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Faculty Publications, Scholarship, and Academic Activity: Former Faculty

A site devoted to listing all the faculty publications.

Steve Alley, Children's Ministry

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Steve A. Alley

Chair, Church Ministry Department; Associate Professor of Children's Ministry; Pacific Christian College of Ministry and Biblical Studies

  • Official companion curriculum to the Disney production of "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe."
  • Alley, Steve, Growing A Healthy Children's Ministry, (Standard Publishing, Cincinnati OH), 2002. An administrative manual for children's ministry.
  • Alley, Steve & Cora, SKITuations (a skit curriculum for children's church) (skituations.com) SKITuations is a children's worshop curriculum consisting of one hundred skits in fourteen theme-related volumes.
  • Alley, Steve and Cora, Children's Ministry Training Series. (International Network of Children's Ministry. (INCM) Castle Rock, CO.) This curriculum was used by presenters sent out by INCM to present workshops at regional gatherings of children's workers.
  • Alley, Steve and Cora, and Eastside Christian School. Biblical Choices for a New Generation. (Standard Publishing. Cincinnati, OH.) 1994 Biblical Choices is a 1,000-lesson Bible curriculum for Christian schools (kindergarten through sixth grade).
  • Alley, Steve and Cora, and Nathan Reider. A Program of Children's Worship Through Creative Dramatics. (Children's Church Inc., Anaheim, CA.)
  • Alley, Steve, and Cora Alley. Creative Dramatics for Children's Church : Parables of Christ Series. Rev. ed., Standard Pub, 1979.
  • Alley, Steve, and Cora Alley. Creative Dramatics for Children's Church : Life After Christ Series. Rev. ed., Standard Pub, 1979.

Terri Bogan, Library

PhotoTerri Bogan

Reference and Instruction Librarian

Joseph Cho, Music

PhotoJoseph Cho

Chair of the Music Department; Associate Professor, Pacific Christian College of Ministry & Biblical Studies

  • Sung Hwan Cho, Joseph. Worship Message for the Church Choir. Yesol Press, 2010. 

Joseph C. Grana, Ministry

PhotoJoseph C. Grana II

Dean, Pacific Christian College of Ministry and Biblical Studies; Professor of Church Ministry

  • Models of Ministry and Leaderships that Work: Edited Work on Various Leadership Styles, 2006.
  • Models of Church Planting: (Electronic) Stories of Various Church Plants, 2006.
  • What God Thinks of Kids: A Theological and Sociological Look at Children in the Scriptures, 2002.
  • Preaching through tears: A series of essays in honor of Dr. Wayne E. Shaw, Co-edited by Webb and Joseph A. Grana III, College Press, 2000.
  • Sports in the Bible: Sermons and Sports Stories, 1994.
  • Shepherding in the Local Church: Program of Pastoral Care for Church Members, 1982.
  • Numerous articles in Christian Standard and Stone-Campbell Journal.

C. Neal Johnson, Business

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Chair, Graduate Business Programs; Executive Director, Center for Business as Mission

  • Business as Mission: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice. InterVarsity Press, 2009. (528 pages.)
  • “Life Without Ethics.” Foreword, in How Do Ethics Affect Your Bottom Line? Considerations for CEOs and Senior Administrators, Randall A. Smith, ed. Jackson, Mississippi: Belhaven Books, 2007.
  • “The Distinctives and Challenges of Business as Mission,” with Steven L. Rundle. In Business as Mission: From Impoverished to Empowered, Tom Steffen and Mike Barnett, eds. Pp. 16-36. William Carey Library: Pasadena, CA, 2006.
  • “God’s Transformation To, Within, and Through the Marketplace: Toward a Marketplace Missiology.” A paper presented at the IFMA/ EMS national conference, Minneapolis, MN, September 24, 2005.
  • “Business as Mission: The Distinctives and Challenges of a New Approach of a New Approach to World Mission’” with Steven L. Rundle. A paper presented at the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) and the Evangelical Missiological Soc
  • “Transformation to, within and through the Marketplace.” In A Unifying Vision of the Church’s Mission, Luis K. Bush, ed. Pp. 63-69. Pattaya, Thailand: 2004 Forum for World Evangelization.
  • “God’s Mission To, Within, and Through the Marketplace: Toward a Marketplace.” PhD dissertation, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2004.
  • “Book Review of On Kingdom Business.” In Missiology: An International Review (April 2004) XXXII(2):245-246.
  • “Marketplace Missiology.” In The Mentor (January/February 2004). La Mirada, CA: Biola University School of Business.
  • “Toward a Marketplace Missiology.” In Missiology: An International Review (January 2003) XXXI(1):87-97.
  • Directory of Marketplace Ministries 2003. Editor. Pasadena, CA: Institute for Marketplace Ministries, 2003.
  • “Glad You Asked!” In The Bible in Business, R. Jenson, ed. Pp. 19-21. Sisters, OR: Questar, 1989.
  • "Living Wisdom." In The Bible in Business, R. Jenson, ed. Pp. 75-77. Sisters, OR: Questar, 1989.

Erik C. Maiershofer, History

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Erik C. Maiershofer

Associate Professor of History, College of Arts & Sciences

  • Maiershofer, Erik C. The City Restored: Memory, Reconstruction and Civic Identity in Augsburg, 1944-1955. Ph.D. Dissertation, 2004.

David L. Matson, Biblical Studies

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David L. Matson

Professor of Biblical Studies, Pacific Christian College of Ministry & Biblical Studies

Books

Chapters / Entries

  • “Cornelius,” Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, ed. David Noel Freedman. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
  • “Zacchaeus,” Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible.
  • Contributor, Contexticon of New Testament Language, New Testament Language Project, Cambridge, MA.

