Cases

This site is now home to a number of cases that have been submitted to ACT over the years. Individual cases have been organized alphabetically below. The edition of JCT cases were published in is noted in parentheses when possible. The cases are also available by perusing the digital copies of the Journal for Case Teaching that are available on this site’s Journal page. Information about the availability of other cases can also be found below.

Copyright Information: Feel free to browse through the cases and download them. Cases can be photocopied for classroom use. Copyright is held by The Case Study Institute.

• The 800 Pound Gorilla — Tanzerina Kennebrew (JCT 13)
• The Agenda — Christine Gudorf (JCT 6)
• AIDS Protection — For Whom? — Alice Frazer Evans (JCT 1)
• Another Test? — Sandra Magie (JCT 4)
• Asia Resources, Inc. — Alan Neely (JCT 6)
• Associate’s Dilemma — Kevin Lawson (JCT 5)
• Baby Boy Hernandez — William Bristol & Alice Frazer Evans (JCT 10)
• Bad Visit; Good Visit? — Efrain Agosto (JCT 15)
• Banjos or Bach? — Robert Stivers (JCT 6)
• Beyond the Battle — Robert Evans & Alice Frazer Evans (JCT 5)
• Blind Ambition: The Case of Jephthah and His Sacrifice (Judges 10:17-11:40) — Kon Yang (JCT 14)
• A Broken Pastor — Diane Chandler (JCT 10)
• By the Sword — Nazir Masih (JCT 6)
• The Call — Alan Neely (JCT 9)
• Call to a Strange Land — Alice Frazer Evans (JCT 6)
• Call to Prayer — Alice Frazier Evans (JCT 11)
• Called to Ministry? — Kenneth Swetland (JCT 8)
• Calvary at the Crossroads — William Pyle (JCT 4)
• Camp Issues — Cheryl L. Robinson (JCT 15)
• Can a Woman Lead the Church — Premkumar Soans (JCT 7)
• Can Mrs. Rose C. Teach the Junior Girls Sunday School Class? — Donald Hohensee (JCT 1)
• The Canterbury Trail — Douglas Shantz (JCT 1)
• Carl Phillips Was Fired — Robert Evans & Alice Frazer Evans (JCT 7)
• The Case of the Conflicting “Isms” — Elizabeth Patterson (JCT 4)
• Cats and Coons — Robert Stivers (JCT 7)
• Changing the Face of the Parish — Ronald White, Jr. (JCT 5)
• Charles Chauncy and New World Concerns — Jeremy Reddy (JCT 1)
• Children Have to Be Taught — Alan Neely (JCT 12)
• Chloe’s Concerns — Efrain Agosto (JCT 15)
• The Christian Church—Inclusive? — Junia Wilson (JCT 10)
• Church Camp: Counselor or Assistant Cook?: An Indo-Canadian Experience — David Daniel (JCT 10)
• A Church for All People — Garnett Foster (JCT 5)
• “Come Holy Spirit(s)” — Alan Neely (JCT 7)
• Conflicting Loyalties — Susan Emilsen (JCT 7)
• Cooling of the “Spirits” — Marjorie Nunes (JCT 15)
• Could I Have Done More? — Lyle Pointer (JCT 8)
• Crisis at Bethany — Dudley Rose (JCT 14)
• Crossroads — Elizabeth Wieman & Alice Frazer Evans (JCT 1)
• A Custody Case? — Sally Jacobs, edited by M.B. Handspicker (JCT 4)
• D.Min. Dilemma — Erskine Clarke (JCT 6)
• Dan’s Little Bomb — Christine Gudorf (JCT 5)
• A Dane with the Danes or “Akvavit Indeed”— Leland Elhard (JCT 8)
• “Denied–Bad Credit!” — Mark Stivers (JCT 6)
• Discovering New Images — Cathie Kelsey (JCT 15)
• Does Hospitality Begin at Home? — William Emilsen (JCT 10)
• “Don’t Come Over and Help Us!” — Alan Neely (JCT 8)
• Down in the Valley — Judy Chan (JCT 9)
• Dream Job — Craig Blomberg (JCT 5)
• Evangelicals in a New Key — Robert Stivers (JCT 4)
• Evangelism, Discipleship, and Culture — Josephine Holmes (JCT 12)
• Faith, Family, and a Musical Future — Rudolph D. Gonzalez (JCT 11)
