Alumni Newsletter

2005 Lydia Grace Burton-Edwards The Screen of Common Prayer: Using Visual Media Projection in Episcopal Liturgy The use of visual media projection in Episcopal liturgy is a rare but growing practice. This paper studies three congregations at different stages in their...

2005 Patricia Diane Boyce Confirmation: Rite Now! The Rite of Confirmation is a rite with a checkered history—in and out of favor and usage. Though it waxed in importance in the early centuries and waned in later ones, almost to extinction, it is a rite that deserves...

2005 Barbara Lynn Bond Seeking God in God's Country: A Case Study of Attempted Shared Ministry of Episcopal and Lutheran Congregations in Rural Pennsylvania This case study presents data from interviews with members of two small congregations of Lutherans and...

2004 Demi Prentiss Bridge Ministers for Hire: Lay Ministry Coordinators as Pioneers of a New Paradigm in Developing Churches The Total Ministry concept advocated by the Standing Commission on Ministry Development in its report to General Convention 2003 is dependent...

2004 Kathryn Wajda A Challenge for the Church: Supporting Generation X Parents through the Joys and Perils of Raising Christian Children in a Post-Modern World This thesis describes some of the needs and desire of Generation X parents who want to raise their children...

2004 Daniel O. Worthington Land Purchasing for New Congregations The selection and acquisition of fifteen new church sites in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia are the fruit of more than twenty years work in stewardship and a change in the culture that vies and...