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32 - Gold Commemorative Plate from the Three-Self Church
No full textThe Three-Self Church presented Dr. Mouw with a commemorative gold plate to recognize its collaboration with Fuller Seminary.
Many evangelicals hesitated to work with a church possessing official ties to a communist government. Dr. Mouw stated Fuller’s controversial involvement was “engaging in positive diplomacy and dialogue with the government of China, and we’ve seen wonderful results. The Gospel is flourishing in China.”https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/exhibit_70thanniversary/1031/thumbnail.jp
09 - Founding Faculty at the Cravens Estate
No full textThe Cravens Estate on South Orange Grove was purchased and housed the Seminary\u27s offices and Library until 1953.
Pictured left to right: Harold John Ockenga, Charles Fuller, Everett Harrison, Harold Lindsell, Wilbur Smith, trustee Arnold Grunigen, and Carl Henry.https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/exhibit_foundingfaculty/1008/thumbnail.jp
Flourishing in Christian Mission: Spiritual Practices that Cultivate Well-Being
No full textThis project explores the nature of flourishing among Christian mission workers. The literature reveals that humans flourish best as they take their place in God’s creation. This involves three relationships: (1) Humans are created for intimate relationship or union with God. (2) Humans are created to be in relationship with other people who are in relationship with God. (3) Humans are created to take our place in God’s work in the world. These three relationships serve as a model of flourishing in Christian mission: union with God, participation with God’s people, and engagement in God’s mission in the world.
I developed a survey out of the model design to identify exemplars of human flourishing among selected mission leaders in InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and International Justice Mission. Open-ended, individual interviews about spiritual practices were conducted with twelve mission leaders, six from each organization. The data gathered from these interviews yielded three primary findings: (1) Flourishing leaders engage in regular practices that (a) are varied to suit their lives and situations, (b) are adapted to their contexts and personalities, and (c) are profoundly communal. (2) They participate in regular retreats to quiet the voices of the world and give focused attention to God and rest for their bodies and spirits. (3) They have regular groups that serve as critical places to be vulnerable and authentically honest about their lives, missions, and relationships with God.
The data also indicated that flourishing leaders engage in spiritual practices with a sense of hopeful expectation that gives energy and persistence to their spiritual lives. They also engage practices in the context of spiritual companionship of counselors, mentors, or spiritual directors who provide wisdom, perspective, and affirmation of the truth of God’s love.
From the data, I designed and tested an intervention intended to cultivate flourishing in mission leaders. The pilot project featuring quarterly retreats, weekly spiritual practices, and monthly mentored small groups was implemented among twelve pastors from around the United States. Action research, an open-ended survey, and public record statements indicated that Fuller Formation Groups are an effective means of cultivating well-being among mission leaders.
Mentor: Dr. Ryan K. Bolge
COLLECTION 0001: Papers of David Du Plessis, 1900-1987
Get PDFThe Du Plessis papers include his correspondence with global religious leaders and local ministers, sermon notes and outlines, drafts of ecumenical documents and minutes (including those related to the International Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue), letters to his wife, and scores of ephemeral materials from various charismatic ministries. Meritorious awards, photographs, newspaper clippings, church bulletins, and cassette tapes of talks given by David du Plessis are also found in the collection
Diastolic Blood Pressure and Neurodegeneration: Volumetrics and Cognitive Function in a Cognitively Healthy Aging Population
No full textAlthough cardiovascular risk factors have continued to play a central role in the scientific discussion of dementia, the mechanisms by which these factors influence the development of dementia remain to be discovered. Further, limited research has focused on the unique role diastolic blood pressure (DBP) has on cognitive functioning and brain volume. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the interplay between cardiovascular and pathophysiological risk factors for dementia, by specifically examining the effect elevated DBP within normal blood pressure range (NBPR) has on verbal memory, executive functioning, frontal lobe volume, and hippocampal volume in a cognitively healthy, high functioning, older adult population. Participants were derived from archival data at Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI) with the sample consisting of 35 cognitively healthy, high functioning older adults. Building upon early findings of a significant relationship between DBP NBPR and verbal memory (Staley Shumaker, 2015), simple multiple GLM regressions were conducted to explore the relationships between the independent variable, DBP NBPR, the dependent variables of cognitive functioning, and pathophysiological factors (i.e., frontal volume, hippocampal volume). DBP NBPR was found to be a good predictor of cognitive functioning (i.e., total verbal memory, CVLT-II, Stroop C performance), and frontal lobe volume (i.e., RH frontal pole and total frontal pole volume). A slight trend was noted between DBP NBPR and total hippocampal volume and RH hippocampal volume. RH frontal pole volume and total frontal volume were also found to be significant mediators between DBP NBPR and total verbal memory, and RH frontal pole volume was found to be a significant mediator of DBP NBPR and CVLT-II LDFR z scores
Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Working Memory Training
No full textBehavioral symptoms such as drowsiness, lethargy, and hypoactivity are characteristics of individuals with sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), which is associated with dysfunction in attention and executive functioning. Cogmed Working Memory Training® (CWMT) is an internet based, intensive, and systematic training program. The current study examined whether the effectiveness of CWMT differed according to the level of SCT symptoms of youth with attentional and learning difficulties. SCT scores were obtained from 50 youth (31 boys and 19 girls) between the ages of 5 and 14. Pre- and post-neuropsychological assessment included WISC-IV, Conners’ CPT-II, and NEPSY-II subtests of attention and executive functioning, as well as the parent and the teacher ratings of the BRIEF. Weak trends toward significant negative correlations were found between reaction time related attention markers and SCT, and most of the self-report measures of executive functioning were significantly and negatively correlated with SCT. Importantly, for the 19 children who completed CWMT, those with low SCT symptoms showed stronger gains on executive functioning than those with high levels of SCT symptoms. The findings of this study indicate that SCT might play a moderating role in CWMT, which would be a possible reason why there have been mixed results for the benefits of CWMT
Critical Factors That Ignite a Missions Movement
No full textThe need to mobilize missionaries into the mission field and proclaim Christ is more crucial today than in any other time in history. Small sparks of revival or renewal occur daily, but many of these never ignite a movement. The question my research aims to answer is: what are the critical factors seen across various missional movements that ignite a movement and how can these factors be applied in today’s mission field?
I researched movement theories and crafted a Movement Rubric that groups movement characteristics into four categories: Human Agent, Ideology, Organization, and Strategy. Through the lens of this Movement Rubric, I conducted document reviews on select historical and contemporary missions movements, as well as semi-structured interviews with leaders of missions organizations across the country. I also conducted a document review on military special operations. Through the research, I identified critical factors that exist in each movement.
To learn how these factors could be applied in today’s mission field, I compared them to the current practices within SOF Missions, a non-profit missions organization that I founded in 2011. I developed change initiatives around several critical factors that were currently not in place within the organization. The goal for these initiatives was for SOF Missions to ignite a movement. This research offers missions minded people, churches, and organizations an opportunity to implement critical factors in their cultural context in an effort to ignite a missions movement.
Ryan Bolger, Ph.D