Essays on Congregations

The lyrics to the song ‘Hotel California’ were written by Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey in 1976 and released in 1977. The song depicts the American people’s notion of California, which associated the city with women, wealth, and fame. The city is not described as a home for anyone but a rather a place where people who had different destinations and identities often meet. However, on reaching the city, most of these people become trapped and cannot move on with their lives, nor do they find what they had come looking for in the city. The ...

The growth of LA as a religious hub in the US can be attributed to the high number of immigrants who chose to settle in the city. Almost all religions are represented in LA with minority communities playing a significant role in the establishment of distinct religious practices as well as institutions. The high number of churches established by different ethnic groups also explains the reason why LA is diverse regarding cultural divisions. Los Angeles is often described as a city with no ethnic majority because of the influence of various religious groups. Even the minority groups such as ...

Abstract

Pastoral counseling is gradually becoming a radical provider of mental health services. Clergymen are increasingly pursuing training in both behavioral science and religion. In endeavors to manifest quality clinical practice, they merge theological and psychological disciplines. Pastoral counseling is thus a distinctive psychotherapy, given its ability to include divine and God`s power. The psychotherapy is based on the belief that people desire divine connection. Pastoral counselors mediate healing with God`s loving in order to achieve ideal wholeness. As such, this paper depicts a reflection on pastoral counseling in liaison with previous readings in class. It leverages various ...

The Sociology of W.E.B Du Bois Concepts like public sociology, the sociological imagination, policy sociology and methodological triangulation are terms frequently used in modern sociology. Sociology student are encouraged by their academic advisors to supplement their class work with practical field experience. For instance, research to evaluate the effectiveness of social programs can be extremely useful. The question of whether sociological research can have a positive effect on society is particularly relevant in the modern day. Researchers have to ask themselves whether the work they are doing have implications for public policy. Furthermore, students are expected to bring different ...

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Examining the Essential Need for Administration Does Administration Help or HinderMinistry? Church Administration Policies Organizational Charts Church Budgets Church Governments Church Risk and Sexual Abuse Conclusion

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Church Administration Assessment Final

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Assessing the need for church administration has both a spiritually led rationale in accordance with the Holy scripture as mandated by the followers of Jesus Christ to the first Christian churches and a pragmatic assumption that any organizational leadership includes the responsibility of good business administration policies. Therefore, this assessment of church administration takes into account these as well as other different aspects as ...

Southern Baptists have been, for the last few decades, one of the more polarizing denominations within the Christian faith. The largest Baptist sect in the world, and the largest collection of Protestants in the United States, it ranks second only to the Catholic Church in terms of the number of Christian believers in the United States. Its history is rooted in the racist troubles of the American South, though, as it split off from the Baptists in the northern part of the country in 1845, in a disagreement about the morality of slavery. Once the Civil War ended, the black ...

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However, restoring the South will cost millions of dollars, and the budgets of the state government exploded. Protests against the imposition of new taxes, antagonism on the empowerment of former “black” slaves, and apprehensions of “black power” triggered violent attacks against African-Americans by former Confederate elements. President Johnson foolishly disrupted the victory of his political enemies with his belligerent stance. This drove the conservative bloc in the Republic Party “into the arms” of the more progressive sector in the party. In the formerly Confederate states, the Republic Party assumed the mantle of control and restructured the state ...

Leadership in any setting requires discovering the congregational culture that may sound presumptuous at times. For centuries, religious leaders have been confronting the distinctive cultures of congregations. It is evident that immigrant congregations fought over changing the liturgy to a common language (English) and also battles took place during the Irish clergy period. History gives information that a number of anthropologists and ethnographers studied local congregations just like their colleagues would study the remote tribes both in South America and Africa. This paper aims at putting down the ideas learnt from the book of “Lead like Jesus” by Ken Blanchard and ...

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Introduction Any given society is made up human beings. Sociology is a social science that deal with the study of how these human beings interacts amongst themselves, causes of their interaction, and the results of these human interactions. In sociology, human beings are defined as social beings. Social life revolves around several components that can be used to explain how a society operates and exists. The three major of these components are the social structures, social interaction, and the social institutions. Different societies have different cultures, norms, and beliefs. In order to understand how the ...

The settlement in the German states recognized Roman Catholics and Lutherans but did not do the same to Calvinists. Calvinists who had made gains in most of the states began to demand for their rights. This brought the thirty years war due to the conflict. The conflict has been one of the most complex conflicts that have been documented in the German history. The war consisted of horrifying events which devastated the battle ground of the Holy Roman Empire. The length of the struggle contributed connection between the initial cause, outbreak in the year 1618 and finally the peace ...

The studies analyzed in this paper examined various aspects of the changes in religious congregation that recently occur in the American society. Also, the studies concerned the approaches used by women to reduce gender disparities in religious congregations. Beaman (2001) introduced a study related the issue of contradiction roles of Mormon women who are encouraged to participate in public life and be financially independent while being taught to focus on family life. The author used a life story approach that is recognized as an effective research method of research in sociological science. The findings of the research appeared to be ...

This study will include information gleaned from the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. website and the United Methodist Church website. Readers will learn the purpose of the website and the mission and services of each denomination. Each denomination addresses tough issues such as homosexuality, the war in the Middle East, and even immigration. Issues such as these have caused denominations to split and create new denominations in the recent past. Ironically, the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church are currently debating these hot topics in the Christian faith at their annual conferences this year.

The Presbyterian website only touches briefly on ...

Social sciences may be defined as the study of human character and the manner in which people relate in society. To understand any social phenomenon, several abstract frameworks of empirical evidence have been used by sociologists in the field of social theory. Each of these contributors played a separate role in building sociology. Debates, such as positivism and anti-positivism, coupled with discussions into the various aspects of society have been the major methodology used by these theorists. However, debate on the origins of sociology is as divisive as the founding fathers of the discipline. It therefore remains on the ...