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Mental Illness and Belonging: A Pastor's Inquiry
(2014-01-20)This project consists of qualitative research and analysis that started with the following question: What, from the perspective of people with mental illness makes a church feel welcoming and safe or otherwise? The primary ... -
Holding the Place of Christ: Leadership in the Divine Household
(2014-01-20)The thesis of this paper is that the Benedictine monastic tradition provides an effective foundation for leadership in the parish church. The Rule of Benedict provides a sturdy template for the organization and functioning ... -
The Holy Spirit in the Ontogeny of the Body of Christ
(2014-01-20)This is a proposal to enrich a tried-and-true spiritual gifts workshop typically offered by Episcopal parish clergy for discerning New Testament spiritual gifts that may be seeking expression in parishioners' lives. They ... -
Making Meaning of Sexual Violence Against Women in Ancient Christian Sacred Literature
(2014-01-20)Sexual violence against women appears in many genres of literature sacred to ancient Christianity, from foundational myths in Genesis through apocalyptic symbolism in the Revelation, and on into the martyr stories used ... -
The Colonial Church and its Legacy and Impact on Colonial Dioceses, Focusing on the Diocese of Southern Virginia: A Family Systems Perspective
(2014-01-20)Edwin Friedman writes, “I have been struck by how families, corporations, [churches, synagogues] and other kinds of institutions are constantly trying to cure their own ills through amputations . As a priest ordained in ... -
God's Wanderers: Christ Among the Poor and Homeless, with Case Studies in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Baltimore, Maryland
(University of the South, 2011-05-01)Poverty is a long-standing issue that has existed since ancient biblical times. Our current culture of economic uncertainties and failures has affected millions of people worldwide, and hundreds of thousands of Americans, ... -
An Educational Program in Bowen Family Systems Theory for the Parish
(University of the South, 2011-05-01)Bowen Family Systems Theory, developed by Murray Bowen, posits the emotional system (family), rather than the individual, as the basic unit of human behavior. Envisioning the individual not as a discrete unit but as a part ... -
Observations of a Pastoral Psychotherapist on Discipleship
(2014-01-20)This examination of the Gospel of Luke, the Gospel of Thomas, and the oral traditions of ancient desert Christianity, helps us rediscover thinking and approaches to becoming authentically human that are simultaneously ... -
A Survey of the Work of the General Convention and the Lambeth Conference Considering a Theology for Interfaith Dialogue
(2014-01-20)A review of the historic work of the Lambeth Conference and the General Convention of the Episcopal Church clearly demonstrates that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries interfaith interaction was evangelistically ... -
Preaching in the Digital Era: Options, Choices, and Methods of Feedback
(2014-01-20)In an era of rapidly changing and expanding media options, the way we communicate in the United States is going through. Meanwhile, in the midst of this digital age preaching remains largely an exclusively oral medium. ...
