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How Can the Bible Guide Our Consumption?

By Brian Albright, PhD Financial decisions can be connected to several challenges that people face in life. Personal debt and working long hours can cause stress on families. The businesses that supply people’s needs are regularly accused of harming the climate … Continue reading

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Evangelicals and Liturgy

By Lorn Gieck, DWS  Introduction  After ignoring liturgy for centuries many evangelical churches are experimenting with it. This article is an attempt to understand why and how, after all this time, a new renewal of worship is occurring in the … Continue reading

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God, Self, Identity, and the Adolescent Task of Getting Organized

By Chris D. Clements, PhD A casual opening note to youth workers, mentors and caring adults: I can remember being a teenager in a Bible study series my youth group was running. Our group leader reminded us often that it … Continue reading

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The Anonymous King: A Foundation for a Messianic Reading of the Psalter

While scholarship on the Psalms has a long history, a more recent movement has been to study the Psalms not as a mere collection of individual pieces but as a whole, an editorially crafted book…. Continue reading

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Help, Lord, I have Spiritual E/BD

By Kenneth A. Pudlas, EdD For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not … Continue reading

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Singing With Jesus: The Psalms in Christian Worship

By Ken Michell, DWS In the conversations surrounding worship music in the North American Protestant church, discussions tend to revolve around a simple dichotomy: traditional hymnody versus contemporary worship. Into this debate, Barry Liesch proposed that both be recognized as … Continue reading

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Seminary Faculty Reflections on Competency Based Theological Education: Confessions of a (Former) Agnostic

By Michael Morelli, PhD When Northwest Seminary and College hired me five years ago to oversee their fledgling competency-based theological education (CBTE) undergraduate programs, I was neither skeptical nor supportive. I was agnostic. Limited job prospects for a recent PhD … Continue reading

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Principles for Choosing a Model of Church Governance

By Larry J. Perkins, PhD Most church board chairs step into an existing model of church board governance. While board members individually may have only a modest sense of any coherent or intentional mode of governance, one exists. There are … Continue reading

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Applying Christian Wisdom to Climate Change

By Larry J. Perkins, PhD “Reigning in Life” (Rom. 5:17) for the Good of Humanity and Creation.[1] Some human activity induces climate change with concomitant negative effects upon creation and human society. People rightly experience anxiety and despair at the … Continue reading

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Climate Change and Science: A Hope-filled Perspective?

By Howard G. Andersen, Ph.D. Introduction This paper, along with the others by Drs. Rapske and Perkins comprising this set has been spawned by Generation Dread, the provocative book by Canadian writer Britt Wray. Wray’s book focuses much attention on … Continue reading

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Have the Apologetics Questions Changed?

By Paul Chamberlain, PhD TikTok. Zoom. Meta. Covid 19. Social distancing. Vaccine passports. Twitter. X.  Stop the steal. Barbenheimer. Imagine someone returning to North America who had been away for the past decade and hearing terms like these for the … Continue reading

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Nature and Nurture: A Social-Cognitive Approach to Moral Emotions in the Qumran Sectarian Literature

Marcus K. M. Tso, PhD Abstract: The emerging methodology of cognitive psychology in Qumran studies is yet underemployed for exploring sectarian moral psychology. This paper extends the author’s work on moral emotions in the Qumran sectarian literature by arguing for … Continue reading

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Inciting Worship: How the Gospel Drama Fuels Our Praise

By Geoff Dresser, DWS  Every week, those leading and planning contemporary worship answer the question, “What are the songs for Sunday?” Along with picking their songs, they might consider how the worship set will flow together, interspersing scripture, prayer, and … Continue reading

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All are Precious in His Sight: What Does This Mean for the Church?

By Kenneth A. Pudlas, EdD Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the Lord delivers them in times of trouble.  (Psalm 41:1 NIV) What does it mean to “have regard for the weak”; who are they? The Psalmist, … Continue reading

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Missional Community Engagement: Outreach to the Needy and Newcomers

By Susan Booth, PhD “Mommy, I’m still hungry.” “Have you seen the price of eggs lately?!” “If we don’t catch up on rent by next week, they’ll kick us out!” “Please! Need help! Mera bachcha bimar hai!”[1] One must imagine … Continue reading

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