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Understanding Growth: The Roles of Evangelism and a Church's Identity in Determining whether Newcomers are Invited to Belong
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The admission of children to communion on baptism without confirmation introduced a debate about how to define membership in the Anglican Church of Canada. Declining membership raised concerns around attracting new members. Using a Grounded Theory approach the researcher interviewed individuals...
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To Be Redemptorist: The Emerging Vocation of the Lay Missionary of the Most Holy Redeemer Within the Redemptorist Family
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“Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer (LMMHR) are those lay people engaged in the closest form of partnership in mission with Redemptorists. The category of LMMHR was created by the 1991 General Chapter of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. My dissertation addresses the question,...
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Fall 2018
This study investigates the ways in which Indonesian gay male Christians in partnership (IGMCPs) make sense of their spiritual lives and develop their lived religion when they try to form and maintain a committed same-sex relationship in a church and a society that disapprove of that...
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The Journey for Authentic Relationship: Exploring the Decision to Self-Disclose Sexual Orientation
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Through hermeneutic phenomenology, I explore my experience of self-disclosing my sexual orientation to a group of Clinical Pastoral Education students during initial phases of the supervisor-teacher relationship. My purpose or intent was to come to a clearer and deeper understanding of the...
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The Importance of Spirituality in the Lives of Adults with Disabilities (AWDs) and How Church and Pastors Can Improve Their Ministries To Meet These Spiritual Needs
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Spirituality is an integral part of the lives of Adults with Disabilities (AWDs). Sadly, a very few literature have revealed the relationship between the spirituality of AWDs, their quality of life, and general wellbeing. This research focuses on the gaps that exist in knowledge about how AWDs...
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2014
This practical theology dissertation is grounded in palliative care practice, comprising an introduction, six articles, and implications. The main research question is: What is the spiritual experience of dying? Each article integrates the contemplative theology/spirituality of the Dark Night of...
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2022
As churches and other ministries struggle with financial shortfalls due to COVID-19 and other socio-religious reasons, many church leaders are anxious about becoming under-resourced. Funding is quickly becoming an urgent challenge, and many churches and ministries are either restructuring to...
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2023
This dissertation seeks to respond to the question of whether the framework for soul care for elders living with dementia is necessary in healthcare. It proposes that Edith Stein’s (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, 1891-1942) philosophy of anthropology and her Carmelite apophatic spirituality...
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Fall 2019
The principal objective of this dissertation, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Doctor of Ministry degree at St. Stephen’s College, was to explore the concept of spiritually informed art therapy as it was experienced by the author while studying, working, and teaching in the...
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Fall 2019
The phenomenon of “not being listened to” is a universal experience, but particularly poignant for women with the lived experience of incarceration. These women’s voices, educator Max van Manen’s most recent (2014) phenomenology text, along with my discipline and practice of spiritual direction...