Theology what we study

Building Healthy Organizations in which People Can Flourish

Wagener and Beaton expand the idea of human flourishing to organizational life

Richard Beaton, Linda M. Wagener

Trends in Baptist Spirituality

Glenn Hinson discusses positive and negative aspects of Baptist spirituality and reflects on the current situation of Baptist spirituality

Prayer in a World Gone Mad

Desmond Tutu illustrates the importance of prayer in an unrighteous world using the example of Abraham’s bargaining with God for the lives of Sodom and Gomorrah's unworthy citizens

Life as Prayer: The Development of Evelyn Underhill’s Spirituality

Understanding Evelyn Underhill's spirituality must consider her whole life's journey of faith

Todd E. Johnson

Finding God in New Things: Ignatian Spirituality Revisited

Kathleen Dolphin introduces the spirituality of Ignatius of Loyola and current thought on his exercises

Pietism: Reborn in Order to Renew

John Weborg discusses the principles of Pietism in historical context, including reforms seeking to balance grace, fear, and God’s internal work

Quaker Spirituality: How Can We Serve Unless We Listen?

In Quaker thought, asserts Grace Adolphsen Brame, service is the hallmark of the meditative life, centered on prayer

The Spirituality of Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint Francis was “consumed totally in the desire to live a radical life following Jesus” in simplicity, humility, poverty, and the cross

Sacred, Secular, Spiritual? Contemporary Perspectives on Death, Dying, and Bereavement

A sacred-secular distinction, Bregman argues, is unhelpful in death and bereavement

The Faith Factor: Kids and God

King argues that  adolescents’ relationships with  God shape identity

A Future of Promise: Shaping Our Assumptions about Youth

A case study explores children’s  spiritual development

James Furrow, Linda M. Wagener

The V62.89 Code of the DSM-IV-R: Boon and Bane for Christian Psychologists

Maloney discusses ramifications of the DSM’s adding religious and spiritual problems

Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction: Were They Ever Separate?

Moon shares stories that shape his view of Christian spirituality—and psychotherapy

Religion and Spirituality: No Longer Forgotten Factors in Clinical Practice

Shafranske offers 3 clinical practice integration situations

A Spiritual Director Dares to Give Advice to Therapists

Sattler’s advice draws on spirituality as a way of organizing reality

Thick Patients, Thin Therapy, and a Prozac God

Dueck argues for psychotherapy that begins within the client’s worldview

Alvin Dueck

To Tell the Old, Old Story: The Narrative Dimension of Counseling and Spirituality

Counseling, says Lee, should connect clients’ stories to God’s

Cameron Lee

Sacred Patients, Secular Therapy

Gooden argues that spirituality is multidimensional, raising issues for secular patients too

Winston Gooden