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A space for critical, theological engagement with the cultural trends and events of our day.

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Sleepless in the States: World Refugee Day and the Crisis at the Border

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Christendom is Crumbling and It’s Not Pretty: A True Story of Christian Persecution of Christians

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All Our Children: How Churches Can Respond to the Crisis at the Border

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Churches Who Support Foster Care Do These Five Things

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Should Men Mentor Women Even After #MeToo?

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Guns in the Kingdom of God: An Eschatological Appeal to End Gun Proliferation

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Wakanda, Blackness, and the Kingdom of God

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Parkland and the Continued Problem with Thoughts and Prayers

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Is Learning from Women Essential for Your Pastoral Competence?

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On the Eagles, the Super Bowl, and the Idols in All Our Cities

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The Silence Breakers: A Kairos Moment for the Church

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Essential Reads 2017: Seven New Books by Our Missio Alliance Authors

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The Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2017

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Reimagining Theological Education 500 Years After Calvin #AlwaysReforming

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The Pigtails that Sparked a Revolution #AlwaysReforming

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4 Ways Churches Can Respond Faithfully to #MeToo

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A Christian Male Response to #MeToo: Smash the Patriarchy

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4 Ways Your Church Can Keep the Dream Alive

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How #TakeAKnee Teaches Us To Be Christian in the New Normal of American Politics

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The Idolatry That #TakeAKnee Disrupts

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How the Church Can Combat the Idolatry of White Mythology

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In Times of Upheaval Women Shape New Landscapes

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A Letter to White Church Leaders from a Black Pastor

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A Lament to God for Christ the Immigrant

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Latino Pastor: The Challenge for White Evangelicals

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When Hope is Eclipsed, We Look Up

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A White Response to Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

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The False “Moral Authority” of Robert Jeffress

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A Congregational Prayer for Churches After Charlottesville

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When the Oppressor/Oppressed Mentality Undermines the Gospel

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How Do We Think About Affirmative Action as Christians?

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The Evolutionary Survival Instinct of Empire

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Looking Abroad to Find Redemption for the Bitterness in American Life

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6 Quotes from Men on Why the Church Needs Women

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The Travesty of Philando Castile, the Need for White Christian Repentance

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Girl Power!

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What Gorsuch’s Nomination Means for our Witness

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The Hospitality of Words: Three Tips for better Gender Relationships

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Why the Church Should Delete the Unfriend Button

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The Pub Moved Into the Church and the Church Left the Building

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In a Troubled World, Not of It

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Returning to The Shack

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Doing What Jesus Taught—Even on Social Media

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Living in the Political Spectrum

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The Church’s Transformative Power is Molecular

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A Fight for Nonviolent People

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Millennials are Leaving the Church, Who Cares?

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Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: A Reflection on This Last Day of Black History Month

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How the Gospel is Better than a Liberal Political Agenda

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Words of Terror: “Dad, I’m in love…”

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Five Real (and Risky) Ways to Start Peacemaking in Your Neighborhood

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Teenagers Sold “Like Pizza”—What Will Your Church Do?

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Martin Luther King Wasn’t Peaceful

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Insights from “Silence”—The Embrace of Despisement

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“Hidden Figures” Teaches How Injustice Remains Hidden

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“Silence” Plumbs the Depths of Suffering, Priesthood, and Apostasy

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Top 10 Articles of 2016

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Collateral Beauty and The Question of Suffering

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What if Judgement is Actually Good News?

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All the Noise About Shusaku Endo’s Silence