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2009
Transmitting Religious Capital from Generation to Generation - Kenneth E. Crow
2008
21st Century Culture Wars - David O. Moberg
Anglophone North American Christianity and Culture - Paul M. Bassett
Reification of Cultures in the Clash of Organizational Renewal - Carlton F. Harvey
The Toleration of Faith and Secularity - Richard Benner
2007
One Size Doesn't Fit All - Gary L. McIntosh
Understanding Church Size Based on Empirical Data - Bill M. Sullivan
Church Size: Reframing Our Understanding and Conversation - Carl C. Green
Choice Points: Group Size and Evangelism/Discipleship - Kenneth E. Crow
2006
Technology and the Church Through the Centuries - Carlton F. Harvey
Current and Future Use of Technology in Nazarene Congregations - Charles Crow
Future of Technology in the Modern Church - Michael D. Fetting
The Digital Church: Opening Viewers' Ears - Jay R. Akkerman
2005
Reinventing Church – Wade Clark Roof
Surveying Organizational Models – Bill M. Sullivan
Tradition and Modernity: Nazarene Identity in a Reflexive Age – Philip N. LaFountain
“Christianizing Christianity:” The Holiness Movement as a Church, The Church, or No Church at All? – Harold E. Raser
2004
Fundamentalism & John Wesley - Richard Benner
Strange Bedfellows: The Nazarenes and Fundamentalism - Stan Ingersol
Wesleyan or Fundamentalism? Political & Theological Stances of Nazarene Pastors - Linda Beail and Greg Crow
Fundamentalism in the Church of the Nazarene- Ron Benefiel and Kenneth E. Crow
2003
From Rhetoric to Reality Putting into Practice Our Century-Old Polity of Gender Partnership in Ministry - Janine T. Metcalf
Dynamics of the Placement Process - Kenneth E. Crow and Charles D. Crow
Nazarene Clergy Women: A Statistical Analysis from 1908 to 2003 - Richard Houseal
2002
Boomers: The Pig in the Python - Jerald L. Duff
The Church's Utilization of All Those Retirees- From Success to Significance - Charles Gailey
Nazarene Baby Boomer's in the 21st Century: Service and Self-fulfillment - Bob Lively
Life Long Learning and Service: Lessons Learned from the Academy of Senior Professionals - Sue Anne Lively
2001
The Church Growth Movement and the American Dream - Charles Crow and Kenneth E. Crow
The Effect of the Church Growth Movement on the Church of the Nazarene - Dale Jones
2000
Cultivating Community Through Core Values and Commitment: A Reflective Essay - Ron Benefiel
Cultivating Community: Influences that Unite Us - Charles Crow and Bob Lively
Identity, Story and Grace: A Layered Approach to the Concept of Community - John Hawthorne
Cultivating Community in a Diverse Denomination - Kenneth E. Crow and Rich Houseal
1999
How to be the Church in a Society that Has Gained the Whole World - Robert Bellah
Secularization Within the Church of the Nazarene - Kenneth E. Crow and Rich Houseal
Beginning of Holiness Movement Today: Similarities in Societal Secularity - Ken Lightcap
Systematic Secularization: Analysis and Response - Richard Stellway
1998
Beliefs, Attitudesand Norms of Students on Nazarene College and University Campuses: Then and Now - Ron Benefiel and Gregory D. Crow
Generation X and the Church of the Nazarene - Kenneth E. Crow
Nazarene Ministerial Education: Personal and Denominational Strategies for Ministerial Education - Kenneth E. Crow
Why These Schools? Historical Perspectives on Nazarene Higher Education - Stan Ingersol
Keynote Speaker - George M. Marsden
1997
Consumer versus Commitment Based Congregations in the Church of the Nazarene, 1992-1996: Sociological and Theological Reflections - Ron Benefiel and John Wright
Enduring Cultures of Laity - Charles Crow
Address to Nazarene Sociologists (Keynote Speaker) - George Hunter
Nazarene Myth-Conceptions - Dale Jones
1996
Naming the Silences: the Doctrine of Holiness - Richard Benner
The Role of Denominational Paradigms in Identity Development - Kenneth E. Crow
The Corps of Pastors of the Church of the Nazarene - Kenneth E. Crow
Wesleyan Identity and the Impact of the Radical Right - Robert W. Smith
1995
Worship: Change: Who Are we Serving Well? Who Are We Frustrating? - Kenneth E. Crow
Worship: Marketing a Production or Encountering God - Stephen Green, Sr.
