Religious education An analysis of selected church health and church context characteristics among growingplateauedand declining churches in the Arkansas Baptist State Convention NEW ORLEANS BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Randall L. Stone BondDavid TJr
Influenced by texts from Eastern Christendom, notably the Byzantine and Coptic (North African) churches, early Irish and Anglo-Saxon illustrators incorporated "carpet pages" and other decorative motifs which represented the high-point of early Christian art. Carolingian Book Illustrations (c.750-900) ...
However, it wasn't until the 1830s when a series of simple granite churches were built across Boston (First Methodist Episcopal Church in Temple Street) that we see signs of a tangible Gothic Revival movement. Compare these ecclesistical buildings with the series of intricately carved Gothic-...
However, Buddhists are now almost numerically equal with Muslims (200,885); they outnumber Pentecostals (174,720), Jehovah's Witnesses (83,414), Jews (79,805), Churches of Christ (75,023), Salvation Army (74,145), and Hindus (67,279) (Hughes, 1997). Other available census data on ...
A total of 50 participants (70% women) from five AA churches were recruited over a one-month period. The majority (>90%) of participants reported using some form of mobile technology with all utilizing these technologies within their homes. Greater than half (60% [30/50]) reported being ...
and in so doing, I lost whatever sense of self I had. I was fated either to bending to their will to appear normal or striking out on my own to attend spiritualist churches, lectures by astral travelers and seminars by animal communicators. I was alone. Nobody I knew wanted to talk ...
nave often contained a sort of platform, the lectorium or lectern, from which the Gospels were read. When wooden roofs, still very usual in the Romanesque churches, were abandoned - often for practical reasons, and on account of the danger of fire - in favour of vaulted roofs, the crossi...
C.involves a partnership of equals C.is the job of schools and churches The danger in the sharing of household tasks by the mother and the father is that___ .A.the role of the father may become an inferior one B.the role of the mother may become an inferior one C.the children will...
Analysis of variance was used to discover significant difference between growth groups for the mean scores on all seven elements of church health. Further post-hoc tests revealed significant differences for all elements between growing and both plateaued and declining churches. No such difference was ...
Recent years have also witnessed the proliferation of spiritual healing churches in the area. The study reported here addressed itself to the role of the traditional and spiritual healers in the area, the type of patients who visit particular healers, the factors which influence their choice, and...