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Interviews [5]
1. Building Hope With Real Faith: Anne Streaty Wimberly and African-American Youth Ministry
2. Calvin O. Pressley on the Financing of Historic Black Churches
3. Edward Farley on the state of Theological Education in the United States
4. Jackson W. Carroll on Pastoral Leadership
5. Michael I. N. Dash on African American Congregations
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Products [14]
1. An Inquiry into Contemporary Issues in Religion and Black Higher Education from the Perspective of Three Constituent Groups: An Exploratory Factor Analytic Approach
2. Another Day’s Journey: Black Churches Confronting the American Crisis
3. Comparing Strategies to Maintain Connections Between Faith Communities and Organizations Across Religions. Volume Two of the Report: Maintaining Vital Connections between Faith Communities and their Nonprofits
4. Culture Clashes in Local Congregations
5. Faith Traditions and the Family
6. How We Seek God Together: Exploring Worship Style
7. How We Seek God Together: Exploring Worship Style [video]
8. Lay and Religious Parish Ministry: A Study Conducted for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1991
9. Religion and Black Higher Education: Strategies for Partnerships between Churches and Church-related Historically Black Colleges and Universities
10. Shifting Boundaries: Contextual Approaches to the Structure of Theological Education
11. The Diversity of Discipleship: The Presbyterians and Twentieth-Century Christian Witness
12. The Ongoing Journey: Awakening Spiritual Life in At-Risk Youth
13. Using the ‘E’ Word: Evangelism, Church-Based Community Services, and Social Transformation
14. Working in the Catholic Church: An Attitudinal Survey
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Projects [10]
1. Analysis of attitudes of employees of the Catholic Church
2. Dissemination of African-American Congregational Research Project
3. Faith and Practices of Christian Congregations
4. History of Uses and Functions of the Bible in the Lives of African Americans
5. Research on congregations and generational cultures
6. Research Project on the Financing of African-American Churches
7. Study of and Conversations about Issues in Religion and Black Higher Education
8. Supplemental support for Calvin Institute's worship renewal grants program.
9. Worship, Music, and Religious Identity
10. Worship, Music, and Religious Identity: Dissemination of Research
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Research Articles [3]
1. Prophetic Ministry: The Black Church & Theological Education
2. Transforming Practices: Emerging Literature on Children, Youth and Christian Formation
3. TWO PROGRAMS AT HIGHEST ACADEMIC LEVELS SUPPORT UNDERREPRESENTED SCHOLARS
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Newsletters [4]
1. Initiatives in Religion: Spring, 1996 [vol. 5, no. 2]
2. Initiatives in Religion: Spring, 1998 [vol. 7, no. 2]
3. Initiatives in Religion: Summer, 1994 [vol. 3, no. 3]
4. Initiatives in Religion: Winter, 1992 [vol. 1, no. 2]
Related Books [4]
1. Another Day’s Journey: Black Churches Confronting the American Crisis
2. Faith Traditions and the Family
3. Shifting Boundaries: Contextual Approaches to the Structure of Theological Education
4. The Diversity of Discipleship: The Presbyterians and Twentieth-Century Christian Witness
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