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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

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

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

The Spiritual Practice of Summer

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

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

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

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

Grounding Our Gospel with Prayers for the Slain

Embracing Lent: The Art of Dying Well

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

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

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

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

Five Reasons Fruitfulness Is Better Than Productivity

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

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

Formation for a Newly Disrupted Generation

Beauty in the Scratches