• A Family Decision — Tom Tuma (JCT 11)
• The Fate of Té Bouké — Lionel Derenoncourt (JCT 7)
• Fire the Minister? — Karl Peters (JCT 8)
• Flat on His Face — Lemuel Shaffer & Hugo Venegas (JCT 4)
• For the Life of the Church — Alice Frazer Evans (JCT 7)
• The Gift of a Broken Body — Russell Willis (JCT 7)
• Giving Thanks — Alice Frazer Evans (JCT 8)
• Globalization Gone Wild — The Case Study Institute (JCT 5)
• God Biggie Biggie — Arthur Holder (JCT 4)
• A Good Death for Gleason? — John Kilner (JCT 6)
• Good Morning, Sarah — Dolores Lee McCabe (JCT 8)
• Green Pastures — Elizabeth Wieman (JCT 7)
• Harbor Headache — Lisa Hopkinson (JCT 10)
• The Healthy Christian Life — Mary Agria & L. Shannon Jung (JCT 5)
• Honor Thy Father — Allan Armstrong-Patriquin (JCT 4)
• In the Eyes of the Lord — Robert DeVries (JCT 7)
• Ingat Ka, Pastor – Be Careful, Pastor — Joyce Ann Mercer (JCT 12)
• Is “Good Faith” Good Enough? — Leland Elhard (JCT 10)
• Is the Honeymoon Over? — Richard Stewart (JCT 10)
• It Must Not Be So Among You — Jeanene Reese (JCT 14)
• Jakub’s Wake-Up Call — William O’Brien (JCT 8)
• Job Search in Montreal — Dorothy Jean McNab (JCT 10)
• John Quincy Adams and the Spanish Slave Mutiny — Christopher Smith (JCT 1)
• Law and Order — Leland Elhard (JCT 6)
• Let’s Close the Sunday School! — Douglass Lewis (JCT 7)
• The Lord’s Supper Turned Into Disaster — Eung Chun Park (JCT 9)
• The Man Born Blind — James Resseguie (JCT 8)
• A Matter of Statistics — Marjorie Hall Davis (JCT 4)
• A Metro Strategy — Robert Evans (JCT 10)
• Ministry of Welcome and Recovery — Kathy Winings (JCT 13)
• More Questions Than Answers — Anne Reissner (JCT 4)
• Mother, May I Go? — Alan Neely (JCT 11)
• The Multiple Use Building — Cathie Kelsey (JCT 15)
• The New Pastor and the Choir Director — Brid Long (JCT 7)
• A Night Different from All Other Nights — Sharon Ringe (JCT 10)
• Not in My Back Yard — Warren Dennis (JCT 9)
• Nowhere to Lay His Head — Philip Devenish (JCT 1)
• Oil and the Caribou People — Robert Stivers (JCT 5)
• One God Too Many: Jeremiah and the Worship of the Queen of Heaven (Jeremiah 44) — Mark Hamilton (JCT 14)
• Oxford 1937: Are They Right? — Alan Neely (JCT 11)
• Paper-Thin Concern — Russell West (JCT 10)
• Pastor Under Attack — Douglas Wingeier (JCT 1)
• Phoebe Palmer and the Ministry of Women — Susie Stanley (JCT 1)
• “Phyllis Crowder is Pregnant!” — Alan Neely (JCT 8)
• Place for Reconciliation — Robert Evans (JCT 8A)
• The Plight of Donar’s Oak — Diedra Kriewald (JCT 13)
• Power for Peace — Robert Stivers (JCT 1)
• Practical Theology in the Red Light District — Joyce Anne Mercer (JCT 11)
• Prairie Storm — JoAnn Post (JCT 7)
• The Prayer of Jabez — Kon Yang (JCT 12)
• Prejudice in Academia — John McNab (JCT 10)
• Prolonging Life? — James Hofrenning (JCT 1)
• The Queen of Peace — Margaret Page (JCT 6)
• Reasonable Request? — Lora Gross (JCT 5A)
• Rehoboam: Vulnerable or Vicious? — Carl Schultz (JCT 4)
• Resist or Surrender? — Gus Konkel (JCT 1)
• The Righteousness of God, Judgment, and Pauline Polity — Stanley Saunders (JCT 7)
• Sacred Sites — Alice Frazer Evans (JCT 8)
• Second-Class Missionary? — William R. O’Brien (JCT 11)
• Setting the Captives Free — Anne Reissner (JCT 12)
• Sex and the Single Person — Christine Gudorf (JCT 10)
• “Should I Accept?” — Alan Neely (JCT 7)
• Should I Baptize Them… Now? — Alan Neely (JCT 15)
