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The theory of history from Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Mosca- There are a number of different modern social theories regarding the nature of society, social change, human's place within society and the idea of how…

Applying Servant Leadership within a Conflicted Church: The Project as an Act of Ministry My church, the South Iowa Chapel, like many modern churches, is a church in conflict. Conflicted churches are problematic because…

The purpose of the Book of Acts was to offer a history of the early church with a focus on the Holy Spirit and how it is the "life principle" of the Church (Johnson 1992, 14). The book focuses on the day of Pentecost…

Transition to a consumer-based model: The Salvation Army

Overview of the IBS (Inductive Bible Study) method: A review of David L. Thompson's Bible Study that Works (Nappanee, Indiana: Evangel, 1994)

Communication is typically taught from a business or management perspective. Books like Andy Stanley and Lane Jones's Communicating for a Change are therefore refreshing, offering insight into Christian ministerial and…

Rhineland Massacres of 1096 are, too many demonstrative (if retrospective) of early anti-Semitism. While to others they are examples of the inevitable culmination of Christian hatred toward all Infidels, spurned on by…

This paper discuses two of the Minor Prophets, Amos and Hosea. It focuses on the social, economic, and political context of their prophecies and emphasizes the similarities and differences betweeen the two individuals and between their thinking. It also compares present-day religious thinking with religious thinking expressed in the eight century B.C.

The speeches of Red Jacket and Tecumseh are both fundamental examples of the period and of the manner in which different Indian orators developed and utilized ethos, pathos and logos to demonstrate each point to…

The oral tradition of storytelling has existed perhaps since the times when human beings began to gather in groups around fires long before the dawn of what we would now call civilization.