Formation

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

Formation

Everything Belongs: On Joining Missio Alliance and Other Questions of Discernment

Formation / Theology

At the Core of the Gospel: Participation in God’s Own Life

Formation

Grounding Our Gospel with Prayers for the Slain

Formation

Embracing Lent: The Art of Dying Well

Formation

Community Starts in the Heart: ‘Ligamenting’ Our Lives with the Spirit in Space and Time

Formation / Justice / Long-Form Series / Mission

A Season of Disruption: Links from Our First Long-Form Series

Formation

A Clear Vision for the Future: Re-Examining The Anabaptist Vision for Today (Pt. 1)

Formation / Theology

Wait for Each Other: Disrupting the Status Quo for the Sake of Solidarity (Pt. 1)

Formation

Five Reasons Fruitfulness Is Better Than Productivity

Formation

A Disruptive Incarnation: Reflecting on the Cost of Immanuel Drawing Near

Formation / Global Church

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

Culture / Formation

Formation for a Newly Disrupted Generation

Formation / Theology

Beauty in the Scratches

Culture / Formation

The Power of Truth-Telling and Lament

Formation / Theology

Spiritual Direction: Why We Need It

Culture / Formation / Theology

Lessons from the Desert: How Frustration with the Church May Be an Invitation of the Spirit

Formation

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

Formation

Worship that Forms and Transforms

Formation

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

Formation

The Gift of Presence in an Age of Distractions

Formation

Mending the Church by Expanding the Story of Jesus

Formation

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

Formation

The Benefit of Blindness

Formation

The Healing Touches We Need, Now More than Ever

Formation

My Spiritual Formation in the Wake of COVID

Formation

Surviving the Heat of the Crucible of Leadership

Formation

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

Formation

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

Formation

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

Formation

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

Formation

How Unresolved Emotional Pain Hinders Discipleship

Formation

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

Formation

Navigating Anxiety and Leading Others To Do the Same

Formation

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

Formation

An Advent Invitation: Beyond Sentimental Praise

Formation

An Advent Invitation: Come, Desire of Nations, Come

Formation

Allowing God to Love us Through Centering Prayer

Formation

An Advent Invitation: Leaning into Words of Prophecy