This article investigates the Doctoral Support Project (DSP), which provides additional holistic support to 12 women studying theology at doctoral level. Using psychological Self-Determination Theo...

Current research analyses the intersection of music, religion, and trauma in the context of human trafficking. This research investigates the role of religious songs based on the experiences of vic...

The Eucharist is both a gift of grace and a call to communion, yet the requirement of being in a ‘state of grace’ before receiving it remains a contentious point of theological discussion today. Th...

This empirical study asked a range of stakeholders about their view and experience of ministry amongst children, young people and families in 2024. Many of the responses highlighted issues which ha...

This study explores the questions encountered by Swedish military chaplains (MCs) in their role of providing Military Soul Care within the Swedish Armed Forces. While Swedish MCs are deeply rooted ...

Published in Practical Theology (Vol. 18, No. 6, 2025)

Published in Practical Theology (Vol. 18, No. 5, 2025)

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...

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...

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...

Published in Practical Theology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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...

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. ...

Published in Practical Theology (Vol. 17, No. 5, 2024)

Published in Practical Theology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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 ...

Published in Practical Theology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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...

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...

Karen O’Donnell explains the growing interest in the area

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. ...

This article demonstrates how theological education can be transformed through the systematic integration of structured theological reflection methods derived from spiritual direction practices. Dr...

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...

Published in Practical Theology (Vol. 17, No. 5, 2024)