{"id":1388,"date":"2017-04-26T18:33:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T23:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2017-04-26T18:35:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T23:35:31","slug":"doctor-of-ministry-graduates-present-at-national-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/doctor-of-ministry-graduates-present-at-national-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor of Ministry Graduates Present at National Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Academy of Religious Leadership is an international academic guild of professors, scholars, and practitioners who gather for an annual conference each spring to read papers, interact about what is new in the field of leadership, and deepen theological reflection and innovative theory for the sake of healthy churches and religious organizations. This spring\u2019s conference, held April 20-22 in a downtown hotel in Chicago, also witnessed a rather significant gathering of alumni from Abilene Christian University\u2019s Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Carson Reed (&#8217;95)<\/strong>, the director of ACU\u2019s D.Min. program is also on the board of the <a href=\"https:\/\/arl-jrl.org\/\">Academy for Religious Leadership<\/a>. Some months ago, when a new initiative was announced to reach out to various Doctor of Ministry programs and Doctor of Philosophy programs in leadership with a call for papers from recent graduates, Dr. Reed submitted about a dozen recent graduates from ACU\u2019s program. The call for papers went out and out of the submissions received, a committee accepted five papers from ACU graduates\u2014along with past students from places like Duke University, Fuller Seminary, Luther Seminary, Trinity Evangelical, Seattle University, and TCU. No other program had as many representatives among the 20 papers presented.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/2017\/04\/26\/doctor-of-ministry-graduates-present-at-national-conference\/arl-reed-hensley-shaffer-pickett-carr-locke\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1389\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/files\/2017\/04\/ARL-Reed-Hensley-Shaffer-Pickett-Carr-Locke-150x95.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/files\/2017\/04\/ARL-Reed-Hensley-Shaffer-Pickett-Carr-Locke-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/files\/2017\/04\/ARL-Reed-Hensley-Shaffer-Pickett-Carr-Locke-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/files\/2017\/04\/ARL-Reed-Hensley-Shaffer-Pickett-Carr-Locke-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/files\/2017\/04\/ARL-Reed-Hensley-Shaffer-Pickett-Carr-Locke-490x310.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Pictured left to right are Dr. Carson Reed, Dr. Jimmy Hensley (&#8217;16)<\/strong>, <strong>Dr. Stephen Shaffer (&#8217;12)<\/strong>, <strong>Dr. Ben Pickett (&#8217;13)<\/strong>, <strong>Dr. Randall Carr (&#8217;15),\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Dr. Jason Locke (&#8217;11).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Each of them had a presentation that came out of their doctoral project\/thesis. Of particular import is that every presentation demonstrated thoughtful theological and theoretical reflection that led to specific ministerial intervention and action.<\/p>\n<p>In additional news, Reed was elected to serve as a co-editor for the Academy\u2019s peer-reviewed journal, the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/arl-jrl.org\/journal-of-religious-leadership\/\">Journal of Religious Leadership<\/a><\/em>. Serving with Dr. Stephen Sprinkle of TCU\u2019s Brite Divinity School, Reed and Sprinkle begin their work with the fall edition of the journal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Religious Leadership is an international academic guild of professors, scholars, and practitioners who gather for an annual conference each spring to read papers, interact about what is new in the field of leadership, and deepen theological reflection and innovative theory for the sake of healthy churches and religious organizations. This spring\u2019s conference, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Doctor of Ministry Graduates Present at National Conference - ACU Graduate School of Theology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/doctor-of-ministry-graduates-present-at-national-conference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctor of Ministry Graduates Present at National Conference - ACU Graduate School of Theology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Academy of Religious Leadership is an international academic guild of professors, scholars, and practitioners who gather for an annual conference each spring to read papers, interact about what is new in the field of leadership, and deepen theological reflection and innovative theory for the sake of healthy churches and religious organizations. 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