Mandy Smith

Missio Leading Voice

Originally from Australia, Mandy Smith is a pastor and author of The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry (IVP). Her latest book, Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western Culture will release in 2021 (Brazos). Mandy and her husband Jamie, a New Testament professor, live with their family in a little house where the teapot is always warm.

Books by the Author

The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry

Making a Mess and Meeting God: Unruly Ideas and Everyday Experiments for Worship

Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western Culture

Culture

A Manifesto to Heal My Writer Heart

Formation / Global Church

We’re All Pioneers Now: Skills for the Unchartered Landscape of the 21st-Century Church

Culture / Theology

Learning from the Margins: The Difference Between Human and Kingdom Power

Culture / Global Church

Are We Underdogs or Overlords? How Western Christians Can Lose Power Gracefully

Witness

Understanding the Whole Good News of the Gospel

Culture

A Nation Waits: Seeking a Center of Peace

Formation

Repenting of our Scapegoating

Formation

What Our Current Wilderness Reveals About the Strongholds in Our Lives

Witness

The Power of Holy Mischief in Times of Crisis

Formation

Playfulness as an Antidote to Anxiety

Culture

Dismantling the Bombshell Lie that Beauty is Power

Formation

The Difference Between Christian Institutions and the Kingdom

Culture

The Gift of Cross-Gender Leadership

Formation

Meeting God in our Deepest Places

Formation

The Impact of Western Ego on the Church

Formation

Faith Without Emotion is Dead: Avoiding False Choices When Leaders Fall

Formation

The Flip Side of Longing

Witness

When to Loosen Our Tongues: How Testimonies Spark Revival

Theology

We are Not Overcome! Calling the Church to Her True Vocation

Culture

Grieving for Rachel as Rachel Would Grieve

Formation

Miracles in the Headlines

Formation

Identity Politics and the False Self

Formation

When the Church Seems Powerless—What If It’s Our Doing?

Awakenings / Culture / Formation / Theology / Witness

14 Dynamic Leaders of Color and Women You Should Know About

Formation

What If the Pain Women Experience in the Church Better Equips Them to Lead?

Theology

I Don’t Have Time to Talk About “Women’s Issues”

Formation

The Emotional Issue that Gets in the Way of Women’s Leadership

Formation

What I Long to Say to My Brothers: “I Release You”

Witness

Setting Aside the World’s Categories: One Pastor’s Approach to Politics

Culture

Pastoring in a Culture of Independence and Fragility: Reflections from Parenting

Formation

The Surprising Solution When Gender Dynamics Seem to Be Destroying the Church

News

Telling a Better Story of Gender Dynamics: #ChurchTogether 2018

5 years ago

Culture

How A Theology of the City Helps the Whole Church: A Review of Urban Spirituality by Karina Kreminski

Theology

Why Theology Must Take on Flesh and Bone and Breathe into Everyday Life

Witness

6 Ways Christians Speak A New World Into Existence

Formation

Overcoming Scarcity Thinking in Post-Christian Mission (A Lesson from Gandalf)

Formation

The Surprising Power of Those on the Margins (and how it can be abused)

Formation

The Defiant Act of Prophetic “Foolishness” in Serious Times

Formation

What I’m Doing to Kindle My Hope That God is Making All Things New: Will You Join Me?

Formation

Feel Powerless in Your Efforts to Invite Minority Voices? You May be Closer to a Way Forward Than You Think!

Formation

Here’s How You Can Guide Your Church through Gender Role Conversations

Witness

SheLeads because SheFollows

News

Watch: Five Voices of a Growing Movement for Women and Men Leading Together

6 years ago

Culture

In Times of Upheaval Women Shape New Landscapes

Witness

The Real Cost of Female Leadership in Dollars (and Friends)

News

SheLeads is happening on October 28… and 29… and 30 and…

6 years ago

News

SheLeads Registration is Open!

6 years ago

News

Announcing: 2017 SheLeads Presenters

6 years ago

Culture

6 Quotes from Men on Why the Church Needs Women

Theology

How to Celebrate the Church’s Birthday through Art

Formation

The Birth Pains of the North American Church

Theology

Wildly Tempting: How to win the war of temptation

Culture

The Church’s Transformative Power is Molecular

Culture

How the Gospel is Better than a Liberal Political Agenda

Formation

How to Break Through the Gender and Race Stalemates: 5 Methods

Formation

How Advent Teaches the Art of Mixed Emotions

Formation

Christmas Day is a Sunday. Here’s a Liturgy to do at Home.

Formation

The Hidden Potential in an Awkward Family Thanksgiving

Formation

Emptying Ourselves to Become as Human as Christ

Culture

New Opportunities in a Post-9/11 World