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Katelyn J. Dixon

Heaven at Our Fingertips

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MaryKate Morse

Missio Alliance

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

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Chris Kamalski

Missio Alliance

To Keep A True Lent

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Mandy Smith

Tired of Feeling Guilty for Feeling Tired

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Missio Alliance

Chris Kamalski

Reflectively Listening to a New Year

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Andrew Arndt

Advent: Watching and Waiting For God

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Missio Alliance

A Thanksgiving Liturgy: Before A Meal

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Alyssa Bell

Embodied Spiritual Formation for the Mothering Pastor

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Oneya Okuwobi

Hungry People and Full People

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Amy Davis Abdallah

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

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MaryKate Morse

When We Are a House Divided

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Andrew Arndt

The Speed of Love

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Jared Patrick Boyd

Keep Yourselves in the Love of God

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Matthew Watson

Finding Rest Amidst the Days of Labor

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Derek Vreeland

Interrogating ‘Tough Guy’ Masculinity

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MaryKate Morse

Why Go to Seminary?

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Isabel Tom

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

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Chris Kamalski

To Grow Nature Is To Encourage More Of It

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Chris Kamalski

Attending to God’s Presence While Watching My Garden

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Kris Beckert

God Finds Us In Nature: An Environment of Healing (Pt. 2)

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Kris Beckert

God Finds Us In Nature: A Place of Encounter (Pt. 1)

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Catherine McNiel

The Spiritual Practice of Summer

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Juliet Liu

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

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Sherin Swift

Emotions Signpost our Humanity in a Helpful Way

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Chris Rice

Pentecost DNA Forms Border-Crossing Christians

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Derek Vreeland

Five Ways Deconstruction Can Deepen Faith Without Devolving into Demolition

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MaryKate Morse

In Search of a Spiritual Practice for Losing Mothers

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Ken Van Vliet

Is Spiritual Formation Biblical?

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Missio Alliance

The Sights & Sounds of Awakenings 2023

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Lisa Rodriguez-Watson

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

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Karina Kreminski

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

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Ben Sternke

Spiritual Formation as the Transfer of Tacit Knowledge

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Rachel Pierce

Returning Home: Finding Ourselves in the Story of the Prodigals

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Morgan Strehlow

The Words We Store In Our Hearts

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Matt Tebbe

10 Things I’m (Still) Learning as a Pastor

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Gaby Viesca

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

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Ike Miller

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

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Ian McFadden

Grounding Our Gospel with Prayers for the Slain

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Andrew Arndt

Embracing Lent: The Art of Dying Well

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Joshua E. Livingston

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

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Chris Kamalski

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

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Gino Curcuruto

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

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Dennis R. Edwards

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

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Glenn Packiam

Five Reasons Fruitfulness Is Better Than Productivity

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Lisa Rodriguez-Watson

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

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Mandy Smith

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

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Rich Villodas

Formation for a Newly Disrupted Generation

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Karina Kreminski

Beauty in the Scratches

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Lisa Rodriguez-Watson

The Power of Truth-Telling and Lament

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MaryKate Morse

Spiritual Direction: Why We Need It

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Andrew Arndt

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

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Isabel Tom

How Loving the Old Will Strengthen Your Church

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Ben Sternke

Matt Tebbe

Reconstructing Faith After Deconstruction

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Chris Kamalski

How to Read Formationally: Reading with the Spirit of God

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Juliet Liu

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

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Michelle Reyes

Three Steps to Developing a Multicultural Liturgy in Your Church

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Gaby Viesca

Erasing Mary, The Mother of God

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Steve Noble

Is the Church Creating a Fragmented Spirituality in Emerging Adults?

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Justin Heap

Taw & Busk: Poetry For Holy Week

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Ian McFadden

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