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2010 Judith Anne DeLorme-Loftus Compassion Resilience: The Law Enforcement Chaplain’s Response To Compassion Fatigue The ministry of the law enforcement chaplain is a ministry of listening, counseling, and support to law enforcement officers, support personnel, their...
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2010 Randall Carl Kidder Day It’s Not Just An Old, Old Story: Introducing Congregational Emotional Systems Through The Lens Of Multigenerational Transmission This thesis presents an overview of systems thinking (Bowen Family Systems Theory), a summary of the concept...
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2010 Randolph Cassells Charles When The Music Touches Our Heart A basic responsibility and opportunity of every Christian is to grow toward a more integrated life of faith, making real the relationship between our belief and our behavior, between what we...
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2010 Martin James Carney Free(d) Spirit: Where Creating Surprisingly Connects Using a Trinitarian structure, I tell the story of the OpenSpaces Project. Art instructor Kitty Lynne Klich and the Rev. Martin Carney created this project during the winter of 2009. The...
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2010 Gene Bentley Manning A Wandering Storyteller was my Ancestor: Listening to and Preaching God’s Story This thesis explores the importance of honoring “story” within the context of the sermon. Drawing from narrative theology and several modern day...
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2010 Helen Elizabeth Jacobi Guests in the House: Preaching a Cathedral Ministry Preaching in a cathedral setting requires the preacher to be particularly attentive to the context and secular world of cathedral guests. Cathedrals are houses of prayer for all who come,...
