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Spring 2026 · Vol. 55 No. 1 · pp. 137–145 

Faculty Publications 2025

Douglas B. Miller

Books

  • Chin, Shin-hee. Entangled Harmony. Hillsboro, KS: Tabor College, 2025. [TC]
  • Duschinsky, P., C. Lundy, M. J. Molloy, A. Moscovitch, and Stephanie P. Stobbe. Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025. [CMU]

Chapters

  • Brenneman, Janet, and Kelsea McLean. “The Music of Mentoring and the Songs We Share.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 57–62. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Brubacher, John L. “CUREs, and the Curricular Advantages of Being Small and Thinking Theologically.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 51–55. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Doerksen, Paul G. “Are You Alone Wise?” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 29–32. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • ——— . “The Speed of Christian Patience.” In Messianic Imagination: Politics, Theology, and Literature, ed. Joseph R. Wiebe, Paul G. Doerksen, Maxwell Kennel, and Grant Poettcker, 136–49. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2025. [CMU]
  • ——— . “Das Verhältnis von Kirche und Staat aus täuferish-mennonitischer Perspective,” Mennoniten: Die Kirche der Gegenwart 8, ed. Fernando Enns, 118–32. Gottingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2025. [CMU]
  • Dowsett, Lee-Anne. “Transformative Learning in Music Therapy Education.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 45–49. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU] p. 138
  • Dueck, Claudia. “An Invitation to Risk: A Reflection on the Opportunity fo Vulnerability in the ‘Hold in Common’ Project.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 99–103. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Dueck-Read, Jodi. “CMU and Me: Journeying Toward Intercultural Health.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, edited by Paul Doerksen, 33–38. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Dyck, Andrew. “Commending Christian Faith at Canadian Mennonite University: A Style and Content for Pedagogy.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, edited by Paul Doerksen, 93–97. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Dyck, Paul. “The Place of Worship in the Christian University.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 11–15. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Froese, Brian. “In Need of the Distant Past: The Place of History in a Mennonite University.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 63–69. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Huebner, Chris. “Hoping Against Hope: Imagining a Christian University that is Not Faith-Based.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 71–75. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • ——— . “Kissing, Killing, and the Epistemological Significance of Faith: A Reading of Othello and Sapientia. In Messianic Imagination: Politics, Theology, and Literature, ed. Joseph Wiebe, Paul G. Doerksen, Maxwell Kennel, and Grant Poettcker, 223–33. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2025. [CMU]
  • Kuhl-Schlegel, Isaac. “Attending and Responding to CMU.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 125–29. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • ——— . “Speaking with Feeling: A Response to the Symposium’s Final Panel.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 171–74. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Koop, Karl. “Mennonitische Glaubensbekenntnisse: Vielfalt und Kontextualität.” In Mennoniten: Die Kirchen der Gegenwart 8, Bensheimer Hefte 119, ed. Fernando Enns, 41–48. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025. [CMU]
  • ——— . “Telling our Stories Well.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 19–22. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Krause, Rachel, and Sunder John Boopalan. “Reflecting on ‘Ways of Knowing 1’ with the Metaphor of Microcosm.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling p. 139 the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 85–91. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Kroeker, Wendy, and Dennis T. Solon. ”Diaconia as Peacebuilding: A Case in the Philippines.” In Diaconia in Contexts: Regional Case Studies and Linking Perspectives, ed. Johannes Eurich, Beate Hofmann, and Thorsten Moos, 281–306. Oxford: Regnum, 2025. [CMU]
  • Magnus-Johnston, James. “Go and the Machine: Learning in the Metamodern Revolution.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 77–84. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Pauls, Cheryl. “Four Measures of CMU in 2023.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 3–9. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Sears, Jonathan M. “In-Betweenness and Mentoring Communities of Canadian Mennonite University.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, edited by Paul Doerksen, 39–44. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Vander Zaag, Ray. “Pacifying My Reformational World View.” In A Time of Reckoning: Telling the Canadian Mennonite University Story, ed. Paul G. Doerksen, 23–27. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]

