Research Areas

CHARIS has identified the following as broad areas within which there exist numerous opportunities for research. Specific research questions are invited. One of the goals of CHARIS is to facilitate investigation in these areas by engaging highly qualified scholars to undertake such projects, provide the resources necessary to carry out their research, and disseminate the findings of such research.

Lutheran Elementary Schools

Lutheran Elementary School Enrollments

Research Update: WELS Baptism Rates Lower in Congregations with School

Research Update: The Lutheran Elementary School, Early Childhood Education, and Congregational Ministry Focus

Effective Evangelistic Churches:

Research Update: Effective Evangelistic Churches

Church Leadership:

styles, attributes, organizational context

Religion and the Media:

media bias, how Christians are portrayed, how the church can use the media

Culture and the Church:

influence, values, attitudes, communication, diversity, tolerance, post-modernity

Membership Profiles:

behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values among Lutherans, the youth drain

Technology:

the new medium for evangelism, challenges to the Gospel

Moral Development of Children

Those interested in posing specific questions or problems should address them to Rev. Dr. Ron Heins, executive director of CHARIS.

E-mail: ron.heins@wlc.edu
FAX: (414) 443-8514
Mail: CHARIS · 8800 W Bluemound Rd · Milwaukee, WI 53226