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Why Haven’t We Made More Progress?

Every Bombed Village Is My Hometown

Standing in the Middle of the World: A Bicultural Story of Finding Belonging

Assimilation Displaces, and the Church is Complicit

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 2)

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 1)

The Essential Need for Integrity in Leaders and Systems (Part 2)

The Essential Need for Integrity in Leaders and Systems (Part 1)

The Church is Strangely Fascinated with Youthfulness

The Elimination of Friction: An Opposing Perspective Is Deeply Formative

Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression

The Spiritual Discipline of Ignoring White Christianity

Q&A with Dr. MaryKate Morse: On Hierarchy, Authority, and Stewarding Power Well

Awakening to Creation is Key for Flourishing Churches in Post-Christendom

Hierarchy: A Word Christian Leaders Can Confuse with the Dark and Love to Hate

The Blessing of Discomfort: A Global Church Perspective

Injecting the Tonic of Humility: Could Political Healing Come From An Unexpected Quarter?

I Need A Good Shout!

The State of the Church in America Through the Lens of Contemplation

Informed But Not Transformed: The Power of Art in Our Formation (Pt. 2)

Informed But Not Transformed: Critiquing the Banking System of Education (Pt. 1)

The Disruption of Life

2023: A Year In Review

Politic, Not Party

Reflectively Listening to a New Year

Rachel Weeping for Her Children

Advent: Expressible Joy

Advent: The Nexus of Humility, Justice, and Joy

The Church Needs Women’s Lofty Dreams

Hungry People and Full People

Holding Vigil: Beneath a Binary Perspective on the Israeli War in Gaza

Empty Nest: How a Ritual Helps Us Process the Losses and Gains of Our Kids Leaving Home

Disrupting Legacies of White Supremacy in the Church

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Nine Lessons For Christian Leaders (Who Also Happen To Be Female)

Loneliness is the Penalty for Women Leaders

Finding Rest Amidst the Days of Labor

Metanoia: Wholehearted Change in Unprecedented Times

Dr. King Shines a Light Forward for Justice Work Today (‘I Have A Dream’ 60th Anniversary Version)

Negotiating Difference (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 3)

Interrogating ‘Tough Guy’ Masculinity

The American Church: Has God Left The Building?

Excessive Spirituality (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 2)

Surprised by God at Tables: Extending the Eucharist Into the Neighborhood (Pt. 2)

Origin Stories Matter: On Juneteenth

The Three Waves Metaphor: How Culture Shapes the Way We Work for Justice

Searching for a Robust Spirituality in a Doomscrolling World (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 1)

Dr. King Shines a Light Forward for Justice Work Today

Five Ways Deconstruction Can Deepen Faith Without Devolving into Demolition

The Sights & Sounds of Awakenings 2023

Recent Developments in the CRT Culture Wars

The Words We Store In Our Hearts

Practicing Pilgrimage

A Manifesto to Heal My Writer Heart

Economics Within the Reality of the New Creation (Captive to Capitalism, Part 4)

A Clear Vision for the Future: The Corrective Lens of Black Theology (Pt. 2)

Truth-Telling: A Just Movement Toward Human Flourishing (More Than Words, Pt. 1)

Loving One’s Enemy as an Act of Liberation (Loving Our Enemies, Part 2)

Is Loving One’s Enemies in a World of Trauma Another Form of Oppression? (Loving Our Enemies, Part 1)
