The Installation of the Seven Congregational Leaders

2016 ◽  
pp. 44-46
Keyword(s):  
Congregational Leaders

Dilemmas of a Socinian Pacifist in Seventeenth-Century Poland

1994 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brock
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Positive Answer ◽  
Sermon On The Mount ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Congregational Leaders ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
Good Cause ◽  
Grand Duchy

The antitrinitarian Polish Brethren, from the inception of their denomination as a breakaway from the Calvinist Reformed Church in 1565, had earnestly debated the issue of whether a “true Christian” might collaborate in the workof the sword-bearing magistracy, take part in war, or kill a fellow human being in self-defense. Whereas the brotherhood in the militarily exposed Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with a few exceptions, gave a positive answer, the congregational leaders in the more secure kingdom of Poland for the most part said no. To do any of these things, the latterargued, entailed disobedience to Jesus’ commandments as expressed in the Sermon on the Mount and elsewhere in the New Testament. For Christ replaced the laws of the Old Testament, which had allowed the ancient Israelites to wage just wars and wield the sword for good cause, with a gospel of love and defenselessness. This doctrine of nonresistance the pacifist Brethren, of course, had taken over from the Anabaptists of central Europe, whose insistence on adult baptism they also adopted.

scholarly journals Achieving Broad Participation in Congregational Health Surveys at African American and Latino Churches

Field Methods ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hawes-Dawson ◽  
Kathryn P. Derose ◽  
Frances M. Aunon ◽  
Blanca X. Dominguez ◽  
Alexandria Felton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Program Evaluations ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Congregational Leaders ◽  
Worship Services ◽  
Survey Participation ◽  
Congregational Health

Congregation-based health program evaluations often rely on surveys, but little documentation is available regarding specific methods and challenges. Here we describe methods used to achieve acceptable response rates (73–79%) in a survey of HIV-related attitudes and behaviors in two African American and three Latino churches in high HIV-prevalence communities in Los Angeles County. Survey participation was enhanced by conducting survey sessions at church-based meetings (e.g., women’s Bible study) and after worship services; employing diverse survey staff; providing participation incentives for pastors, church coordinators, and survey participants; and working collaboratively and respectfully with congregational leaders. Achieving broad participation in church-based surveys on sensitive health topics is feasible when done collaboratively with congregational leaders and with a flexible protocol, which permits tailoring survey approaches to cultural and organizational contexts and leverages available resources appropriately.

Facilitating Religious Environmentalism: Ethnology Plus Conservation Psychology Tools Can Assess an Interfaith Environmental Intervention

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Douglass Warner ◽  
Amara Brook ◽  
Krista Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Environmental Intervention ◽  
Conservation Psychology ◽  
Religious Congregations ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Congregational Leaders ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Political Realm

Reliance on a limited number of methodologies may be distorting scholarship in religious environmentalism. This article describes a religious environmental educational intervention, uses a qualitative ethnological approach to describe the response of local congregations to this intervention, and uses a quasi-experimental, quantitative psychological methodology to assess the impact of this intervention on the behavior of religious congregational leaders. This article reports the impact of the Living Ocean Initiative, a ten-month interfaith envi­ronmental outreach intervention that engaged forty-nine diverse religious congregations and their leaders in California 2006-2007. This study indicates the value of studying religious environmental interventions, and suggests that carefully designed interventions may be able to increase religious environmentalism. It found that religious leaders were more inclined to engage in personal pro-environmental behavior within their congregations than pro-environmental behavior in the political realm. This study reports expressions of religious environmentalism at the congregational scale. It suggests that the potential of religious environmentalism to transform environmental beliefs and politics proposed by scholars and religious leaders may be unrealistic, yet it does demonstrate impacts of an intervention on pro-environmental behavior, thus clarifying some of the ambiguity in past correlational studies, and suggesting that religious environmentalism can help foster a more sustainable society.

scholarly journals A tale of two Sister-Principals: Mother Mary Edward (Catherine) McKinley, Sisters of Providence of St Vincent de Paul (Kingston, ON) and Mother Mary of Providence (Catherine) Horan, Sisters of Providence of Holyoke, MA

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Women Leaders ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Congregational Leaders ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social

