It is imperative to consider the impact of the past year and a half and its cascading calamities on the Christian church and ministry. Many recent books in the field of practical theology are ...

The theology of Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche and Faith and Light, continues to be formed within intentional communities of adults with intellectual disabilities and those who share community with ...

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Three mornings a week, Susan Dunlap holds a half-hour prayer service for the overnight guests at Urban Ministries of Durham, a shelter for people without homes. Unlike other ...

The Chair of Practical Theology is dedicated to the scientific theory of ecclesiastical fields of practice and religious cultures in pastoral care, homiletics, liturgy, and congregational development.

This opening paper seeks to situate discussions about the academic status of "softer", more practical disciplines within wider contexts. The most important and most distinctively theological of these ...

In this thorough study, Darvin Adams calls upon insights from Black liberation theology, scripture, blues music, literature, and social theory to expose the problem of Black poverty in the United ...