• Should I Burn Incense at Grandpa’s Grave? — Henry Smith (JCT 4)
• Should the Church Start a Preschool? — Barbara Anne Keely (JCT 13)
• Showing Your True Colors — David Stubbs (JCT 14)
• Shrimp Futures — Alice Frazer Evans (JCT 6)
• Sin in the Church — Wimon Walker (JCT 13)
• Sing Us One of Your Songs, Habakkuk — Randall J. Pannell (JCT 11)
• The Sinner’s Wealth — Barbara Blodgett (JCT 11)
• Slave, Obey Your Masters — Henry Smith (JCT 4)
• So Close — Marjorie Hall Davis (JCT 6)
• The Sounds of Silence — David Benson (JCT 5)
• The Staples Community Church Crisis — Gaylord Noyce (JCT 4)
• Struggle and Consent — Donald Irvine & Wendy Fletcher-Marsh (JCT 5)
• Stuffing the Ballot Box — Russell Burrill (JCT 14)
• Text and Context — James Pankraniz (JCT 5)
• They Might Ruin the Whole Community — Kadarmanto Hardjowasito (JCT 12)
• To Be or Not to Be a Vegetarian — Laura Stivers (JCT 13)
• To Go Home Again — Erskine Clarke (JCT 4)
• To Leave or Not to Leave? — Samuel Schutz (JCT 6)
• To Lecture, or Not to Lecture — Tim Sensing (JCT 15)
• To Our Own Land — Alice Frazer Evans (JCT 5)
• To Read or Not To Read? — Carl Schultz (JCT 4)
• Troubled Baptismal Waters — Richard Cunningham (JCT 15)
• The Troubled Internship — Donna Duensing (JCT 8)
• Turner Greene — Dieter Hessel (JCT 5)
• Unhappy Hooker — John Luoma (JCT 15)
• The Very Last Thing — Marjorie Hall Davis (JCT 4)
• Vision Fatigue — Russell West (JCT 10)
• Walking Away — Lemuel Shaffer & Hugo Venegas (JCT 4)
• Walnut Avenue Church — Robert Ackerman (JCT 1)
• What a Difference a Day Makes — Stephanie Croom (JCT 12)
• What About the Elephant? — W. Michael Smith (JCT 11)
• What God Has Joined — Christine Gudorf (JCT 5)
• What Is God’s Will? — Stephen Lim (JCT 12)
• What Kind of God? — Karl Peters (JCT 9)
• What Should I Do? — Dorothy Jean McNab (JCT 10)
• What Should I Say to Her? — Jeanene Reese (JCT 12)
• When in Northumbria, Do as the Romans Do? — Jeff Childers (JCT 9)
• Where are the Kitchen Keys? — Lemuel Shaffer & Hugo Venegas (JCT 4)
• Where is the Real Dis-Ease? — Jeanene Reese (JCT 15)
• Who Gets the Job? — Elizabeth Patterson (JCT 4)
• Who Will Pastor Our Churches? — G. Douglass Lewis (JCT 6)
• Whose Sermon Is It? — John Tornfelt (JCT 14)
• Why Globalization? — Richard Vieth (JCT 5)
• Why Me and Not Her? — Ros Macgregor (JCT 10)
• The Witness — Lewin Williams (JCT 6)
• Wittenberg 1934 — Craig Nessan (JCT 9)
• A Woman’s Place — Douglas Shantz (JCT 1)
• “You Must Purify This House” — Alan Neely (JCT 7)
• “You’re Fired!” — Kenneth Swetland (JCT 8)

Additional case studies through 1995 are held at the Yale Divinity School Library Case Clearing House. Cases published since 1995 are not distributed through the Case Clearing House since they are available in the Journal for Case Teaching and can be obtained via the normal Interlibrary Loan process.

Cases can be ordered by title through the Case Clearing House via mail, fax, or electronic order form. Telephone orders are not accepted. Normally, cases will be mailed within twenty-four hours of receipt of the order. There is a $5.00 per case fee for items sent via conventional mail; the fee for Express mail or fax delivery is $10.00. These fees include the right to duplicate the case for classroom use. The Case Clearing House is located at:

Yale Divinity School Library
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
Fax: (203) 432-3906