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Lipscomb Media: Celebrating a Centennial of Journalism
Get PDFA 2023 special issue by Lipscomb University titled Lipscomb Media: Celebrating A Centennial of Journalism to celebrate 100 years of student journalism that started with The Babbler.https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/bab/1089/thumbnail.jp
Recovering the Art of Testimony, as Embodied within the Historical Black Church, as a Missionally Formative Practice
Get PDFThis February 2023 Doctor of Ministry project thesis at Lipscomb University aims to consider how the art of testimony, as embodied within the traditional Black church, functions as missionally formative practice. The purpose of this project is to examine the ways testimony service can be utilized to reimagine an alternative eschatological community in a postmodern society. Testimony, in the historical Black Church, was a central component to the life of the congregation; it served as a tool to shape and navigate the theological imagination within a particular community, it cultivated and nurtured centered belonging and was a primary vehicle for spiritual formation. As a result of modern rationalism’s cognitivist anthropology and a general affirmation of a disembodied, dualistic theological posture, rooted in individualism, testimony, for the most part, is no longer identified as an indispensable component of Black liturgy. This study aimed to reflect on the ways testimony service can be recovered as a missionally formative discipline which directly addresses the disembodied individualism that emerged in the modern era.
This dissertation captures and examines All Nations Worship Assembly Memphis’ participation in three consecutive testimony services and draws upon the interpretive responses of the participants of various focus groups related to this project using phenomenology as a research philosophy. The participants in this research conveyed their enjoyment and hoped to make testimony a regular part of the worship service. This hope, however, was not realized. The research strategy for this project, which is thematic analysis, unexpectedly revealed the presence of shame induced perfectionism, which serves as a barrier to authentic testimony and genuine missional community and ultimately underpinned the reason testimony would not continue in this congregation. I have determined, through this research, that testimony is a v necessary practice because it trains our heart to grow in the discipline of dialogical theology. Testimony is a tool that can curate the mutual community, relationality and love that is represented in the Triune God
Fuel Your Fitness
Get PDFCaffeinated beverages are incredibly popular for improving mental acuity and exercise performance, and their ergogenic effects have been thoroughly studied. For our research project, we wanted to study the effects of caffeine, specifically caffeinated energy drinks, on muscular endurance. There are hundreds of energy drinks on the market with varying ingredients in addition to caffeine that claim to have substantial physiological benefits, so when choosing energy drinks for the study, we chose Alani Nu and Celsius because of the similarities in marketing strategies, ingredients, and serving size. We asked this questions: is there a significant difference in muscular endurance when an Alani Nu is consumed prior to exercise compared to a Celsius? Our hypothesis was that there would be a significant improvement in muscular endurance when caffeine was consumed via Alani Nu an hour before exercise when compared to consuming Celsius prior an hour before exercise
The Linguistic Reimagining of Natural Elements in Gerard Manley Hopkins\u27 Nature Sonnets.
Get PDFGerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was a Victorian poet and Jesuit priest now numbered among the major English poets. When the first edition of his poems was published posthumously in 1918 by his friend Robert Bridges, it “baffled more readers than it converted” (Martin 50). Nevertheless, despite this original reticence to accept Hopkins as a poet, the tests of time and scholarship has proven his depth and continued relevance of study
A Gentle Whisper: Restorying the Narrative of Eleven Ministers to Create a Collective Voice in the Battle Against Burnout
Get PDFThis March 2023 Doctor of Ministry project thesis at Lipscomb University investigates how there has been much research poured into the subject of burnout over the last fifty years and how its effects take a toll on an employee’s emotional, physical, and mental health. Burnout is especially prevalent in helping professions like human services, nursing, social work, psychology, and criminal justice to name a few. Vocational ministry, also a helping profession, has received its fair share of attention pertaining to burnout. Countless hours and hard work concerning stress management, clergy outpatient therapy, emotional contagions, self-care practices, spiritual-care practices, and a slew of others have been studied. Yet, where does a minister or elder in the church go to get a firm grasp on what burnout is? How does a preacher, children’s minister or worship minister know how to detect whether they are burned out, depressed or both? How does an elder know how to help a minister on staff with the symptoms they suffer from?
This doctor of ministry project was created in an effort to force acknowledgement, raise awareness, and foster advocacy for ministers from church elderships. The qualitative research method of narrative inquiry was used in this project to interview eleven ministers brave enough to share how burnout has impacted their personal and professional lives. By applying the commonalities and differences from their answers several threads emerged that were used to construct a new narrative with a collective voice. It is the hope of this project that a better partnership can be formed amongst the parties above to create a robust environment of understanding, communication, and support
Transformational Healing Within an Incarcerated Exile Community
Get PDFThis August 2023 Doctor of Ministry project thesis at Lipscomb University is the beginning foundation of a dream that I first started dreaming of while I was in prison. The dream is the development of a community in exile with the understanding that those living in exile have something to offer within the prison walls. Furthermore, those in exile have something to offer when they are released from exile. God, through Jeremiah, tells those living in exile in Babylon that they are to build communities while in exile. Through the building of communities God informs that they are to offer Shalom to each other and to all those outside of the community. This directive is apropos to those living in exile in the land of the incarcerated. I am convinced that God desires those exiled to the land of the incarcerated to build community while in exile and offer Shalom. The first thing that those living in exile will possibly need to learn, to build community, is how to work and help each other to begin a transformative healing journey.
This project explores a possible way to help the exile, as well as teaching the exile how to help each other, to move in transformative healing. The following is the question that this project explores regarding the exile moving into transformative healing: is it possible that spiritual direction techniques, aided by spiritual formation modules (spiritual disciplines) and community fellowship, assist with transformational healing within the incarcerated exile community? The following is the developmental flow of this project. Chapter 1 is a discussion on the purpose of this project and problematics that gave rise to the project and that the project had to overcome. Chapter 2 is a discussion on the correlation between Jeremiah 29 and incarcerated landscape that the incarcerated exile dwells. Chapter 3 is a literary review and theological discussion on the spiritual direction methodology (techniques) I used in this project with those living in exile. Chapter 4 outlines the methodology for teaching spiritual direction methodology (techniques) to those living in incarcerated exile. The final chapter discusses the outcome that derived from this project, the outcomes that currently continue as development projects, and the outcomes that are laying the foundation for future projects
Reining in Pitch and Pitch-Class Motives: Rules for Improving Analytic Outcomes in the Tonal Theory Classroom
Get PDFPitch-based motives proliferate in many styles of music and are routinely covered in undergraduate instruction. The treatment motives receive, however, is usually cursory. Tonal theory instructors have many reasons for skimming the motivic analysis unit, among them time pressures, underestimating the topic’s complexity, and the influence of textbook design. This standard rushed approach yields poor outcomes in which students are unable to reliably identify recurrences of a small set of motives over any musical span. They are as likely to apply brackets and labels indiscriminately to too many (trivial) events as they are to under-analyze large stretches of motivically-significant events.
This article offers a detailed methodology to combat such results, which manifests at its core as a set of graduated, restrictive guidelines for both students and teachers. The rules are cast in negative valence—e.g., “endeavor to not do this or that”— to counter the outcomes that result from classes being afforded too many freedoms in technique too early in their development. Such unrestricted analyses—which highlight phenomenally-dubious shapes, over- or under-analyze long stretches of music, and inconsistently relate ideas to each other—often fail to communicate a clear view of pieces. The utility of the method is supported by critiques of fabricated student analysis and teacher assignments centering on pieces by Fanny Hensel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Edvard Grieg