Articles

  • “Breaking the Bread, Breaking the Veil: Recognition of Jesus at Emmaus,” Leaven 3 (1995): 8-12.
  • “Ministry in Luke-Acts,” Leaven (Summer Quarter), editor.
  • “‘Outside Are the Dogs’: Interpreting Revelation’s Hate Language,” Leaven 8 (2000): 40-47.
  • “Revelation in Perspective,” Leaven 8 (2000), editor.
  • “Freedom or Fortune: Discerning Paul’s Basis for Ethics,” Leaven 8 (2000): 180-82.
  • “What Does Church Have to Do with God? A Case for Historic Christian Worship” The Christian Standard (June 10, 2001): 10-13.
  • "Who Wrote the Lunenburg Letter? The Untold Story of the 'Conscientious Sister' of Lunenburg," Stone-Campbell Journal 11 (2008): 3-28.
  • “Tuning the Faith: The Cornelius Story in Resonance Perspective,” Perspectives in Religious Studies 33 (2006): 449-465.
  • “Apostolic Church: The Significance of the Sent Community in the Gospel of John,” Leaven 14 (2006): 9-15.

Reviews

  • Review of Beyond Reasonable Doubt: 95 Theses Which Dispute the Church’s Conviction Against Women, by T. Scott Womble, in Stone-Campbell Journal 12 (2009): 142-44.
  • Outside Reviewer for The Custom of Hospitality in Antiquity and Its Importance for Interpreting Acts 9:43-11:18, by Andrew E. Arterbury (Society of Biblical Literature Academia Biblica series).
  • Review of Preaching the Gospel of Luke: Proclaiming God’s Royal Rule, by Keith F. Nickle, in Interpretation 55 (2001): 199-200.
  • Review of Conversion in the New Testament: Paul and the Twelve, by Richard V. Peace, in Interpretation 54 (2000): 326.
  • Review of “Through Many Tribulations”: The Theology of Persecution in Luke-Acts, by Scott Cunningham, in Religious Studies Review 25 (1999): 303.
  • Review of Luke1:1-9:50 and Luke 9:51-24:53, by Darrel L. Bock, in Religious Studies Review 24 (1998): 85.
  • Review of The Davidic Messiah in Luke-Acts, by Mark L. Strauss, in Religious Studies Review 23 (1997): 184.
  • Review of The Ongoing Feast: Table Fellowship and Eschatology at Emmaus, by Arthur A. Just, Jr., in Interpretation 46 (1995): 208.
  • Review of Leadership and Discipleship: A Study of Luke 22:24-30, by Peter K. Nelson, Religious Studies Review 21 (1995): 235.
  • Review of New Views on Luke and Acts, by Earl Richard, ed., in Religious Studies Review 21 (1995): 235.

Stephen L. Richardson, Biblical Studies

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Stephen Richardson

Chair of the Biblical Studies Department; Associate Professor, Pacific Christian College of Ministry & Biblical Studies

  • Chapter entitled "Lordship of Christ" in Hope for the Future: Contemporary Values of the Restoration Movement.

Roberto Sirvent, Political Science

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Roberto Sirvent

Associate Professor of Social Science, College of Arts & Sciences

  • By Faith and Reason: The Essential Keith Ward. Book co-edited with Wm. Curtis Holtzen (London: Darton Longman and Todd Publishers, 2012).
  • “Niebuhrian Realism in Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope,” co-authored with Neil Baker, in Henry Veggian and Richard Purcell, eds., The Writings of President Barack Obama, (New York: Rodopi Press, in preparation).
  • “‘A Mormon Just Believes’: Reinhold Niebuhr and Religious Foolishness,” co-authored with Neil Baker, in Marc Edward Shaw and Holly Welker, eds., Anthology on the Book of Mormon Musical (Publisher TBD, in preparation).
  • “Is There Such a Thing as Religious Violence?” co-authored with Ian Diorio, in Robert Arp, ed., Homeland and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court, in preparation).
  • “What Makes the Nation-State Worth Killing For?” co-authored with Ian Diorio, in Robert Arp, ed., Homeland and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court, in preparation).
  • “South Park, The Book of Mormon and How Religious Fundamentalists Always Find a Way to Be Naive and Arrogant at the Same Time,” co-authored with Neil Baker, in Robert Arp, ed., The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
  • “GOP Almighty: When God Tells Me (and My Opponents) to Run for President,” co-authored with Neil Baker, in Jason Holt, ed., The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
  • “What’s Wrong With Agent Van Alden’s God?,” co-authored with Neil Baker, in Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene, eds., Boardwalk Empire and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court, 2013).
  • Review of Ward E. Jones and Samantha Vice, eds., Ethics at the Cinema in Philosophy in Review, Vol 32, No 2 (2012).
  • Review of Robert Talisse, Democracy and Moral Conflict in Philosophy in Review, Vol 30, No 6 (2010).

John D. Webb, Communications

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John D. Webb

Professor, Pacific Christian College of Ministry & Biblical Studies

  • "Using Biblical Story in Preaching," Journal of the Academy of Homiletics, 2002 Storytelling and the art of preaching, in process, co-authored with Joseph M. Webb Various articles for Christian Standard.
  • Preaching through tears: A series of essays in honor of Dr. Wayne E. Shaw, Co-edited by Webb and Joseph A. Grana III, College Press, 2000.
  • How to change the image of your church in the Creative Leadership Series, Abingdon Press, 1993.

Mary E. Wright, Business and Management

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Mary E. Wright

Chair of the Business Administration Department; Associate Professor, College of Business & Management

  • Dissertation: "Factors Having the Greatest Effect on People Who Are Attending Weight-Loss Programs in Southern California That Would Increase the Intent to Continue Membership," 2008