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Current Issue
- Vol 9 No 2: South East Asian Church Responses to Challenges Faced in the Age of Globalization (Spring 2012)
Back Issues
- Vol 9 No 1: The Missionary Dimension of Christian Education in Brazil (Portuguese Issue - Fall 2011)
- Vol 8 No 2: Non-Formal Education in Central/Eastern Europe (Spring 2011)
- Vol 8 No 1: Multiculturalism and Attention to Issues of Social Ethics in Theological Schools: Implications for the Development of Church Leadership (Fall 2010)
- Vol 7 No 2: Opportunities and Challenges of Technology in Ministry (Spring 2010)
- 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)
Vol 9 No 2 South East Asian Church Responses to Challenges Faced in the Age of Globalization (Spring 2012)
- From the Editor
- Renewing Christian Community Identity and Educational Strategies Through Communities of Practice: Considerations for Singapore Churches
- Building Deep Christians: Mind and Heart in Action
- How Deep Was It? Plumb Lining the Commitment to Integral Mission
- Christian Communitas in the Missio Dei: Living Faithfully in the Tension Between Cultural Osmosis and Alienation
Vol 9 No 1 The Missionary Dimension of Christian Education in Brazil (Portuguese Issue - Fall 2011)
- An Original Language Issue of the Common Ground Journal
- Testemunho Holístico em Uma Sociedade Multicultural e Multireligiosa
- A Presença Missionária na Educação Brasileira–Uma Breve Análise da História
- Em Busca de Uma Pedagogia Integral: Dicotomia e Síntese na Educação Teológica Brasileira
- A Dimensão Missionária da Educação Infantil
- A Missão da Igreja e Educação Cristã Brasileira
- Usando a Literatura em Missão
- Uma Inumação Estupenda. A Missão de Euclides e a Nossa
- A Educação a Distância Desafios e Oportunidades Para a Expansão do Reino de Deus Utilizando-se Desta Ferramenta
Vol 8 No 2 Non-Formal Education in Central/Eastern Europe (Spring 2011)
- From the Editors
- School Without Walls and the Local Church: A Model of Informal Leadership Training in Post-Soviet Countries
- My Experience in Discipleship-Making
- Non-Formal Education as a Tool for Church Planting in Latvia
- Non-Formal Education with a Movement in Mind
- Non-Formal Education as a Tool to Equip and Develop a Team
- School Without Walls in Central Asia
- Moving from an Expert-Oriented Pedagogy to an Object-Oriented Learning Strategy: Teaching Biblical Truth in a Post-Communist Eastern European Context
Vol 8 No 1 Multiculturalism and Attention to Issues of Social Ethics in Theological Schools: Implications for the Development of Church Leadership (Fall 2010)
- From the Editor
- Trusting Strangers as Neighbors? Overcoming Challenges to Reconciliation
- Differences in Power Distances May Make Harmony on a Multicultural Team More Challenging
- Prophetic Voices and Evangelical Seminary Education
- Urban Theological Education at Seattle Pacific University: Encountering Neighbors and Race in Seattle
- Evangelical Identity Meets New Opportunities in Education
Vol 7 No 2 Opportunities and Challenges of Technology in Ministry (Spring 2010)
- From the Editor
- Online Learning Communities: The Heart of Online Learning
- Distance Hybrid Master of Divinity: A Course-Blended Program Developed by Western Theological Seminary
- Learning in Online Community: A Model of Doctorate Level Internet-Enhanced Education
- The Amazing Panoply
- Toward a Theological Understanding of the Religious Significance of Videogames
- Tech Etiquette is Just Common Sense
- Self Direction: A Critical Tool in Distance Learning
- Ministry in a Digital World: Establishing a Multidimensional Web Presence
Vol 7 No 1 Perspectives in Spirituality (Fall 2009)
- From the Editor
- Spiritual Formation and the Meaning of Life
- It Begins with You! How the Spiritual Formation of the Pastor Effects the Spiritual Formation of the Congregation
- Adolescent Spiritual Formation: Creating Space for God to Speak
- Living the Abbey Way: An Experiment in Spiritual Formation and the New Monasticism
- From Neutrino Worship to Real Transformation
- Spiritual Formation in Community
- An Active Approach to Spiritual Formation: Encountering, Experiencing, and Extending God
- Telling the Old, Old Story: How the Contemporary Church Practices Reading the Old Testament for Faith and Life
- Influencing the Laity's Theologizing for Spiritual Empowerment: An African Perspective
- Spiritual Formation: Movements to New Life in the Gospels
Vol 6 No 2 The Church’s Mission in the World: The Realities of Contextualization (Spring 2009)
- From the Editor
- The Story of Stadium Village Church: The Journey from China to Ruling Elder
- A Matter of the Heart
- Islamismen in der Bibelübersetzung
- The Contextualization Debate: What About Leadership?