Culture's Clues to More Meaningful Worship - Randy T. Hodges
Changes in the Sunday School by Church Size - Research Center
A Diagnosis of Current Trends in the American Church of the Nazarene, with Limited Prognosis -Darius Salter
1994
U.S. Lifestyles and Ministerial Preparation - Kenneth E. Crow
A Picture of Bivocational Pastors in the Church of the Nazarene - Richard Houseal
Women in Ministry - Phyllis H. Perkins
1993
The Dilemma of Delimitation Concrete Definition Versus Substitution of the Letter of the Spirit - Ron Benefiel
The Dilemma of Administrative Order - Richard Benner
The Church of the Nazarene and O'Dea's Dilemma of Mixed Motivation - Kenneth E. Crow
Nazarene Annual Reports - Dale Jones
The Symbolic Dilemma—Statues and Crosses and Communion - Harold E. Young
Response to the Symbolic Dilemma—Statues and Crosses and Communion - Joseph F. Nielson
1992
District Organization in a Culturally Diverse Region - Ron Benefiel
Strategies of Leadership: Creating a Learning Organization - Russell D. Bredholt
Reflections on the Person and Position of the District Superintendent - Harold Curl
A Sociological Hermeneutic for District Superintendents - Joseph F. Nielson
1991
A Decadal Study of New Nazarenes: The First Year - Kenneth E. Crow
Essential Characteristics for Nazarene Pastors - Kenneth E. Crow
The People Who Call Themselves Nazarenes - Kenneth E. Crow
Issues Facing the Church as it Approaches the Year 2000 - Russ D. Bredholt
1990
Conflict In the Local Church: Reflections of a Battle-Scarred Pastor - Ron Benefiel
Church Growth: Springboard for Conflict? - Kenneth E. Crow
Clergy Preparation From the Perspective of Recent Additions to the Nazarene Ministerial Corps - Kenneth E. Crow
Language as a Means of Conflict Resolution in the International Church - Charles Gailey
Conflict Within the Congregation: Lessons from Sociological Theory - John W. Hawthorne
1989
Transferring the Authentic Mission and Message of the Church to the Next Generation - Russell D. Bredholt
Denominational Self Analysis: The Nazarene Listening Post 1985 - 1989 - Kenneth E. Crow
Church Growth and Decline During the 1989 Assembly Year - Kenneth E. Crow
Denominational Identity in Historical Perspective - Ronald R. Emptage
Crisis of Confidence in Authority and Denominational Self-Perception - Jon Johnston
A Stepwise Regression Analysis of Factors Impacting the Self-Esteem of Clergy Wives - Jan Simonson Lanham
Normative Ambivalence and Denominational Identity - Michael K. Roberts
1988
The Life Cycle of Nazarene Churches - Kenneth E. Crow
The Case of Jo Dropout: One Person's Heartbreak a Case Study - Randall Davey
An Agenda for Research on Member Attrition - John W. Hawthorne
Slipping Out the Back Door - Michael K. Roberts
Assimilating Dropouts (Keynote Speaker) - John Savage
Attrition of BNC/SNU Alumni: A Speculative Assessment - Ronald R. Schmidt
1987
Internationalization: Perspectives from a Local Church - Ron Benefiel
Internationalization: The Roman Catholic Model - Kenneth Crow and Walter E. Crow
The Concept of Internationalization in the Church of the Nazarene - Charles Gailey
Internationalization: The Seventh Day Adventists - Joseph F. Nielson
Internationalization and Ethnicity: Nazarene Problems and Accomplishments - Timothy L. Smith
The Mormon Church: Organization and Operation of an International Organization - Richard Stellway
1986
Urban Cross-Cultural Church Planting Models - Jerry Appleby
Bresee Institute for Urban Training - Ron Benefiel
The Church of the Nazarene: A Religious Organization In Conflict and Change - Ron Benefiel
Nazarenes in the City - Paul Benefiel
Boston: A Case Study - Donald Brickley
The Nazarene Listening Post -Kenneth E. Crow
Training Urban Leadership: An Incipient Program - Charles Gailey
Nazarenes and the Urban Ethos: An Exploratory Essay - Stan Ingersol
Ohio's Major Cities: An Interim Report Of An Ongoing Research Project - Dale Jones
The Educated Urban Bi-Vocational Pastor: A Model of Adaptation to a Two-Third World Social Phenomenon Rural to Urban Migration - Charles Morrow
Impacting Chicago For Christ Through the Church of the Nazarene - Joseph F. Nielson
It Was God's Idea First - Joseph F. Nielson
1985
Finding the Way In: Career Paths in the Congregation - John W. Hawthorne
Pattern Maintenance, Tension Management, and the Problem of Ideological Assimilation - Richard Stellway
1984
The Doctrine of Holiness as a Holistic Philosophy of Ministry - Paul Benefiel
Does Nazarene Higher Education Make a Difference? - Kenneth O. Frey
The Theology of Assimilation - Joseph F. Nielson
Assimilating Ethnic and Other Minorities into the Local Church - Paul R. Orjala
Holiness, Righteousness, and Justice: Toward Concept Fulfillment - Richard Stellway
1983
Sociological Implications of the Doctrine of Holiness - Walter E. Crow
The Implications of Sociology and Holiness - Joseph F. Nielson
1980
An Empirical Study of the Church of the Nazarene - Ron Benefiel