The Upward Call: Spiritual Formation and the Holy Life

Four gifted communicators present a unique marriage between the Wesleyan teaching of holiness and the spiritual formation tradition. The result is a compelling expression of what it means to heed the call to a life of growing Christlikeness. Paper.

E. Dee Freeborn is Professor of Pastoral Theology at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, where he serves as director of field education. He teaches spiritual formation in the classroom, as well as in local churches and in a variety of retreat and conference settings. Janine Tartaglia-Metcalf served several years as a television news reporter in southern California. She is now an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, and adjunct professor at Nazarene Theological Seminary, and evangelist. She is a frequent speaker on spiritual formation in workshops, retreats, revivals, and college conventions. Morris A. Weigelt is professor of New Testament at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City. He is well known for teaching, writing, and modeling spiritual formation and the holy life.