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Contrasting Experiences: Gender Disparities in Spirituality, Character Strengths, Mental Health, and Social Justice among Next-Generation Religious Leaders
Empirical study of 452 emerging religious leaders documents gender disparities: women report higher character strengths and social justice values but lower mental health than men.
KEYWORDS: character; gender differences; mental health; religious leaders; social values; spirituality
Spiritual Formation at Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology of VUU
Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology's dean shares about their approach to spiritual formation, including mission, community, and assessment practices.
KEYWORDS: open access / free access; assessment of student development; ATS Student Data and Resources Consultation (2025); Black church; case study; ministry training; slide deck; spiritual formation; theological education
Clergy in America
Research report of the NSRL offering a nationally representative portrait of U.S. congregational leaders' demographics, health, beliefs, practices, and challenges.
KEYWORDS: open access / free access; Black Protestant; Catholic priests; clergy demographics; congregational challenges; Evangelical Protestant; Mainline Protestant; mental health of clergy; National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL); quantitative research; research report
(Re)Framing Resilience: A Trajectory-Based Study Involving Emerging Religious/Spiritual Leaders
Three-wave longitudinal study of 751 emerging religious leaders during COVID-19 identifies a resilient subgroup and highlights transformative experiences as protective factors against pandemic stress.
KEYWORDS: open access / free access; COVID-19; flourishing; latent trajectory analysis; religious/spiritual leaders; resilience; symptoms; well-being
A Mixed-Method Intervention Study on Relational Spirituality and Humility among Religious Leaders
Mixed-method intervention study of 136 emerging religious leaders tests whether change in humility corresponds to change in differentiation and God attachment during a humility cultivation intervention.
KEYWORDS: attachment behavior; God concepts; humility; intention; intervention; leadership; spirituality
Virtues as Mediators of the Associations between Religious/Spiritual Commitment and Well-Being
Longitudinal study of 580 seminarians tests whether virtues mediate the religious/spiritual commitment–well-being link, finding cross-sectional but not longitudinal mediation through blessedness and forgiveness.
KEYWORDS: construct validity; factor analysis; religiousness; virtues; well-being
Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium)
Apostolic Letter by John Paul II (2001) closing the Great Jubilee year, calling for interior renewal, contemplative prayer, and "duc in altum" ("put out into the deep") as the foundation for new evangelization.
KEYWORDS: Catholicism; Christian discipleship; contemplative prayer; duc in altum ("put out into the deep"); formation of conscience; interior renewal; new evangelization; pastoral pedagogy; sacramental life; spiritual formation; virtue ethics