Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Hospitality in the House of God: Deconstructing Habit and Building Missio Dei, Julia A. Carlson
Power Perfected in Weakness: The Effectiveness of Spiritual Practices on Personal Power in the Lives of Men, Steven B. Cauley
Seeking the Wellspring: Exploring Generosity in a Financial Drought, Laurie Ann Johnson
The Episcopal Church of Liberia Gravitating Towards Financial Independence: Strategies and the Way Forward, Slewion P. Lewis
Contextual Leadership Within Chin Immigrant Churches in the United States, Bawi Bik Thawng
Listening to Millennials: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Millennials and the Church, Charles R. Thompson
Defying Expectations: One Female Preacher's Exploration of Preaching Performance, Listener Expectations, and Emotion, Amy Lea Wiles
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Harvesting Hope: Biblical Preaching with People of the Land, Catherine Belles
Proclaiming Jubilee: Preaching that Sets Women Free, Jennifer Michelle Benson Moran
Congregational Exegesis: Toward Shared Proclamation, Tracy Crick-Butler
There is a Word: Using a Queer Hermeneutic Toward Liberative and Prophetic Biblical Preaching, Dewayne L. Davis
Preaching the Witness of Last Words: How Biblical Farewell Speeches Shape Contemporary Listeners' Theological Legacy, Derek J. Engfelt
Invisible Poverty: Awareness, Attitudes, and Action, Joseph W. Johnson
The Reflective Preacher: Effective Habits for Homiletical Self-Assessment, Brenda Froberg Legred
Liberated for Mission: Theology of the Cross Informing a Fresh Missional Imagination, Pamela M. Marolla
Preaching Hope: Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction as Conversation Partners with Scripture, Kathleen Monson Lutes
Preaching the Law with the Gospel, Jonathan Saur
Do You Hear What I Hear? Discernment and Dialogue in a Secular Age, Andrew J. Schlecht
Reaching the Diaspora: Streamed Worship and Preaching in the Lutheran Church of Australia, Cultivating Koinonia and Ecclesia, Timothy Paul Stringer
Missional Leadership in Times of Congregational Transition, Tormod O. Svensson
Cultivating the Practice of Neighborliness: A Missional Practice of Living in a Perichoretic Relationship with Neighbors, Abenda F. Tamba
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow: Innovating, Evaluating, and Improving Worship to Participate in God's Mission, Andrew K. Barnett
Leadership and Faith Formation in Youth Ministry: Explaining the Relationship Between Leadership Experiences and Faith Formation in Middle School Students, Neil A. Christians
Breathing With God: Inhaling God's Spirit, Exhaling God's Reign, Douglas Scott Dent
Practicing Community: Naming, Claiming, and Practicing the Holy Spirit's Sending of a Congregation in the Midst of Change into the Open Future, Meghan K. Gage-Finn
Claiming Colonialism: White Lutherans and Racism in Minnesota, 1850-1960, Katherine Parent
Unity and Diversity: How a Bilingual-Multicultural Congregation Reflects the Nature of the Trinity in Unity and Diversity, Albert W. Triolo
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Lutheran Higher Education in a Secular Age: Religious Identity and Mission at ELCA Colleges and Universities, Brian A.F. Beckstrom
Preaching to Shape Christian Witness: He Cannot Be the Messiah, Can He?, Christine M. Bellefeuille
Better Together: Leadership that Enhances Ministry Collaboration, Kristine K. Bjorke
God’s Beautiful Mission: Missional Church and Leadership in the Light of Theological Aesthetics, M. Scott Boren
Perichoretic Worship: Cultivating Relationships with the Triune God, with One Another, and with the World, Greg G. Busboom
Seeing Salvation: The Effectiveness of Preaching on the Sacramental Life in a Salvation Army Context, Steven Mark Cameron
Nearer My God to Thee: How Biblical Preaching Fosters Intimacy with God, Warren Lee Domenick Jr
Definitively Lutheran?: An Exploration of Definitive Lutheran Characteristics in Higher Education, John Eggen
Confessional Biblical Preaching in the Face of Whiteness: Challenging the Preacher’s Understanding of White Supremacy, Laurie P. Feille
Real People, Real Faith, Real God: Encountering the Divine in Preaching Biblical Characters, Cynthia Halvorson
Digital and Analog Preaching in a Multi-media World, Ramona Hayes
Great Members, Great Churches: Adaptive Change and Missional Theology in the Local Church, Christopher Jacobsen
(Re)Discovering a Midrashic Biblical Imagination for the Progressive-Liberal Community, Elisabeth R. Jones
Faith Formation for Families in a Post-Programmatic Era, Susan Megrund
The Spirit's Playground: How God Speaks Through Scripture to Develop Contagious Missional Imagination, Sarah Birkedal Nye
Recapture the Call: A Theology of Preaching as Proclamation in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Tricia L. Tedrow
Table, Food, Waiter: Preaching the Eucharist to Today’s Popular Food Culture, Richard W. Vevia Jr
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Opening to Revelation: Building Discernment Processes from Practices that Best Inform Communal Decision Making, Chris Alexander
Deepening Community: Dispelling the Myth of Small through a Gospel of the Small, Sarah R. Cordray
Walk Me to the Gate: Christian Practices of Accompaniment with People Who Are Dying and Their Families, Yolanda Kali Denson-Byers
Looking Back to Move Forward: Youth Ministry and Its Effect on the Faith and Christian Practices of Today's Adults, Andrew A. Taylor
A Congregation Engaging in Missional Dialogue: Strengthening Discernment amid Diversity through Healthy Congregational Dialogue, Jeffrey M. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Preparing Transformational Sermons: An Attitudinal Model of Sermonic Application, Donald G. Bryant Jr.
Earth Stewardship and the Missio Dei: Participating in the Care and Redemption of All God Has Made, David M. Carlson
Preaching Effectively to the Unchurched, Rodney Reed Carlson
Cultivating the Holy Callings of Ordinary Saints: The Church at Work for the Life of the World, Jeffrey A. Eisele
The Joy of the Lord is Your Strength: How Your Passions Can Serve God's Mission in the World, Jay Grave
Exploring the Effectiveness of Field Preaching Evangelism in the United Methodist Church, Paul D. Johnsen
Mystagogical Preaching in the Episcopal Church: Connecting Sermon and Liturgy, Daniel John Justin
Preaching More Effectively to Multiple Generations, Lynne Kammeraad
Cultivating Biblical Imagination Through Preaching, Edward N. Kay
Lift Up Your Hearts: Preaching Grace Effectively as a Pastoral Response to Shame, Harold Kenyon
Preaching From a Biblical Anthropology: Sources and Methods for Correlating the Gospel and the Human Condition, Paul N. D. Miller
Telling the Old, Old Stories: Reconnecting With Jesus' Parables Through Biblical Storytelling, Kathryn L. Skoglund
Led to Lead: Vocational Discernment and Emerging Pastoral Leadership in the Reformed Church in America, Tanner Smith
Wesleyan Missional Small Groups: Three Crucial Attributes, David Werner
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Missional Interim Ministry Processes a Case Study, Christopher Edwin Hagen
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Reconciling The Believing Nonbelonger: Readiness To Reach and Receive Lost Sheep, Robert E. Sachs Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Holistic Approach to Mental Illnesses at the Toby of Ambohibao Madagascar, Daniel A. Rakotojoelinandrasana
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Community and Discipleship, As Emphasized and Applied in the Life and Mission of a Covenant Church, Ronald F. Christian