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Current Issue

  • Vol 7 No 2: Opportunities and Challenges of Technology in Ministry (Spring 2010)
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Back Issues

  • Vol 7 No 1: Perspectives in Spirituality (Fall 2009)
  • Vol 6 No 2: The Church’s Mission in the World: The Realities of Contextualization (Spring 2009)
  • Vol 6 No 1: Congregations: Moving Toward Transformation (Fall 2008)
  • Vol 5 No 2: Learning as Transformation: Implications for the Church in Mission to the World (Spring 2008)
  • Vol 5 No 1: Generations (Fall 2007)
  • Vol 4 No 2: To Change the World: The Social and Political Impact of the Gospel (Spring 2007)
  • Vol 4 No 1: Issues in Global Mission (Fall 2006)
  • Vol 3 No 2: What Does It Mean to Be Human (Spring 2006)
  • Vol 3 No 1: Theological Education as Mission (Fall 2005)
  • Vol 2 No 2: Theological Education: Developing Leaders for the Church (Spring 2005)
  • Vol 2 No 1: What is the Church? (Fall 2004)
  • Vol 1 No 2: Doing Theology (Spring 2004)
  • Vol 1 No 1: Reconciliation (Fall 2003 - Inaugural Issue)
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Vol 7 No 2 Opportunities and Challenges of Technology in Ministry (Spring 2010)

  • From the Editor
  • Meri MacLeod, Editor
  • Online Learning Communities: The Heart of Online Learning
  • Mark A. Maddix
  • Distance Hybrid Master of Divinity: A Course-Blended Program Developed by Western Theological Seminary
  • Meri MacLeod
  • Learning in Online Community: A Model of Doctorate Level Internet-Enhanced Education
  • Dennis Williams, Mark Simpson, and Jack Cunningham
  • The Amazing Panoply
  • David B. Schock
  • Toward a Theological Understanding of the Religious Significance of Videogames
  • Mark Hayse
  • Tech Etiquette is Just Common Sense
  • Mark Simpson
  • Self Direction: A Critical Tool in Distance Learning
  • Jack Cunningham
  • Ministry in a Digital World: Establishing a Multidimensional Web Presence
  • Mark Simpson

Vol 7 No 1 Perspectives in Spirituality (Fall 2009)

  • From the Editor
  • Paul Bramer, Editor
  • Spiritual Formation and the Meaning of Life
  • Evan B. Howard
  • It Begins with You! How the Spiritual Formation of the Pastor Effects the Spiritual Formation of the Congregation
  • Ruth Haley Barton
  • Adolescent Spiritual Formation: Creating Space for God to Speak
  • Calum Macfarlane
  • Living the Abbey Way: An Experiment in Spiritual Formation and the New Monasticism
  • Jan Bros
  • From Neutrino Worship to Real Transformation
  • Rory Noland
  • Spiritual Formation in Community
  • Jim Wilhoit
  • An Active Approach to Spiritual Formation: Encountering, Experiencing, and Extending God
  • Michele F. Junkin
  • Telling the Old, Old Story: How the Contemporary Church Practices Reading the Old Testament for Faith and Life
  • David Brisben
  • Influencing the Laity's Theologizing for Spiritual Empowerment: An African Perspective
  • Agnes Makau-Olwendo
  • Spiritual Formation: Movements to New Life in the Gospels
  • Fred Guyette

Vol 6 No 2 The Church’s Mission in the World: The Realities of Contextualization (Spring 2009)

  • From the Editor
  • Marlene Enns, Guest Editor
  • The Story of Stadium Village Church: The Journey from China to Ruling Elder
  • Kathleen Macosko
  • A Matter of the Heart
  • Chris Shaw
  • Islamismen in der Bibelübersetzung
  • Johannes Reimer
  • The Contextualization Debate: What About Leadership?
  • Marcus Dean
  • African Theology in Quest for Alternatives to the Hegemony of Western Theology
  • Faustin Ntamushobora
  • Identifying an Asian Theology: A Methodological Quest
  • Moonjang Lee
  • Re-Configuration of Western Theology in Asia
  • Moonjang Lee
  • Contextualization: To Know and Make Known God and Jesus Christ…Through Many Types of Logic
  • Marlene Enns
  • Book Review: The New Paradigm in Ministry
  • Bernard J. O’Connor

