These are the works cited for “Making Grace Specific,” Greg Johanson's Ph.D. dissertation.

Many commentators from Wuthnow to Wilber have underlined the necessity of engaging in contemplative practices on a wide-spread basis to actually transform consciousness in individuals and society.  The following is one model.  It is an attempt to provide concrete practices for the Christian community that are consistent with its biblical values, that are effective in raising consciousness, and that guide behavior in the world.  New meditations will continue to be added over time.

This is one of co-director Greg Johanson's sermons that uses the opportunity of a wedding to voice a message that attempts to promote a communal value that marriage should be seen as a spiritual growth tool for growing into higher levels of consciousness that will effect more compassionate action in the world.

This is APPENDIX D. for co-director Greg Johanson's dissertation, “Making Grace Specific,” in which he provides a self-test inventory for understanding one’s orientation to viewing the world characterologically.

This is APPENDIX C. for “Making Grace Specific.” It provides a self-test inventory for understanding one’s orientation to viewing the world theologically.

This is APPENDIX E. for “Making Grace Specific” which contains the data collection forms Greg used in his comparative study

This is APPENDIX B. for “Making Grace Specific” that provides the questions and responders to the oral interviews.

This essay is Co-Drector Greg Johanson's response to an article published in Contact:  The Interdisciplinary Journal of Pastoral Studies (No. 108, 1992:2) by Alan Billings, who teaches pastoral studies at Oxford.  Billings argued that pastors should not be trained as counselors.  Johanson’s response (No. 110, 1993:1) allowed him to outline a Christian theory of pastoral ministry and therapy that includes a theory of the imagination, the use of mindfulness in healing and levels of intervention.

Co-Director Greg Johanson's article uses a four-quadrant analysis to suggest that Democrats and Republicans offer half truths that ignore the four quadrants to bring us to a place of political gridlock, and that we need more inclusive cultural symbols to jump out of the current limiting debate.

This the summary chapter of  “Making Grace Specific,” a Ph.D. dissertation by Greg Johanson that uses an AQAL approach to spirituality and pastoral care, which includes proposals for new cultural conversations that support spiritual growth.