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Robin Smith Ecclesiology is really the discipline that I have invested my life in. Although my job titles have most often included Christian Education, it is really the study of the life and ministry...

Dr. Henry W. Spaulding I am not sure if I chose this discipline or if it chose me. When I was in High School I read Nietzsche’s Gay Science and I was enthralled it, shortly after, I read selections...

As the Church of the Nazarene grows dynamically in so many parts of today’s world, God matches this growth with the activity of the Holy Spirit in calling persons to ministry. The Spirit of God...

Didache: Faithful Teaching edition 9:2 (January 2010), which brings a broad array of research, reflection, and insights from diverse institutions and historical settings, all addressing the wide...

The concept of short-term missions remains a phenomenon which offers fruitful exploration as a kind of Christian pilgrimage. Diverse bodies of literature demonstrate that those who travel with a...

This essay looks briefly at teaching about communication and faith in a general sense, and then turns to some specifics about communication in another language, across cultures, suggesting motives...

Personally, I think it is a text that one has to go through slowly, appreciating the notes and savor ing those ideas that at first impulse could seem intense. I consider it an unmissable text because...

Faced with so many ideas about the end times, it is necessary to at least examine which of these ideas is influencing our life and mission as a Church. How are we waiting for the coming of our Lord...

As a person steeped in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition, the above makes sense. The imperative to live out and proclaim this understanding is clear. However, I am an African challenged by precisely how...

The Hope that God will renew all things in Christ is foundational Christian faith. In “Finish then Thy New Creation” T. Scott Daniels argues that this Hope-filled ending of our story shapes decisions...

Our understanding of the end, or eschaton, is crucial in the Christian faith. It is the end that guides, shapes, and transforms how we live as Christians. Hence T. Scott Daniels’ engaging opening of...

Before starting my first season of football, my mother and I went to a nearby sporting goods store to pick up some “essential” equipment. As we purchased forearm, elbow, rib, and neck pads, I wondered...

We have received substantial gifts in Dr. Rob Fringer’s paper, “Broken-Holy People” and Dr. Stanley Bhebhe’s paper, “God’s Eternal Project.” I offer this response as a means of amplification and...

Wesleyan theologies of holiness often focus on the immanent, the here and now of how God’s love is cultivated in God’s people by the Spirit. This focus on the concrete is the result of Wesley’s...

The presentations I will discuss below are those of Dr. Rob A. Fringer, “A Broken Holy People: A Biblical Plea for God's Holy People to Embrace a Less Perfect Perfection,” and that of Dr. Stanley...