College Programs Wed Religion and Management
December 17, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
Several university programs, all started in the past few years, are helping churches incorporate good management practices into their ministries, reports The New York Times.
This fall, Boston College began offering a pastoral ministry degree with a concentration in church management. It also offers a dual degree in which students earn both the pastoral-ministry degree and a master’s of business administration. Similar programs exist at the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary’s University in Minnesota. Villanova University plans to start an online-only program next year.
The programs do not teach people to run churches like businesses but to make sure that church leaders are prepared to manage employees well and handle finances responsibly, said scholars who run them.
Read The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s article about church-management programs.
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