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