: Equipping Church Members To Engage Their Community, Christopher Stevens

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The God of the Whole Earth Ministry (GWEM) Church study investigated how church members can gain confidence to share their faith when properly equipped. Sharing the gospel with others can be a problem for some people. Generally, the lack of skills and knowledge is the biggest problem for some people to share their faith. GWEM Church members were not equipped to share their faith. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to equip participants to share their faith. Skills were taught to help participants develop and use those skills to start meaningful and practical conversations to open up a dialogue …