It is imperative to consider the impact of the past year and a half and its cascading calamities on the Christian church and ministry. Many recent books in the field of practical theology are ...

The theology of Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche and Faith and Light, continues to be formed within intentional communities of adults with intellectual disabilities and those who share community with ...

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Three mornings a week, Susan Dunlap holds a half-hour prayer service for the overnight guests at Urban Ministries of Durham, a shelter for people without homes. Unlike other ...

This opening paper seeks to situate discussions about the academic status of "softer", more practical disciplines within wider contexts. The most important and most distinctively theological of these ...

Pastoral imagination, writes Eileen Campbell-Reed, is the ability to lead with “situated possibility,” to improvise on a daily basis while envisioning what might lie beyond current realities. This ...