Articles

  • Adeniyi, S., O. O. Kuku, Opeyemi Ogunyomi, and D. A. Demurin. ”Exploring the impact of home environment and digital socialization on self-efficacy and social adjustment among secondary school adolescents.” Contemporary Educational Research Journal 15, no. 3 (2025): 166–76. https://doi.org/10.18844/cerj.v15i3.9558. [CMU]
  • Baker, Mark D. “A Centered-Set Paradigm for Being Church.” Direction 54 (Spring 2025): 84–97. [FPU]
  • ——— . “Response to Brian Cooper.” Direction 54 (Spring 2025): 110–15. [FPU]
  • Benjamins, Laura, and Anneli Loepp Thiessen. “Fun, Trendy, Upbeat: Musical Tastes, Social Conditioning, and Contemporary Worship Music for Kids.” Religions 16, no. 4 (2025): 472.
  • Clements, Chris D. “From Confusion to Hope: Lament and Hope in the Faith of Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood.” Journal of Youth and Theology 24, no. 1 (2025): 40–59. http://doi.org/10.1163/24055093-bja10059. [CBC]
  • ——— . “God, Self, Identity, and the Adolescent Task of Getting Organized.” Northwest Institute for Ministry Education Research (Spring 2025): 1–15, https://nimer.ca/god-self-identity-and-the-adolescent-task-of-getting-organized/. [CBC] p. 140
  • Cooper, Brian. “Centered-Set Church: A Review and Critique.” Direction 54 (Spring 2025): 98–109. [MBS]
  • ——— . “Pietism and Pragmatism: North American MBs and Politics.” Direction 54 (Fall 2025): 179–98. [MBS]
  • Doerksen, Paul. “The Awkwardness of Being a Pacifist.” Vision 26, no. 1 (2025): 6–10. [CMU]
  • Dyck, Andrew. “Boundaries and Bridges for Unity: A Mennonite Brethren Overview.” Direction 54 (Spring 2025): 21–40. [CMU]
  • Faber, David S. “Reformed and Anabaptist.” Direction 54 (Fall 2025): 258–69. [TC]
  • Froese, Brian. ”Social Credit and Social Gospel: Political Bibles and the Great Depression,” Didaskalia 32 (2025): 36–55. [CMU]
  • ——— . “This Century has Twenty-Five Years: A Microhistory of Canadian Mennonite University.” The Blazer (Winter 2025): 2–7, https://media.cmu.ca/this-century-has-25-years. [CMU]
  • Gilbert, Pierre. “Revoking the Charitable Status for the Advancement of Religion: A Critical Assessment.” Policy Roadmap No. 150. Winnipeg, MB: Frontier Centre for Public Policy, 14 October 2025. [CMU]
  • Graber, Katie, Sarah Kathleen Johnson, and Anneli Loepp Thiessen. “Centring Relationship: The Necessity and Complexity of Worshiping with Songs and Prayers with Connections to Indigenous Communities.” Conrad Grebel Review 41, no. 1 (2025): 21–55. [CMU]
  • Heidebrecht, Doug. “Seeing Through a Confessional Lens: Renewing a Vision for Anabaptist/Mennonite Brethren Identity.” Direction 54 (Fall 2025): 162–78. [MBS]
  • Hosseini Moghadam, Mohammadreza, Hadiya Omer, Anastasia Dilello, Lia Campbell-Enns, Paula Pineda, Derek Neufeld, Sofia Ertulova, Stephen Ingram, Ernest Ho, Tim Rogalsky, and Juan Nicolas Malagon. “How Do Small Adjustments in Apical Surface Area Impact Tissue-Wide Homeostasis?” microPublication Biology 2025 (August), https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.001727. [CMU]
  • Huebner, Chris. “Hold On to Your Hat: A Lesson on How to Read the Story of Dirk Willems.” Preservings 50 (Spring 2025): 15–20. [CMU]
  • Hunt, Lindsay, and Karen Ridd. “Following the Money: Cui Bono Report. An analysis of who benefits financially from Canadian federal carceral institutions.” Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers), Nov. 2025, https://quakerservice.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CuiBonoReport-Nov-2025-Final-Version.pdf. [CMU]
  • Janzen, David, and Andre Stephens. “Engaging the Intellect and the Heart.” Christian Leader, July/August 2025, 12–13. [TC, FPU] p. 141
  • Jost, Craig Allen. “Recapturing the Voice of Mission.” Direction 54 (Fall 2025): 270–78. [TC]
  • Koop, Karl. “Mennonite Confessions of Faith: Lessons from History.” Preservings 50 (Spring 2025): 11–14. [CMU]
  • ——— . “Tradition, Retrieval, and Reconstituting Memory: Reflecting on Anabaptism’s 500-year Story.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 99, no. 1 (2025): 143–48. [CMU]
  • Lawal, K. K., Opeyemi Ogunyomi, R. F. Adenike, and A. Olumuyiwa. “Parental Neglect on Students’ Academic Performance and Psychosocial Adjustment in Shomolu LGA of Lagos State, Nigeria. Journal of Educational Thought 9, no. 1 (2025): 99–117, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16745506. [CMU]
  • Lemke, Dale L., and Juan Carlos Téllez. “Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Competence at a Christian University.” Christian Higher Education 7 (Dec. 2025): 1–22. [TC]
  • Loepp Thiessen, Anneli, and Ingrid Loepp Thiessen. “Survival Pieces: Mennonites, Trauma, and Musical Family Histories.” Vision 26, no. 1 (2025): 78–85. [CMU]
  • Miller, Douglas B. “Following Jesus as a Working Disciple.” Christian Leader, Sept/Oct 2025 (online), https://christianleadermag.com/following-jesus-as-a-working-disciple/. [TC]
  • ——— . “Recommended Reading: On Anabaptism.” Direction 54 (Spring 2025): 122–36.
  • Nickel, Jesse. ”Peace and the Way of Jesus.” MB Herald, 21 October 2025 (online), https://mbherald.com/peace-and-the-way-of-jesus/. [CBC]
  • Ogunyomi, Opeyemi J., and M. A. Hershberger. “Impact of mentorship on the development of research self-efficacy among graduate students.” Journal of Educational Thought 9, no. 1 (2025): 362–77, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16745506. [CMU]
  • Sears, Jonathan. “More than methodology: Reflections on qualitative field research.” LINCZ Learning and Research Hub, 17 November 2025, https://www.lincz.ca/hub/more-than-methodology-reflections-on-qualitative-field-research. [CMU]
  • ——— . “Researching climate change adaptation governance: A journey into rural Zimbabwe.” LINCZ Learning and Research Hub, 2 June 2025, https://www.lincz.ca/hub/n/5. [CMU]
  • Simeon, J. C., and Stephanie P. Stobbe. “Introduction: Racism, Rights, and the Responsibility to Protect Refugees.” Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies 56, no. 1 (2024): 7–30. [CMU]
  • Smith, Cheryl Dueck. “All the Lonely People.” Christian Leader, Nov/Dec 2025, 10–11. [FPU] p. 142
  • ——— . “Polyvagal Theory: The nervous system’s guide to cultivating curiosity.” Pacific Journal 20 (Fall 2025). [FPU]

