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Imaginative preaching: Preaching as more than just words	For all generations: The experience and expression of intergenerational worship

Emerging churches leading with empathy. From people needs to God's mission at RETROchurch: Relate, Experience, Transmit, Respond, and Oxygenate, including a "Hope in Film" video experience for small groups	EPIC worship for the Salvation Army Korean Community Church in London, United Kingdom

Building the church together: The role of the assembly as initiators in the Rite of Christian Initiation of adults	Come, thou long-expected Jesus: Healing a wounded congregation through more spiritual and intentional worship

A theology of abundance: Fundraising in a multicultural community	Recasting the vision of Virginia Hills Baptist Church through the utilization of property

Show yourself and be not ashamed: A call to the African American male for visibility	On the doorstep: A conversion from "mission" to "missional"

Developing a curriculum for global mission with a special emphasis on peacemaking and interfaith dialogue	The audible sacrament: The sacramentality of Gardner C. Taylor's preaching

Et-Tell (Bethsaida): A study of the first century CE in the Galilee	Developing a substance abuse prevention program for parents and youth

Words that cry out: Evoking passion and commitment through story	Coming out Christian: A model of four foundational questions from the spiritual lives of LGBT people to clarify Christian identity and deepen spiritual maturity

Evangelism in the postmodern context: Multicultural revitalization in the Presbyterian Church at Franklin Lakes	Exploring a new leadership approach for Ottawa Korean Methodist Church

Preparing for the harvest: Growing a vision of community within Bethel A.M.E. Church in Boonton, New Jersey	A process for helping African American/Caribbean American widows: The funeral is over - Now what?

Let the little children come: The development of a hospice bereavement program for children	William Sloane Coffin, Jr: Preacher to America's conscience

Walking with God: Spirituality in the postmodern era	Becoming alive with prayer: Connecting with God through a multi-faceted approach to prayer

Walking the labyrinth of our faith: From the frontier to the future	A ministry of comfort: An equipping project to care for the Luso-Brazilian community in Newark-NJ

Charis: Emerging worship in an Episcopal church	Open-source discipleship: Collaboration in youth ministry

"That thy house may be filled": A study of earliest American Methodist lay worship leaders between 1766 and 1773: Philip Embury, Robert Strawbridge, Joseph Pilmore, and Francis Asbury	You jes' wait a little: A comparison of the motif of hope in African American preaching during the slave and post-Civil War periods

Double talk: The duality of liberative and constrictive messages about social power and moral authority conveyed through black preaching	Returning to church: Psychoanalytic mourning theory and the rediscovery of faith in community

An Orthodox Lutheran view of ecclesiology: A doctrinal and practical exchange between Valentin Ernst Loescher (1673--1749) and Joachim Lange (1670--1744)	Using power walking small groups to connect the unchurched of Hampton Roads, Virginia to Total Life Christian Center

None of the lines outside apply: Strengthening community using online means of connectivity	New Dawn: A psycho-social and mentoring approach to prevent high risk behaviors in Hispanic adolescents

Deepening the welcome: Equipping the Christian Hospitality Vision Team members of the Concord Baptist Church of Christ in the ancient practice and contemporary planning of Christian hospitality	Cha-ching! Seeking the jackpot in small group spirituality and evangelism in a casino culture of isolation and disconnect

Finding healing with the angel of the church	Reaching spiritual maturity through the teaching of sound doctrine of salvation using John Wesley as a model

Amputation: A case study in institutional culture of the treatment of limb loss	Increasing worship attendance among formerly connected Generation Xers at Bushwick Parish United Methodist Church

Intentional discipleship through small group ministry at Union Village United Methodist Church	Developing a model for bereavement support for churches based on the pastoral services of Isabella Geriatric Center

A mission of people, places and 'altared' spaces: From St. Stephen's on-the-Hill to St. Stephen's off-the-Hill	Expanding the culture of the church beyond its walls: Effective outreach for the 21st century journey

A ministry of reconnection by reviving the class leader system in Friendship A.M.E. Church: Empowering God's people for service and leadership through divine vision	Sarah laughed: Moving from a culture of survival to a culture of new life

"The Lord of the Rings" and the emerging generation: A study of the message and medium. J. R. R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson	Towards an ethics of Korean reunification

Congregational participation in worship: A study of the Korean Praise and Worship movement in the 1980s as a model for inspiring active participation	Passionate Christ: Kenosis, feminism, and desire

Liturgical language: An Anglican perspective	Sermons and the shaping of northern Methodist identities, 1885-1905

We shall not be moved: Resistance to changes in Methodist leadership	From Corpus Christi to Spiritus Christi: The r/evolution of an independent Catholic church

Spiritual formation in family/intimate groups through exploring---Where is God in the midst...?	Building bridges: A diagnostic process for assessing and strengthening pastoral, congregational and personal relationships

Street vendors: Meeting the spiritual needs of people outside of the church through gatherings of friends	How can we grow?: Creating an intentionally welcoming and relational community

