- “Organizational Failures and The Promised Land Experience,” by Dr. Cora Barnhart, was recently published in Christian Business Review. The article describes how the Israelites’ experience from their initial entry into and eventual exit (exile) from the Promised Land provides a useful framework for studying decline in otherwise successful companies. The study offers helpful insights from the Promised Land experience and suggests how a repentance process could help mitigate strategic errors that contribute to organizational failures.
- In November, Dr. Dana Strachan spoke on artificial intelligence as part of pharmacy education at the American Society of Pharmacy Law in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Dr. Austin Stevenson co-authored an article with colleagues from Oxford and London on the role of the humanities and social sciences in public health. Sally Frampton, Austin Stevenson, et al. “Pandemic Preparedness: Why Humanities and Social Sciences Matter,” Frontiers in Public Health 12 (2024). doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.13945695. He was also invited to present on his book, The Consciousness of the Historical Jesus, for a joint New Testament and Philosophical Theology senior seminar at the University of Oxford.
- Dr. Stephanie Bryan was published in multiple research publications. Bryan, S., Hamilton, M., Garrels, J., Ruhlen, M., & Zipp, G. (2023). Innovation in Health Programming: College Students Benefit from an Array of Complementary Approaches to Health Improvement Framed by the Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model. American Journal of Health Education, 54(2), 135–154. https://doi.org/10.1080/19325037.2022.2163009; Bryan S, Hamilton M. An Overview of Gratitude as a Mind-Body-Spirit Practice in Optimizing Health and Human Functioning. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine 2024; 9(1): 008; doi:10.21926/obm.icm.2401008
- Dr. Michael O’Connor was published in two publications: Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800–1650 by Catherine A. Bradley (ed), and Bands in American Musical History edited by Bryan Proksch and George Foreman.
- Dr. Elizabeth Stice had an essay published about AI, which looked at the perils it poses to relationships by drawing on nineteenth-century literature and the history of automatons.
- Dr. Gregory J. Rummo’s 2024 doctoral dissertation has been published by Wipf & Stock. “Reaching GenZ with the Gospel,” is a case study into the methods Dr. Rummo uses to reach his students for Christ. Dr. Rummo was also published in Minding the Campus for his article titled “Let’s Be Thankful Despite Our Differences.”