scholarly journals Norwegian Christian Leaders: The Term ‘Christian Values’ is Divisive and Useless

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 524
Author(s):  
Hans Morten Haugen
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
The Core ◽  
Mission Organization ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Christian Leaders ◽  
The Church

Church leaders and politicians in several countries make frequent references to Christian values as part of a rhetoric of dividing between wanted and unwanted view and practices. Hence, even more than a source for division between adherents of different faiths, religion divides adherents of the same faith when identifying the core of religion. The article presents findings from a survey and focus group interviews with five groups of Norwegian Christian leaders: church leaders, bishops and deans from the Church of Norway, as well as leaders in mission organization and diaconal foundations. The informants are generally very hospitable towards immigrants, not particularly skeptical of Islam, and highly skeptical of politicians applying the term ‘Christian values’ for protectionist purposes. While distancing themselves from the term ‘Christian values’, informants have a clear understanding of what these values encompass. These attitudes mirror the major attitudes among the so-called church-going Norwegians in the Pew report, “Being Christian in Western Europe”, having higher appreciation of both Islam and immigration than the other groups of informants. The article proceeds by explaining and contextualizing, including how the churches have promoted conviviality in diverse societies and whether the leaders are willing to act when Christianity is applied to legitimize nativism.

A Synthesis of Academic Research related to Church-based Family Ministry

2020 ◽  
pp. 073989132097438
Author(s):  
Edward P. Mermilliod
Keyword(s):  
Local Church ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Family Ministry ◽  
Christian Leaders ◽  
The Church

A body of academic research continues to grow to advance the church-based family ministry movement. There is a problem, however. The majority of the content produced by scholarship has, for the most part, been inaccessible to most Christian leaders. The purpose of this article is to provide a synthesis of the research regarding church-based family ministry in a format that could benefit local church leaders in their understanding and pursuit of family ministry.

Whirl of Prowess-Creation of Tool to Analyze Employability Skills Essential for the Healthcare Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-56
Author(s):  
Swati Sisodia ◽  
Neetima Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Health Care Industry ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
The Core ◽  
Hrm Practices ◽  
Core Skills ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Individual

Employability skills are identified as one of the valuable assets for an individual to perform effectively in their job. This article extricates an encyclopedic list of Employability Skills needed in the health care industry, represented through a pragmatic model termed as The Whirl of Prowess. This conceptual framework was developed using a set of nine core skills extracted from research papers and focus group interviews conducted on 100 respondents. These skills form the core of model along with 22 attributes, forming the periphery. This will assist an organization to set some benchmarks, on the basis of which employees are evaluated demonstrating proficiency/ sufficiency/ deficiency levels. This model would help organizations to facilitate tailored training programs for their employees. The Whirl of Prowess would act as a skill meter available to organizations to evaluate and analyze the individual skills for various HRM practices like recruitment, career-development, performance management and others.

scholarly journals Euodia, Syntyche and the Role of Syzygos: Phil 4:2–3

2018 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-234
Author(s):  
Richard G. Fellows ◽  
Alistair C. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
The Other ◽  
Church Members ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Church

Abstract In Phil 4:2–3 Paul urges Euodia and Syntyche to unite with each other. He also addresses ‘true yokefellow’, and asks him to assist the two women. This paper disputes the almost universally held assumption that Paul was asking him to mediate a conflict between the two women. Rather, Paul is here calling the church leaders, Euodia and Syntyche, to have the mind of Christ and to foster unity among the Philippian churches, and the other church members to support them. The term ‘true yokefellow’ is a piece of ‘idealized praise’ and is Paul’s way of diplomatically correcting one or more church members.

Unions and Confraternity with Cluny

1965 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. E. J. Cowdrey
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
The South ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
The Church

It is not at first sight easy to explain the ever-growing appeal which Cluny had during the tenth and eleventh centuries for clergy and still more for laymen, particularly in Burgundy, France, Christian Spain and North Italy. The basis of Cluniac life was the choir service of the monks and the silence and ordered round of the cloister. By and large the Cluniacs did not seek to work outside the cloister or to become involved in wider pastoral care. They were, indeed, concerned for the Church and for the world at large, but with a view to winning individuals to share spiritually and to support materially the other-worldly ends of the monastic order. Yet, especially under abbots Odilo and Hugh, there was a rapid rise in the number of houses subject to Cluny or otherwise influenced by it; a Cluniac house formed part of the neighbourhood of a large part of the people who lived to the south and west of Lorraine. Cluny itself was well situated to attract travellers, and its dependencies were especially important on the pilgrimage routes. Together with the increasing number of Cluniac houses the long series of charters which record its endowment with monasteries, churches, lands and other wealth testify to its impact upon Church and Society in western Europe.

scholarly journals Nye styringsformer og anerkendelseskamp - den vrede hjemmehjælper?