Editing

  • Doerksen, Paul G., editor of A Time of Reckoning. Winnipeg, CMU Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • ——— , coeditor of Messianic Imagination: Politics, Theology, and Literature. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2025. [CMU]
  • Dueck-Read, Jodi, coeditor of Critical Feminist Peace and Conflict Studies: Bridging Critique, Vision and Praxis. Edinburgh University Press, 2025. [CMU]
  • Koop, Karl, editor of Vision 26, no. 1 (Spring 2025): “War and Peace.” [CMU]
  • Stobbe, Stephanie P., coeditor of Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies 56, no. 1 (2025). Winnipeg, MB: Canadian Mennonite University. [CMU]

Music

  • Teichler, R. Christopher. Allegro Agitato. San Diego, CA: Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 2025. [TC]
  • ——— . Bringing to Light. San Diego, CA: Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 2025. [TC]
  • ——— . Persevering. San Diego, CA: Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 2025. [TC]

Podcast

Dissertations

Klassen, Erwin D. “Relearning the Forgotten Language of Hope: Measuring Hope in Bible College Students.” Doctor of Ministry. Trinity Western University/MB Seminary, Langley, BC. Submitted 2025. Advisor: Michael Morelli. Current Position: Registrar, Director of Institutional Assessment at Columbia Bible College. https://actsseminaries.com/assets/main/klassen---hope-dmn-project-final-version-with-signatures.pdf. Abstract: This project explores the multi-faceted concept of hope through an interdisciplinary survey of hope literature and by measuring the hope of Bible college students. There is a desperate need to recover authentic forms of hope in a culture where personal hopelessness is on the rise and conventional forms of social hoping are becoming unsustainable. The goal of this study is to relearn the language of authentic Christian hope. After investigating the historical development of hope through theological, psychological, and p. 143 philosophical lenses, this project proposes a robust model of Christian hope that is heavily influenced by the work of Thomas Aquinas. It also measures hope in students enrolled at Columbia Bible College using a survey that contains several pre-existing hope scales. The data collected from this survey gives a broad picture about the hopefulness of participants and what a habit of hope might look like. The project concludes by defining Christian hope as “a responsive habit of leaning and longing anchored in God.” Hope is a habit that requires practice, needs community, is doubly critical, and is linked to adversity. It then points to several key practices that build hope and areas that need further attention. Although this project focuses on hope in the Bible College context, it has wider implications. How we understand hope impacts the way we approach discipleship in the local church, how we witness to a culture without hope, and what we focus on theologically.

