In this narrative inquiry & arts-based research project, five male spouses of gay Anglican clergy were interviewed regarding their lived experience within the Anglican Church of Canada. It is important to note that at the ...

Interviews were conducted with members from two United Church of Canada churches: one church participated in the liturgical practice of passing the peace regularly every Sunday in their worship while one church did not ...

Despite growing interest in the past two decades, animal ethics remains a relatively minute area of theology. Some writings have emerged in theological circles arguing for animal rights or even for how to conceive of animals ...

Churches mosques and synagogues are under pressure in an increasing secularized world. Where do such communities find a sense of identity and hope, and does it have anything to do with prayer? This grounded theory study ...

This study addresses the importance of reintroducing the transcendent into the western concept of health and proposes that energy medicine has relevance for biomedical health services. Energy medicine supports wellness by ...

This Qualitative Research study examines the data collected from worship leaders and congregational members of one specific Church that self-identifies as an intercultural church. Using the ethnographic case study methodology, ...

This ethnographic study looks at the links between non-attending Christians and their tattoos. Why did they get a religious tattoo? Does it have any connection to spirituality? What does it represent to them? This ...

The author conducted extensive interviews with three Canadian parish nurses in diverse settings about their experiences in this ministry over the past decade, with the goal of hearing narratives about how they influenced ...

This thesis argues that Alain Badiou presents a challenge to Radically Orthodox thinkers by claiming that theological discourse on being can only articulate a description of a structured presentation of an inconsistent ...

The thesis sets out the goal of isolating Daniel Dennett’s multiple draft model of consciousness from the rest of his theory of mind. This is done because while his eliminative materialism is obviously not compatible with ...