Formation

A space for reflections and perspectives on the task of forming Christian disciples and leaders.

Formation / Witness

How Loving the Old Will Strengthen Your Church

Formation / Uncategorized

Reconstructing Faith After Deconstruction

Formation

How to Read Formationally: Reading with the Spirit of God

Formation / Liturgy

Contemplative Spirituality Provides a Trauma-Informed Approach to Growing Healthier Churches

Formation

Three Steps to Developing a Multicultural Liturgy in Your Church

Formation / Theology

Erasing Mary, The Mother of God

Formation

Is the Church Creating a Fragmented Spirituality in Emerging Adults?

Formation / Liturgy

Taw & Busk: Poetry For Holy Week

Formation

Fascism, Pandemic, and Apathy: How Christians Led in Past Crises

Formation

The Weight of Ministry Leadership

Culture / Formation

Christian Nationalism: What Dismantles It

Formation

When the Psalm Isn’t For Me

Formation

Prayer of Examen for a Reluctant Leader

Formation

Breathing in a New Rule of Life

Formation

Anchoring Prayer for a Time Such as This

Formation

Leaning on the Great Healer in Times of Anniversary-Effect Trauma

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Worship that Forms and Transforms

Formation

Pastors May Be Close to Burn Out. Here’s How to Care for Them.

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The Gift of Presence in an Age of Distractions

Formation

Mending the Church by Expanding the Story of Jesus

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Pastors, You Can Leave—So, Feel Free to Stay

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The Benefit of Blindness

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The Healing Touches We Need, Now More than Ever

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My Spiritual Formation in the Wake of COVID

Formation

Surviving the Heat of the Crucible of Leadership

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You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey Through Easter

Formation

You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for Good Friday

Formation

You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for the Sixth Sunday of Lent

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You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for the Fifth Sunday of Lent

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You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

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You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for the Third Sunday in Lent

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How Unresolved Emotional Pain Hinders Discipleship

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You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for the Second Sunday in Lent

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Navigating Anxiety and Leading Others To Do the Same

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You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for Lent

Formation

Resilience, Race, and Resistance: Plenary Highlights, Part 2

Formation

Resilience, Race, and Resistance: Plenary Highlights, Part 1

Formation

How We Are Formed by Stories of Depression

Formation

Vulnerability, Resilience, and Partnership: Formation for Confronting Injustice

Formation

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Part 3

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An Advent Invitation: Beyond Sentimental Praise

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An Advent Invitation: Come, Desire of Nations, Come

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Allowing God to Love us Through Centering Prayer

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An Advent Invitation: Leaning into Words of Prophecy

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An Advent Invitation: Recalling God’s Promises with Every Breath

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The Colonization of Christian Leadership

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Pandemics Aren’t So Unprecedented: What We Can Learn from Early Christians

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The Need for Deeply Formed Pastors

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Repenting of our Scapegoating

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What Our Current Wilderness Reveals About the Strongholds in Our Lives

Formation

Why Don’t We Pray?

Formation

The Formational Power of Reading: A Requirement for all Leaders

Formation

Stopping the Spread of Anxiety as a Contagion

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The Racism in my Consumerism

Formation

Renewal in the Valley of the Pandemic

Formation

Navigating the Unknown: Adaptive Leadership in Highly Anxious Times

Formation

This Present Desert: God’s Invitation to Solitude and Slowness

Formation

Emotional Health at Such a Time as This

Formation

Pastoring in a Pandemic: Real-Life Reflections

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The Time Is Now for Breakthrough