- African Theology in Quest for Alternatives to the Hegemony of Western Theology
- Identifying an Asian Theology: A Methodological Quest
- Re-Configuration of Western Theology in Asia
- Contextualization: To Know and Make Known God and Jesus Christ…Through Many Types of Logic
- Book Review: The New Paradigm in Ministry
Vol 6 No 1 Congregations: Moving Toward Transformation (Fall 2008)
- From the Editor
- Trying to Get It Right: Taking Seriously the Church as a People Gathered by God
- Building a Healthy Congregational Culture in Today’s Postmodern World
- The Transformation of Community and Individual in an Evangelical World
- Educacion Bancaria vs. una Formacion Integral
- Reflections upon Theological Reflection: How One Pastor Processed Ministry
- Joining and Belonging: Toward Church Membership as Sharing in Mission
- Equipping Leadership: Preparing God’s People for Personal, Congregational, and Community Transformation
- Spiritual Disorientation and God’s Guidance
- Intergenerational Worship
Vol 5 No 2 Learning as Transformation (Spring 2008)
- From the Editor
- The Recovery of Transformative Learning
- Transformative Education and Identity Achievement in the Church
- Perspective Transformation: Application for Mission Curriculum in Churches
- Encountering the Other: Mission and Transformation
- Embracing and Embodying Transformative Learning in Global Mission Organizations
- Toward an Understanding and Practice of Transformative Learning in Africa
- Doing Theology in a Multicultural Theological Community
- Perspective Transformation in Christian Higher Education at St. Petersburg Christian University
- Understanding and Promoting Life Change Among Evangelical Theological Students in Germany
- La Formación Integral y su Incorporación en la Estructura Curricular de la Educación Teológica
- Una Filsofia Ideal Para El Seminario Bautista de la Habana
- Qualitative Data Analysis and the Transforming Moment
Vol 5 No 1 Generations (Fall 2007)
- Our Fifth Year of Sharing Common Ground
- From the Editors
- Integrating Worlds: Youth Ministry in the 21st Century
- Teaching and Learning Within a Video Game Culture
- Beyond the Christian Education Hallway
- Lessons Learned in Planning Intergenerational Learning and Family Cluster Experiences
- Stories from Churches About Intergenerational Learning
- Reader Responses to the Common Ground Journal
Vol 4 No 2 To Change the World: The Social and Political Impact of the Gospel (Spring 2007)
- From the Editor
- Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission
- Becoming a True Cross-Cultural Friend
- Spiritual Reformation in Russia: The Roles of Domestic and Foreign Evangelicals
- The Road to Urban Mission in the New Global City
- God's Way are not Our Ways
Vol 4 No 1 Issues in Global Mission (Fall 2006)
- From the Editor
- Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission
- Becoming a True Cross-Cultural Friend
- Spiritual Reformation in Russia: The Roles of Domestic and Foreign Evangelicals
- The Road to Urban Mission in the New Global City
- God's Way are not Our Ways
Vol 3 No 2 What Does It Mean to Be Human (Spring 2006)
- From the Editor
- What Does It Mean to Be Human
- Polygyny and the African Church
- Learning to Be: A Brazilian Case Study in Social Injustice
- How Theology Should Be Done
Vol 3 No 1 Theological Education as Mission (Fall 2005)
- From the Editor
- LCC: A Narrative Case Study of a Christian Liberal Arts College as Mission
- Re-envisioning the Theological Curriculum as if the Missio Dei Mattered
- Missiological Challenges in Polish Evangelical Theological Education
- Mission as the Creative Frontier of Theological Development
- Theological Libraries in Central and Eastern Europe
- Theological Education in Light of Cultural Variations of Reasoning: Some Educational Issues
- Toward a Holistic View of Theological Education
- Mission, Theological Education, and Ecumenism
Vol 2 No 2 - Theological Education: Developing Leaders for the Church (Spring 2005)
- From the Editor
- Church Education: Freire Style
- Double Loop Learning: Developing Critically Reflective Leaders for a Changing World
- Designing a Contextualized Theological Doctorate In and For Africa
- Developing Leaders by Using Cultural Skills to Maximize Learning
- Cultural Consideration in Contextualized Leadership in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
- Opportunities for 21st Century Theological Education
- Toward A New Curriculum for Theological Education
Vol 2 No 1 - What is the Church? (Fall 2004)
- From the Editor
- The Upside Down Church
- Revitalizing the Small Church: A Spiritual Model
- Cultural Influences on the Development of Early Church Structures: Implications for Contextual Ecclesiology
- Renovating the Pastoral Office
Vol 1 No 2 - Doing Theology (Spring 2004)
- From the Editor
- Doing Theology
- East and West: A Theological Conversation
- Continuing the Conversation: Starting Points—Crafting Reconciliation Through Identity
Vol 1 No 1 — Reconciliation (Fall 2003 - Inaugural Issue)
- From the Editor
- Congregational Healing: Lessons from Africa
- Transformation in the Borderlands: A Study of Matthew 15:21-28
- Forgiveness
- Reconciliation: The Prophetic Leadership of African Americans in this Strategic Time