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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"United Methodist Church"”.
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An analysis of the affirmation of personhood in United Methodist Church kindergarten curriculum
<p>An analysis of the United Methodist Church kindergarten curriculum has been made in this thesis in an attempt to determine to what extent the curriculum affrims personhood, The study is limited to six years of kindergarten curriculum, fall 1967 through summer 1973.</p><p>The first objective is …
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Mentorship Experiences of Female Clergy in the United Methodist Church: A Phenomenological Study
Within the United Methodist Church (UMC), female clergy navigate institutional structures and gendered leadership dynamics that shape their ministerial experiences, yet little is known about how clergywomen experience mentorship in this context. This hermeneutic phenomenological study explored how …
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Analysis of a Project Designed to Modernize the Communications Efficiency of the United Methodist Church
… and external communications system of the United Methodist Church (Springfield District) and to institute a public relations program. The key elements of the project involved creating a computerized communications database, establishment of the Ozarks United Methodist Reporter as a …
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Correlates of Effectiveness of Ministers in the Central Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church
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Exploring the Lived Religious Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Ordained Clergy in the United Methodist Church
<p>The United Methodist Church (UMC) as an institution has strict language against lesbian and gay people and against the ordination of the lesbian and gay people. Prior research has focused on how denominations and congregations discuss issues around sexuality, how attitudes have shifted around …
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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION: A STUDY OF LOCAL CONGREGATIONS OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
… and leadership theories to explain how United Methodist Church (UMC) congregations (members and pastors) view the work of the local church and how it differs from the recommendations of the denomination's top leadership. I develop case studies of congregations using a triangulated- …
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THE HOMOSEXUALITY DEBATE IN THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Religious Ethics, the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, and The United Methodist Moral Landscape
… homosexuality" in The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church in 1972, The United Methodist Church has vigorously debated homosexuality. As the debate has progressed, two distinct groupings of United Methodists have formed. One group has developed arguments for the preservation of The …
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The Struggle for Acceptance: Continued Resistance to Female Ministers in Rural Holston Conference.
… so, does the resistance more readily occur with churches in a rural area? The focus of the study was women clergy of the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church. My study reveals there are Methodist women clergy who continue to have churches outright refuse their projected appointments. …
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A Case Study of an Urban Church: Community Development in Action in the African American Community
… study was designed to examine how one church assists its neighborhood in engaging in community development with a goal of helping other ministries to do this type of work. The scholarly literature suggested that the church is uniquely situated to address human needs due to proximity to …
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From 'Black-Eyed Girls' to the MMU (Mujeres Methotistas Unidas): Race, Religion and Gender in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
… study places the stories of Mexican American Methodist women in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands within the context of the organizational history of the United Methodist Women of the Rio Grande Conference of the United Methodist Church: Mujeres Metodistas Unidas, or the MMU. It focuses on the …
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A description of learning in a group of well elderly over the age of 75
… members (n=10 women and n=5 men) of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Huntington, IN were interviewed.The data showed depth and comprehension in the learning experiences. The learning experiences ranged from skill acquisition to the writing of scholarly papers. The data indicated the group …
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[Black] Regional Conferences in the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church Compared with United Methodist [Black] Central Jurisdiction/Annual Conferences with White SDA Conferences, From 1940 - 2001
… Conferences in the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church with [Black] Central Jurisdiction/Black Annual Conferences in Methodism (now known as the United Methodist Church) and White SDA Conferences--specifically through the prism of race, religion, and to a lesser degree gender. Secondly, emphasis …
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Incompatible: The Construction of the Homosexual Subject in American Mainline Protestantism
… in ecclesial courts in three denominations, the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Moving from a theoretical framework that integrates Michel Foucault's theories of discourse and subjectivity with Christian body theology, this …
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Conflict and crisis in American Methodism: slavery and homosexuality, 1784-2022
… the central question: Can the reasons why the Methodist Episcopal Church experienced schism in 1844 over slavery illuminate the reasons why the United Methodist Church will experience schism in 2022 over homosexuality? Then, the thesis uses the long view methodological framework to investigate …
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Thomas A. Dorsey's influence on African-American worship
… An analysis of the state of the African-American church and Dorsey's personal life is presented to demonstrate the origin and the use of religious folk imagery that was needed to communicate the triumphs and trials of the Christian experience of African-Americans. Chapters 1 and 2 provide an …
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"We are the church": the Romanization of United Methodism, 1945-1988
… Presidential Address to the American Society of Church History, Nathan O. Hatch described the puzzling lack of attention given to American Methodism by religious and general historians. Methodism in early American history has received considerable attention and, more recently, nineteenth-century …
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The Impact of Values Clarification and Expression of Beliefs on Dysfunctional Leadership among Church Lay Leaders
… of not more than three years past from Christ United Methodist Church of Chattanooga, Tennessee and Collegedale Community Church of Collegedale, Tennessee. The Dark Side Leadership Profile (DSLP) was used to measure the degree of codependence, compulsion, paranoia, narcissism, and …
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Single Parent Ministries
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