Vol 6 No 1 Congregations: Moving Toward Transformation (Fall 2008)

  • From the Editor
  • Joseph Cookston, Guest Editor
  • Trying to Get It Right: Taking Seriously the Church as a People Gathered by God
  • Linda M. Cannell
  • Building a Healthy Congregational Culture in Today’s Postmodern World
  • Peter T. Cha
  • The Transformation of Community and Individual in an Evangelical World
  • Ted Kautzmann
  • Educacion Bancaria vs. una Formacion Integral
  • Robert Kasper
  • Reflections upon Theological Reflection: How One Pastor Processed Ministry
  • Daryl Busby
  • Joining and Belonging: Toward Church Membership as Sharing in Mission
  • Steve Wimmer
  • Equipping Leadership: Preparing God’s People for Personal, Congregational, and Community Transformation
  • Elizabeth A. Wourms
  • Spiritual Disorientation and God’s Guidance
  • John Ackerman
  • Intergenerational Worship
  • Edward D. Seely

Vol 5 No 2 Learning as Transformation (Spring 2008)

  • From the Editor
  • Rhonda McEwan, Guest Editor
  • The Recovery of Transformative Learning
  • Angus M. Gunn
  • Transformative Education and Identity Achievement in the Church
  • Michael K. Severe
  • Perspective Transformation: Application for Mission Curriculum in Churches
  • Mary Mallon Lederleitner
  • Encountering the Other: Mission and Transformation
  • Dan Sheffield
  • Embracing and Embodying Transformative Learning in Global Mission Organizations
  • Dennis Nyamieh Walker
  • Toward an Understanding and Practice of Transformative Learning in Africa
  • Faustin Ntamushobora
  • Doing Theology in a Multicultural Theological Community
  • Peter T. Cha
  • Perspective Transformation in Christian Higher Education at St. Petersburg Christian University
  • Kent L. Eby
  • Understanding and Promoting Life Change Among Evangelical Theological Students in Germany
  • Marie-Claire Weinski
  • La Formación Integral y su Incorporación en la Estructura Curricular de la Educación Teológica
  • Robert Kasper
  • Una Filsofia Ideal Para El Seminario Bautista de la Habana
  • Israel Martin Lemos
  • Qualitative Data Analysis and the Transforming Moment
  • Don Ratcliff

Vol 5 No 1 Generations (Fall 2007)

  • Our Fifth Year of Sharing Common Ground
  • Linda Cannell
  • From the Editors
  • Jim Dekker and Mark Hayse, Guest Editors
  • Integrating Worlds: Youth Ministry in the 21st Century
  • Linda Cannell and Jim Dekker
  • Teaching and Learning Within a Video Game Culture
  • Mark Hayse
  • Beyond the Christian Education Hallway
  • Laura Widstrom-Johnson
  • Lessons Learned in Planning Intergenerational Learning and Family Cluster Experiences
  • Scottie May
  • Stories from Churches About Intergenerational Learning
  • Common Ground Journal
  • Reader Responses to the Common Ground Journal
  • Common Ground Journal

Vol 4 No 2 To Change the World: The Social and Political Impact of the Gospel (Spring 2007)

  • From the Editor
  • Linda M. Cannell, Guest Editor
  • Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission
  • Jenny Collins
  • Becoming a True Cross-Cultural Friend
  • Marcus Dean
  • Spiritual Reformation in Russia: The Roles of Domestic and Foreign Evangelicals
  • Igor Petrov
  • The Road to Urban Mission in the New Global City
  • Randy White
  • God's Way are not Our Ways
  • Charlie Davis

