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with editorial from Dustin Benac 'Practical theology is, after all, a richly contextual and collaborative discipline and practice, such that our work is as much a craft as it is a formal academic discipline.'
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Editorial
Published in Practical Theology (Vol. 18, No. 5, 2025)
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Autistic Christians tell their experiences of faith, worship, and community in Evangelical churches in the UK
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Autistic Christians and their experiences of faith, worship, and community in Evangelical churches in the UK
This study explores what autistic Christians who attend evangelical churches in the UK find both valuable and challenging about how they experience faith, worship, and community within these contex...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2553263#abstract
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Retail loyalty schemes: a practical theological response to surveillance capitalism and its construction of the flawed prosumer
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Retail loyalty schemes: a practical theological response to surveillance capitalism and its construction of the flawed prosumer
This paper argues that retail loyalty schemes lie at the intersection of three sites of struggle: datafication, competitiveness, and commodification. It is where these overlap that the production o...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2530817#d1e429
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Can we reimagine economics in a way that does not privilege profit-making and private property rights? A question in the article
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on economic conversion
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Inconceivable! economic conversion, nonpoor Christians, and how to teach debt-forgiveness more effectively
How can religious educators and pastoral leaders help congregants reimagine what’s normal and possible in economics: in business, in government, and in their own household finances? There’s no lack...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2530812#abstract
3 months ago
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A book for those who sit with Job and realise his friends might not respond in the best way Comfort in the ashes: explorations in the book of Job to support trauma survivors
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Comfort in the ashes: explorations in the book of Job to support trauma survivors
Published in Practical Theology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2542683
3 months ago
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Theology and your bank statement: Practical economics – what capitalism's toxic assumptions and buying god have to say about money, economics and practical theology, From
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2024 Conference
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Practical economics – what capitalism's toxic assumptions and buying god have to say about money, economics and practical theology
This paper will argue that money is best understood as information flows in the context of power and politics. This reading makes Jesus’ sayings about money feel particularly modern, particularly w...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2530811#abstract
3 months ago
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Open access article
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Growing in wisdom in old age- the need to research wisdom from the perspective of older people living in care
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Dancing with wisdom towards shalom: what I learned from older people living in residential care homes
Wisdom is associated with older age in psychosocial and spiritual models of development. However research in this area does not include the voices of older people living in residential care homes. ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2471117
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add a skeleton here at some point
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Key questions about what mission is and what mission could look like in Britain in the 21st Century
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Full article: Lived mission in 21st century
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Lived mission in 21st century
Published in Practical Theology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2496869
6 months ago
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Practical theologians are not from a production line - the first task of any practical theologian is to identify what their lived theology is. A sideways glance – being on an editorial board for 25 years: personal and theological reflections from Alistair Ross
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A sideways glance – being on an editorial board for 25 years: personal and theological reflections
This theological reflection is based on 25 years of membership of being on the editorial board of the first CONTACT, now Practical Theology. Autoethnographic in style it focuses on the key role of ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2496856
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Latest book review
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Chaplaincy: contemporary and global perspectives by (eds) Grace Thomas and Kim Vasey from
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Chaplaincy: contemporary and global perspectives
Published in Practical Theology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2488554
7 months ago
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Article @practicaltheology.bksy.social on working against an us-versus- them dynamic through the process of sacramental hospitality and inclusion towards mutuality. Full article: Hospitality, social identity, and baptism
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Hospitality, social identity, and baptism
This paper examines one aspect of my ethnographic study of a congregation welcoming new members from a different ethnic and cultural group as part of a dissertation for a Doctor of Practical Theolo...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2457868#abstract
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Full article: The church as a field hospital: toward a theology of mental health
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The church as a field hospital: toward a theology of mental health
This study examines theological perspectives on mental health difficulties across different historical periods, from the church fathers to the emergence of modern mental health theology in the twen...
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Karen O’Donnell
8 months ago
Check out my beginners guide to Trauma Theology in this week’s Church Times (and the brilliant companion piece by
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on trauma-informed yoga!)
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Theology matters: What is trauma theology?
Karen O’Donnell explains the growing interest in the area
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/28-march/faith/theology-matters/theology-matters-what-is-trauma-theology
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New AI article
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questions the experience of creating multimodal art to explore theological questions in Ephesians using generative AI
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New research article
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explores a growth in wisdom through the voices of care home residents
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Dancing with wisdom towards shalom: what I learned from older people living in residential care homes
Wisdom is associated with older age in psychosocial and spiritual models of development. However research in this area does not include the voices of older people living in residential care homes. ...
https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2471117
9 months ago
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Research article from Iran on the spiritual dimensions and encounters of children with cancer and their perceptions of God - magical God, trading God, veiling God and meaning-bestowing God
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Research article - from ordinary to academic theology. How students engage with sin as a theological concept when beginning undergraduate studies
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https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2025.2450570Research
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Research article on experimental approaches to theological reflection to revitalise theological education, particularly for diaspora communities
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doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2024.2446086
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Reimagining theological education: online theological education in the Hong Kong diaspora
This article demonstrates how theological education can be transformed through the systematic integration of structured theological reflection methods derived from spiritual direction practices. Dr...
https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2024.2446086
10 months ago
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Research article
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on the precariousness of LGBTQ+ Christians belonging to the Church and inviting further reflection on how hospitality might be offered
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doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2024.2437282
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Belonging and longing to belong: being LGBTQ+ in the Church
Belonging is an essential human need commonly understood to be the experience of being a valued part of a group or an insider. A sense of belonging, or belongingness, has been found to be influence...
https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2024.2437282
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Details on how you can join colleagues at Highgate House Northamptonshire July 8-10 for the
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2025 conference - 'From Age to Age' you can book and find out options to offer a paper or a workshop
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BIAPT 2025 Annual Conference – From Age to Age: Practical Theology through the Life Cycle | BIAPT
https://www.biapt.org/event/2025-annual-conference-from-age-to-age-8-10-july/
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Adult theological education special issue now online @practicaltheology - guest editor EevaJohn '...theological education at its best can help bridge the gaps...'
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Editorial
Published in Practical Theology (Vol. 17, No. 5, 2024)
http://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2024.2397186
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SCM Press
12 months ago
Just highlighting a couple of our titles on the theme of age: both ends of the spectrum represented! - God the Child by
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- God, Me and Being Very Old, edited by Malcolm Johnson and Keith Albans
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