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Marlene Dahl
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Top Down ◽  
New Public ◽  
Home Helper ◽  
New Form ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Home Helpers ◽  
Professional Home

New forms of Governance and Struggles about Recognition – the angry Home Helper? Struggles about recognition of care have evolved during the last decade in Western Europe. In Denmark struggles can be found within the field of elderly care and publicly employed home helpers. This mobilization seems to be related to the prevalence of a new form of governance, New Public Manage- ment (NPM), and is investigated from a top-down and a bottom-up perspective. A discourse analysis of political-administrative texts show a NPM inspired discourse that si- lences the qualifications of home helpers and reproduces misrecognition of care. Focus group interviews show that home helpers employ three different strategies towards this form of governance: the sweet, caring by the book and the professional home helper.

scholarly journals Unga i karismatiska och evangelikala kyrkor resonerar om sin tro

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greger Andersson ◽  
Roland Spjuth ◽  
Fredrik Wenell
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Western World ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Church

The subject that is examined in this article is how young Christians in Swedish Charismatic and Evangelical churches talk about their faith. The study takes its point of departure in Charles Taylors suggestion that both believers and non-believers in the Western world live in a “secular age” and that this affects the conditions for religious beliefs. Taylors reasoning as well as some American and Swedish studies about young believers are presented in the first part of the article. The main part consist of a presentation of two focus group interviews with young adults. In a final section the interviews are discussed in relation to earlier research. The authors argue that the interviewees emphasize the personal and the authentic, and that it is vital to have “a relation with Jesus”. They refer to, and long for, charismatic experiences but are also searching for a mature faith and an acceptance of “ups and downs” in their spiritual life. Although they shy traditional expressions and admit that they find certain dogmas difficult to understand, their belief offers them a certain “wholeness” in life. They are unhappy about the stereotypes about Christians they encounter in society but want to share their beliefs through testimony and a loving life style. Ethics, in the form of love and tolerance rather than rules, is very important. However, this is a problem not least in relation to issues about homosexuality. Finally, the au- thors note, that the church, or groups within the church, are salient for these Christians.

Toward Understanding Gift-Giving in Relationships

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-60
Author(s):  
David P. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Anthropology ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Biblical Teaching ◽  
The Church

As the subject of stewardship is taught in a church where Western missionaries work in close collaboration with African church leaders, intercultural friction is inevitable. One culture stresses interconnectedness and sharing; the other emphasizes independence and self-sufficiency. But both see wealth as a primary means of expressing those values. This article reviews aspects of economic anthropology which relate to gift-giving, analyzes parts of the Dowayo culture, and draws missiological conclusions. Understanding the economic assumptions of a culture can inform biblical teaching on Christian stewardship and aid its integration into the life of the church.

Problems of Comparing Rural Societies in Early Medieval Western Europe

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 221-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Wickham
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

There is surprisingly little early medieval social history being written. In recent years, more specifically economic history has had a remarkable rebirth, thanks to the (largely unconnected) efforts of archaeologists on the one side and Belgian and German historians on the other; but the study of society in general, outside the restricted spheres of the aristocracy and the church, has been neglected. I speak schematically; obviously, there are notable exceptions. But it is significant that noone, in any country, has thought it worthwhile to attempt a synthesis of early medieval European socio-economic history as a whole that could replace those of Alfons Dopsch or, maybe, André Déléage. It would be hard; but people have tried it for the centuries after 900, with interesting (even if inevitably controversial) results. Why not earlier? Richard Sullivan recently lamented the conservatism of most Carolingian scholarship; in the arena of social history, he could easily have extended his complaints back to 500.

Information kiosks: Singapore users' experience

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Lai-Lai Tung
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
The Other ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Public Views ◽  
High Information

Information kiosks are machines that can disseminate information, handle transactions or perform both functions. For the purpose of our study, these kiosks are classified into four different types of information kiosks with respect to the functions that they perform. These four types of kiosks are Basic Information kiosks, High Transactional kiosks, High Information Dissemination kiosks and High-End kiosks. A questionnaire survey on the general public was conducted to find out the public views on the information kiosks. Focus group interviews and pilot tests were carried out to ensure the survey was feasible and that the structure of the questionnaire was clear and proper. Generally, the results of our survey showed that older users and those with high positions tend to use less of information kiosks. The reasons cited by users of information kiosks: need to find out information or perform some transactions, for convenience and out of curiosity. On the other hand, non-users of information kiosks cited that they do not use the kiosks because of inconvenience and a lack of need to use them. Generally, transactional kiosks are found to be the most preferred kiosks due to convenience reasons. On the other hand, for Basic and High Information Dissemination kiosks, users actually prefer personalised services to them. Our results also showed that except for High-End kiosks, people's preference of information kiosks to personalised services is not related to the demographic variables but rather the types of functions the kiosks perform.

scholarly journals Transference-focused psychotherapy as an aid to learning psychodynamic psychotherapy: qualitative analysis of UK psychiatry trainees’ views

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Orestis Kanter Bax ◽  
Georgios Nerantzis ◽  
Tennyson Lee
Keyword(s):  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
The Core ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Transference Focused Psychotherapy ◽  
Training Case ◽  
And Training

Aims & method Learning psychotherapy can be difficult and stressful. We explore core trainees’ (n = 5) views on undertaking a psychodynamic psychotherapy training case using transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), in an East London NHS Foundation Trust supervision group. We used framework analysis of focus group interviews to examine trainees’ concerns, their views about this experience and its impact on general psychiatric practice. Results Trainees described various concerns on starting: providing an effective intervention, insufficient experience and training-related pressures. However, they found that TFP addressed some of them and was helpful for learning psychodynamic psychotherapy. Difficulties around the countertransference remained at end-point. Trainees suggested that introductory teaching and learning through observation might be worthwhile. Clinical implications Trainees’ experience suggests that an evidence-based operationalised approach such as TFP can be integrated into the core psychiatry curriculum as a psychodynamic psychotherapy learning method. Trainees report benefits extending to other areas of their practice.

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