Vol 4 No 1 Issues in Global Mission (Fall 2006)

  • From the Editor
  • Laurie D. Bailey
  • Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission
  • Jenny Collins
  • Becoming a True Cross-Cultural Friend
  • Marcus Dean
  • Spiritual Reformation in Russia: The Roles of Domestic and Foreign Evangelicals
  • Igor Petrov
  • The Road to Urban Mission in the New Global City
  • Randy White
  • God's Way are not Our Ways
  • Charlie Davis

Vol 3 No 2 What Does It Mean to Be Human (Spring 2006)

  • From the Editor
  • Laurie D. Bailey
  • What Does It Mean to Be Human
  • Elaine Becker
  • Polygyny and the African Church
  • Emmanuel Ogunyemi
  • Learning to Be: A Brazilian Case Study in Social Injustice
  • Marcus O. Throup
  • How Theology Should Be Done
  • Edmund Chan

Vol 3 No 1 Theological Education as Mission (Fall 2005)

  • From the Editor
  • Laurie D. Bailey
  • LCC: A Narrative Case Study of a Christian Liberal Arts College as Mission
  • Stephen Dintaman
  • Re-envisioning the Theological Curriculum as if the Missio Dei Mattered
  • J. Andrew Kirk
  • Missiological Challenges in Polish Evangelical Theological Education
  • Wojciech Kowalewski
  • Mission as the Creative Frontier of Theological Development
  • David W. Shenk
  • Theological Libraries in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Katharina Penner
  • Theological Education in Light of Cultural Variations of Reasoning: Some Educational Issues
  • Marlene Enns
  • Toward a Holistic View of Theological Education
  • Einike Pilli
  • Mission, Theological Education, and Ecumenism
  • Simon Oxley

Vol 2 No 2 - Theological Education: Developing Leaders for the Church (Spring 2005)

  • From the Editor
  • Laurie D. Bailey
  • Church Education: Freire Style
  • Burt D. Braunius
  • Double Loop Learning: Developing Critically Reflective Leaders for a Changing World
  • Cynthia Brown
  • Designing a Contextualized Theological Doctorate In and For Africa
  • Richard L. Starcher
  • Developing Leaders by Using Cultural Skills to Maximize Learning
  • George Janvier
  • Cultural Consideration in Contextualized Leadership in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
  • Michael T. Cooper
  • Opportunities for 21st Century Theological Education
  • Linda M. Cannell
  • Toward A New Curriculum for Theological Education
  • Richard A. Cotton

Vol 2 No 1 - What is the Church? (Fall 2004)

  • From the Editor
  • Laurie D. Bailey
  • The Upside Down Church
  • Linda M. Cannell
  • Revitalizing the Small Church: A Spiritual Model
  • Terri Birkett
  • Cultural Influences on the Development of Early Church Structures: Implications for Contextual Ecclesiology
  • Michael T. Cooper
  • Renovating the Pastoral Office
  • Daryl Busby

Vol 1 No 2 - Doing Theology (Spring 2004)

  • From the Editor
  • Laurie D. Bailey
  • Doing Theology
  • Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
  • East and West: A Theological Conversation
  • Parush R. Parushev
  • Continuing the Conversation: Starting Points—Crafting Reconciliation Through Identity
  • Gary Fujino

Vol 1 No 1 — Reconciliation (Fall 2003 - Inaugural Issue)

  • From the Editor
  • Laurie D. Bailey
  • Congregational Healing: Lessons from Africa
  • Karl Dortzbach
  • Transformation in the Borderlands: A Study of Matthew 15:21-28
  • Daniel Shipanni
  • Forgiveness
  • Perry G. Downs
  • Reconciliation: The Prophetic Leadership of African Americans in this Strategic Time
  • Brenda Salter-McNeil