Working adult students experience stressors due to their multiple roles as students, providers, and employees, and institutions of higher learning have not always been adept at recognising and responding to these pressures. This book examines adult students in two accelerated higher education programs (nursing and management) at one institution.
Working adult students experience stressors due to their multiple roles as students, providers, and employees, and institutions of higher learning hav...
In the mid-18th century a series of revivals flared within the colonies of British North America. These revivals transcended ethnic, linguistic, and geographical boundaries. In the middle colonies, where Scots-Irish Presbyterians were often dominant, the revivals were particularly controversial, as they divided churches, communities, presbyteries, and even the colonial synod. Fire Across the Water looks at the dynamics of this Presbyterian revival among several frontier communities and their parish churches, noting how they split along socioeconomic lines. It brings to life the careers and...
In the mid-18th century a series of revivals flared within the colonies of British North America. These revivals transcended ethnic, linguistic, and g...
Description: It seems that nearly everyone is talking about missional change for congregations. As a result, many church leaders are attempting to drive that kind of change for the ministries they lead. Some succeed. But many others hit a wall of considerable frustration as they find that congregations resist the very change that is so needed. The reasons for this resistance are many, and they are explored in this volume. What is required to move a church from resistance to readiness? Some resistance is deeply rooted in spiritual patterns. But there are other reasons as well, and they center...
Description: It seems that nearly everyone is talking about missional change for congregations. As a result, many church leaders are attempting to dri...
Why do church leaders and the leaders of their institutions of higher learning seem to speak different languages? Why are relationships between church and academy so filled with tension and misunderstanding? This insightful and provocative volume, written by one with leadership experience in both camps, explains those dynamics. Tony Blair parses the cultural and theological trends that have created this gap in recent decades and notes how those same patterns yet offer hope for the future. Blair delineates five models of more collaborative relationships between church and academy, three of...
Why do church leaders and the leaders of their institutions of higher learning seem to speak different languages? Why are relationships between church...