Identity to praxis: Parish narrative as liturgical bricolage	Rediscovering the New Testament Church: Exploring the concept of call at West Side Baptist Church, Wichita Kansas

Bridging the gap: Developing an alternative entry point for Christian formation at Church of the Servant United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	Intergenerational sharing in the African American church: Re-establishing the connection between the elders and the middle generation

The pilgrim and the banquet	Becoming one body: Helping your story and my story become our stories

Pastors and musicians: Utilizing the Psalms for relational ministry and moving from dissonance to dialogue at First Presbyterian Church, OKC	Catching the fire: Empowering lay leaders to be catalysts for passionate collaboration in ministry

Returning to our roots: Rediscovering the Methodist beliefs of covenant discipleship and sanctification	Harvest of joy and renewal: Creating an emergent faith community of Leetown UMC

I Have Called You Friends: Toward relational ministry in a postmodern world: Practicing authentic Christian friendship	Teaching a church board how to play: How learning to play can strengthen a church board

Secularization theory and black Protestantism: Patterns of differentiation in a contemporary black church	Rites of passage for women in Evangelical Christianity: A theological and ritual analysis

Lex Liturgiae Inculturationis: A study of the Korean traditional rite of ancestral veneration and Korean Christian memorial rites	Disability in the Methodist tradition: An exploratory study analyzing the understanding of and response to the disability rights movement by the General Conference of the UMC (1968-2004)

Forgiveness of sin outside of the Sacraments of Penance and Baptism in the Eastern and Western Churches	The hortus conclusus: Marian iconography in the late Middle Ages

The quest for happiness: An analysis of Joshua Loth Liebman's "Peace of Mind"	Re-envisioning the mission and vision of Anderson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Expanding Their Borders	Moving beyond a donut ministry: Enacting the law of hospitality

Linking generations through a couples program at Korean Community Church of New Jersey	The Acts 15 Initiative

New member assimilation for the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church	Transforming worship: The training of Worship Team for worship design

Creating a process to develop effective leaders at Cascade United Methodist Church	Transformando Hyde Park United Methodist Church en una congregacion multicultural, diversa y con conciencia social

A character development ministry among adolescent African American males	Church in the Red Zone: Rekindling passion and purpose through contextual engagement

The Christian Center for Senior Citizens of East Harlem, N.Y. (the Spanish Harlem)	Using social media to reconnect non active youth to First Reformed Church of Hasbrouck Heights

Development and implementation of spiritual formation process for the "Asian American Ecumenical Church" in Cresskill, New Jersey	Healing prayer

Teach us: Developing a model course in preparation for establishing a church institute curriculum at Canaan Baptist Church of Christ	Breaking through the plate glass window - A social ethical study of racial profiling and violent innocence in Elizabeth, New Jersey

Faith at the bottom of a lake: Religious perceptions of the city and nature after the 1997 Red River flood	Ethnography of Healing, Religion and Reconstruction of Autobiography among Second-Generation Korean American Christians

Responding to the voices of sweatshop workers: An ethical model for justice in the era of globalization	Beyond charity and evangelism: A Christian ethical inquiry into the South Korean Protestant churches' socioeconomic and political responses to poverty in South Korea

Akan Christology -- An analysis of the Christologies of John Samuel Pobee and Kwame Bediako in conversation with the theology of Karl Barth	The ritualization of remembering the dead among the Christian Javanese: A study of liturgical contextualization in a Reformed church in Indonesia

Identity formation and the transformation of symbolic loss: A psychobiography of Ralph Waldo Emerson	A self-psychological approach to the resolution of social conflict in South Korean society

Communion beyond Sunday morning: Building faith and community at First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC	Carry On Community Development Corporation there's no greater love

Beyond hospitality: Becoming family	The development of: Traditional, contemporary and blended styles of worship services

A mission minded church: Identifying mission worthy projects for global missions	Latent and manifest icons: Exploring creative and visual narratives of worship at Rockville Christian Church

Caring one for another: An interlacing module for merging members of independent churches into the Church of God of Prophecy	The cedar ministry at Bluestone Missionary Baptist Church

Tangible expressions of the Lord's Love (TELL) project: Creating opportunities to build relationships with digital women to encourage a sense of belonging	Congregational care at the crossroads: Resurrection of a faith community post mortem

And they shall rise: Moving from good to dynamic ministry by strengthening relationships between Dorcas Ministries and the African-American Christian community of Cary, North Carolina	Developing a governing document (constitution/by-laws) which connects us to our Christian vision and also keep us connected to our Baptist roots (congregational-governance) at Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Winston Salem, North Carolina

Transitioning from a revivalist pattern to a liturgical pattern of worship at Bethlehem United Methodist Church for the season of Lent 2011	Spiritual formation journey with young adults: A postmodern approach to Wesleyan "band"

The development of Babsang worship for the Korean Methodist Church of Queens	Developing a mentoring ministry to integrate previously incarcerated females into the Sanderford Road community -- Raleigh, North Carolina

Effective interim ministry in the American Baptist Churches of the Central Region	On the survival of Mennonite community in modern-day America

The theology post: An experiment in online local public theology