There are approximately 250,000 Orthodox Reformed Christians (ORC) in the Netherlands, who live according to a strict adherence to the Bible. The ORC dissociate themselves from the mainstream sport discourse in the Netherlands that regards sport as a societal good. We draw on post-structural perspectives …

This following report contains the bachelor paper as part of the study at the “Saxion Hogeschool” in the specific faculty of social services. The main question to that studie is: “In which way can and should medial knowledge be part of the professionality of a social worker within the field of Open Child …

The paper briefly describes the outcome of an approach to inventory of the current situation, inventory user demands and suggestions to improve energy efficiency and thermal comfort in Borgers' church.

Paper which introduces an method developed by the research group Duurzame Projectontwikkeling of the SIA-RAAK project Energieke Restauratie. Besides an discription of the method, it also describes the application of the method for three (fictional) case study projects: Dairy Factory Dongeradelen (Lioessens), …

Het afstudeerproject is een handreiking voor gemeentestichters die preken in multiculturele/interculturele context. De handreiking is geschreven op basis van een praktijkonderzoek en een literatuuronderzoek. Ze bestaat uit vier onderdelen: aandacht voor het publiek/de luisteraars, aandacht voor de preek …

Het doel van dit onderzoek is om Lord of Life Christian Fellowship (LOLCF) in de Filipijnen suggesties te geven hoe ze de manier, waarop ze discipelschap vormgeven, kan verbeteren. Het onderzoek is gedaan in twee kerken in Manilla: de moederkerk en een ‘outreach’. De reden voor dit onderzoek is, dat …

Urban Expression seeks to plant exciting, grass-roots, transformative ways of being church in inner city neighbourhoods. In doing this they work from a set of values, one of which describes faith as a journey. This essay looks at how this value is worked out in three English Urban Expression churches, …

The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001. Yet in 2012, it was estimated that around 87 Christian wedding officiants continued to refuse to marry gay couples due to their religious beliefs. Even though municipalities were allowed to hire these so-called …

In Christengemeenschap de Goede Herder heeft men te maken met vergrijzing en is daardoor bezorgd over haar voortbestaan. Er is noodzaak tot verandering, maar hoe? Door verschillende onderzoeksmethoden hebben wij de gemeente gescand om te groeien in vitaliteit. Sturend hierbij waren negen kernkwaliteiten: …

The main focus of this research was to explore possible reasons for the continuous decline in the congregational membership of the Redeemed Christian Church of God- Jesus House Amsterdam over the last three years. The central argument is that the church started on a ery promising note with regular …