This paper analyzes the career of two Sister-Principals who began their religious life in the same congregation: Mother Mary Edward (Catherine) McKinley and Mother Mary of Providence (Catherine) Horan. Depending on whose version of history you read, these women were rival religious or virtuous sisters in habit. Drawing on archival sources and their own writings, the paper analyzes the perceptions, in their own words, of the experiences Mother Mary Edward McKinley and Mother Mary of Providence Horan as Sister-Principals. It also provides an assessment of the historical significance of their careers as case studies of Sister-Principals. The careers of the two Sister-Principals reveal much: both members of the Sisters of Providence of Vincent de Paul (Kingston), both committed to the social welfare of the poor, both forced unwillingly to be Sister-Principals; both elected as congregational leaders; both memorialized in the public domain as powerful women leaders.

scholarly journals Using Technology for Ministry: Trends, Principles and Applications

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Alfredo Vergel
Keyword(s):  
Religious Communities ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Primary Interest ◽  
Seminary Students ◽  
Reference Services ◽  
Congregational Leaders ◽  
Guiding Principles

This survey of developments, guidelines and uses of technology by congregations and their leaders offers an overview of the topic and points to sources for further study. As technology plays a larger role in religious communities there is a need for guiding principles for its use. Congregational leaders do well to engage technology reflectively while staying informed on its possible applications in ministry. While this article is of primary interest to those in leadership positions at the congregational level, it can also serve both as a primer to seminary students and as a tool for librarians providing reference services on the topic.

My Dear Ones

Gertrude Weil ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Rogoff
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Public School ◽  
New South ◽  
Reform Judaism ◽  
Jewish Immigrant ◽  
Congregational Leaders ◽  
Racial Privilege ◽  
Market Town ◽  
School Movement

Gertrude Weil was raised in a multicultural household. Her father and grandparents had joined the Bavarian and Wurttemberg Jewish immigrant tide to America after the failed 1848 revolutions. From Baltimore they followed rail lines southward to North Carolina. They quickly acculturated as southerners, including Confederate service in the Civil War. Settling in a New South mill and market town, they rose from clerks and peddlers to successful mercantilists and entrepreneurs. Gertrude was raised amidst affluence, with white racial privilege, and benefitted from the progressive public school movement. Weils were also observant Jews, and her parents as congregational leaders imbued her with the ethics of Reform Judaism. Her identities as an emancipated Jew, cultured German, and progressive New Southerner were consonant.

scholarly journals Dynamics and Stability in Globally Expanding Charismatic Religions: The Case of the Vineyard Movement in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren Freudenberg
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Charismatic Movement ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Congregational Leaders ◽  
Print Material ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Vineyard Movement ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Religious Landscape

This article examines processes of religious transfer taking place in the neo-Charismatic Vineyard movement by analyzing the development of the German-speaking branch, Vineyard Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz (DACH), in comparison to its American sister association. By drawing from first-hand interviews with congregational leaders and analyses of websites and other digital and print material, the article shows that Vineyard DACH is pursuing an unusually collaborative strategy to integrate into the German-speaking Christian landscape by forging close ties to both the Christian mainstream and its periphery. At the same time, it accentuates its identity as part of the international Vineyard network as a global charismatic movement. In this way, it negotiates the tension between the dynamics of expansion and the stability of a coherent self-identity, which is a distinguishing trait of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. This development may be indicative of broader changes occurring in the religious landscape of German-speaking Europe in the early twenty-first century.

Children with Autism and Congregations: Leader’s Assessments of Knowledge, Programming, and Potentialities

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-66
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Dale Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Congregational Leaders ◽  
And Training ◽  
Case Basis

The purpose of this study was to explore congregational responses to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The limited research around ASD and congregations reveals a lack of engagement with, and integration of, persons with ASD. In the current study, a mixed methods approach focused on congregational leaders’ knowledge, perceptions, and interests regarding ASD and related education and programming.  A quantitative element assessed leaders of congregations by means of a survey (N=121), while a qualitative element offered participants an opportunity to comment on the survey (n=51) and participate in an interview (n=12). An analysis of the data suggests that leaders’ knowledge of ASD was higher than anticipated but that formal programming was lacking in smaller churches. Responses in smaller churches were less formal, occurred on a case-by-case basis, and were led by professionals and parents native to those churches. Leaders reported an interest in more education and training regarding .                

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