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Pray Your Rage

Can Christian Leaders Hope to Flourish?

El Encanto Latino: Un Regalo Para La Iglesia

The Latino Encanto: Gifts for the Church

Wholeness and Beauty in the Life of the Church

Spiritual Formation In My Mundane (Actual) Life

The Costco Run: Confronting My True Self

The Ongoing Journey of Becoming a Trauma-Informed Pastor

The Common Good: What is Freedom For?

Finding Our Voice: Introducing the 2024 Writing Fellows Cohort

Seek the Welfare of the City

Unexpected Disaster (The Broad Path)

A False Dichotomy: Am I Black or Am I Christian?

The Longest Night in the South: Winter is a Time for Enchantment

Theopoetics: Breathing Fresh Life into Faith Communities (Part 2)

Theopoetics: Breathing Fresh Life into Faith Communities (Part 1)

In the House of Belonging: Healing Church Hurt Through Church (Part 2)

In the House of Belonging: Healing Church Hurt Through Church (Part 1)

Embracing Your Vocation for the Second Half of Life

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

Disruption in the Life of the Church: Then

What Shall We Do With Our Anger?

Resting in the Divine Current

Our Deep Desire is to be Witnessed

A Poetic Theology of the Cross: A Conversation with Brian Zahnd and Mandy Smith

Heaven at Our Fingertips

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

To Keep A True Lent

Tired of Feeling Guilty for Feeling Tired

Reflectively Listening to a New Year

Advent: Watching and Waiting For God

A Thanksgiving Liturgy: Before A Meal

Embodied Spiritual Formation for the Mothering Pastor

Hungry People and Full People

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

When We Are a House Divided

The Speed of Love

Keep Yourselves in the Love of God

Finding Rest Amidst the Days of Labor

Interrogating ‘Tough Guy’ Masculinity

Why Go to Seminary?

The Gift Underneath Our Wrinkles: Is Aging Actually A Grace?

To Grow Nature Is To Encourage More Of It

Attending to God’s Presence While Watching My Garden

When a Day Off Isn’t Enough: Sabbatical Rest Sustains Pastoral Health for the Long-Haul

Emotions Signpost our Humanity in a Helpful Way

Pentecost DNA Forms Border-Crossing Christians

Five Ways Deconstruction Can Deepen Faith Without Devolving into Demolition

In Search of a Spiritual Practice for Losing Mothers

Is Spiritual Formation Biblical?

The Sights & Sounds of Awakenings 2023

Disruption Doesn’t Have The Last Word; New Life Does

On Orchids, Temporality, and Reading James K. A. Smith’s ’How to Inhabit Time’

Spiritual Formation as the Transfer of Tacit Knowledge

Returning Home: Finding Ourselves in the Story of the Prodigals

The Words We Store In Our Hearts
