Church Organization and Management Course: Articles

ATLA is the primary resource for finding articles, essays and book reviews in religion and theology.  Peer-reviewed academic journals, reviews, ceased titles, and essay collections.

• 620,000+ journal article records
• 250,000+ essay records from 18,000+ multi-author works
• 570,000+ book review records of 290,000+ books
• 1,746 journal title records, 575 of which are currently indexed

Click here to search ATLA-Religion

Also experiment with these other Luther Sem Databases for Journal Articles related to Church Admin:

• ARDA (Association of Religion & Data Archives)
• MinistryMatters 

• Open Access Digital Theological Library 

• Working Preacher 

   

   

Articles in journals (and essays in books) are smaller, usually more in-depth studies of a particular aspect of a topic.

Strategies for finding articles:

Start with your keywords, or an article you found in a bibliography:

e.g., congregation* communit* faith

Do another search using relevant SUBJECT HEADINGS that you noted in the search above

e.g., FAITH DEVELOPMENT ; CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES

Search by a combination of subject headings or subject keywords and regular keywords

e.g., developing teams

For example, this full-text article from ATLA database:

Little Did We Know: A Leadership Fable, by T. Elton & L.Eide (Word & World, Sp. 2021)

Other Topics (Course Modules) to Explore for Journal Articles and other resources:

• developing teams
• strategic planning
• coaching
• supervision & personnel
• communication
• human relations
• working with volunteers
• leading meetings
• planning events
• fundraising
• time management
• forecasting
• marketing
• budgeting & financial management
• building management
• cultural competency