Student Theses CMU

Janzen, Hannah. “ ‘Part of That Thing’: An Exploration of Mennonite Brethren Attitudes Forming Mutual Relationships with People Experiencing Homelessness.” Master of Arts in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development. Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies. Canadian Mennonite University. April 2025. Advisor: Sunder John Boopalan. Current Position: Research Assistant at Canadian Mennonite University. Abstract: This graduate thesis explores Mennonite Brethren (MB) congregation and congregation members’ approaches to caring for people experiencing homelessness, focusing on approaches that facilitate mutual relationships between people who are offering and receiving care. The overall purpose of the research is to explore how MB congregation members can foster mutual relationships with people experiencing homelessness by exploring their theological attitudes. To fulfill this purpose, this thesis focuses on three main research questions: (1) How are MB members’ attitudes about caring for people experiencing homelessness informed by Scripture and theology? (2) How do MB members’ attitudes, including theological attitudes, inform the practice of caring for people experiencing homelessness? (3) What would help MB congregation members to further develop the ability to facilitate mutual relationships with people experiencing homelessness? The thesis explores main research questions in interviews and focus groups with MB congregation members, MB congregation leaders, and people with lived experience of homelessness. The study shows that, overall, participants value relationships in their approach to care, modeling after the example of the life and ministry of Jesus. Participants name addressing p. 144 material needs as essential to care well for people experiencing homelessness. In describing their attitudes and practices, participants also identify tensions around the effectiveness of their ministries, navigating “us and them” dynamics, and understanding the role of evangelism. Building on peacebuilding and collaborative development theory, this thesis proposes a framework of interdependence as a possible pathway through these tensions. Interdependence, as the findings and discussion indicate, could help MB congregation members to continue to develop their capacity to relationally care for people experiencing homelessness.

Nayler-Giesbrecht, Janessa. “Shining a Light on Abuse: Clergy Sexual Abuse Through the Lens of Biblical Metaphor.” Master of Arts in Christian Ministry. Canadian Mennonite University. April 2024. Advisor: Andrew Dyck. Current Position: Pastor, Jubilee Mennonite Church, Winnipeg, MB. Abstract: There is a particular kind of trauma that occurs when someone is a victim of abuse within the context of Christian ministry. Churches are meant to be places of sanctuary, care, and spiritual nourishment. For someone to experience sexual abuse from clergy casts a dark shadow over church life, betraying the church’s purpose in deeply damaging ways for the victim and community alike. How a church responds to these situations matters immensely to the victims, the community, and the church’s mission. Yet responding to instances of clergy sexual abuse (CSA) in the church requires careful theological thinking as much as it does practical response. In this thesis, I present a case for how understanding God as light offers the church helpful and practical language to name, understand, and address clergy sexual abuse. I give specific attention to 1 John 1:5-10 and its description of what a life that lives in God’s light looks like in contrast to a life living in darkness. Through the lens of that text and metaphor, I explore how CSA participates in all aspects of the metaphorical darkness and how church responses need to take on the qualities of the metaphorical light of God that 1 John describes. When the church faces darkness in its midst, it must react by moving back into the light of God. When it comes to CSA in the church, this requires the church to name what CSA is and make space for victims to share their experiences, create cultures where confession, repentance, and ecclesial recognition for harms take place, and actively pursue preventative work. Along the way I draw on voices like Marie Fortune, Diane Langberg, and Heather Block to contribute their wisdom and experience to the conversation so that the light and darkness language might be woven into their foundational work in responding to CSA in the church and give it additional significance. p. 145

This bibliography includes publications of faculty, emeriti, and students of schools that sponsor Direction, identified as follows:

Canadian Mennonite University (CMU)

Columbia Bible College (CBC)

Fresno Pacific University (FPU)

MB Seminary (a.k.a., Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary Canada) (MBS)

Tabor College (TC)

In cases of multiple authors where at least one author is not from a sponsoring school, the name of the author of interest is set in bold type.

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