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Inclusion or Exclusion: Perceptions of Acceptance by People with Mental and Intellectual Disabilities in Otago and Southland Baptist Churches
The author conducted qualitative research with twenty people with mental or intellectual disability who attended Baptist churches in the Southland and Otago regions to determine whether from their point of view the churches ...
Agent-based modelling of monopsony and the minimum wage
A simple supply and demand argument apparently shows that minimum wage policy, ironically, hurts the workers it is ostensibly aimed at helping, by increasing their chances of unemployment. Stigler (1946) claims that ...
Faith Singing
Preface : I have a wonderful heritage of church music given to me from my time as a boy growing up in the Salvation Army. I remember as a pre-schooler sitting next to my father in the Salvation Army band as he played the ...
An introduction to agent-based modelling
Agent-based models give us a way to model the aggregation of heterogeneous agent s, a feat that is nearly impossible in a deductive framework. Because these models cannot be solved exactly, they will often be explored using ...
Youth and Liturgy: an Oxymoron? A study into how and why Anglican liturgy and the Anglican liturgical tradition are being used in worship targeting young people within the Anglican Church (Tikanga Pakeha) in New Zealand.
This research used a mixed method approach to explore how and why Anglican liturgy and the Anglican liturgical tradition are being used in worship targeting youth and young adults in the Anglican Church (Tikanga Pakeha) ...
Forming Faith: A comparative study of two methods of confirmation preparation and the ways they facilitate faith formation in candidates
This research project compares two different methods of confirmation preparation and the way they facilitated faith formation in candidates. The two methods investigated were the 'traditional' and the 'catechumenal like' ...
The Modern Catechumenate in the Diocese of Christchurch, 1993-2002
Introduction : The Modern Catechumenate In The Diocese Of Christchurch.
At its heart, the Catechumenate is about forming and energizing Gospel practitioners.
Joel Green and Mark Baker conclude their book Recovering ...
Effects of Closing a Small Rural Church
Introduction : This project is based on the hypothesis that the closure of a small rural church is a traumatic event in the life of the church and the surrounding community, evoking feelings of loss and grief, which if ...
Believing Like Never Before: Identity and Christian Conversion in a Fragmented World
Believing Like Never Before: Identity and Christian Conversion in a Fragmented World.
The purpose of this study is to explore the possibility that the experience of identity and faith formation has changed since the ...
New Zealand’s legal profession – at a cross-roads?
What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? 'A good start!'
New Zealand's legal profession is an easy scapegoat for public criticism. Yet barristers and solicitors are a tightly regulated profession. This ...