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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

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Dan White

The Weight of Ministry Leadership

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David Swanson

Christian Nationalism: What Dismantles It

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Miranda Zapor Cruz

When the Psalm Isn’t For Me

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MaryKate Morse

Prayer of Examen for a Reluctant Leader

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Sherin Swift

Breathing in a New Rule of Life

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Dennae Pierre

Anchoring Prayer for a Time Such as This

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Christina Stanton

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

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Rory Noland

Worship that Forms and Transforms

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Michelle Reyes

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

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Josiah Hoagland

The Gift of Presence in an Age of Distractions

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Amber Mann Riggs

Mending the Church by Expanding the Story of Jesus

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Richard Lee

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

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Ryan Post

The Benefit of Blindness

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J.R. Briggs

The Healing Touches We Need, Now More than Ever

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J.R. Briggs

My Spiritual Formation in the Wake of COVID

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Tod Bolsinger

Surviving the Heat of the Crucible of Leadership

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Missio Alliance

You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey Through Easter

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Missio Alliance

You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for Good Friday

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Missio Alliance

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

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Missio Alliance

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

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Missio Alliance

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

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Missio Alliance

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

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Ken Baugh

How Unresolved Emotional Pain Hinders Discipleship

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Missio Alliance

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

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sarah.j.warnock

Navigating Anxiety and Leading Others To Do the Same

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Missio Alliance

You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for Lent

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David Swanson

Enid Almanzar

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

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Christine Lee

Tod Bolsinger

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

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Diana Gruver

How We Are Formed by Stories of Depression

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Tod Bolsinger

Vulnerability, Resilience, and Partnership: Formation for Confronting Injustice

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Sherin Swift

Jay Y. Kim

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Part 3

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Chris Morton

An Advent Invitation: Beyond Sentimental Praise

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Lisa Rodriguez-Watson

An Advent Invitation: Come, Desire of Nations, Come

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Karina Kreminski

Allowing God to Love us Through Centering Prayer

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Helen Lee

An Advent Invitation: Leaning into Words of Prophecy

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Krystal Speed

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

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Jonny Morrison

The Colonization of Christian Leadership

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Derek Vreeland

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

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Rich Villodas

The Need for Deeply Formed Pastors

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Mandy Smith

Repenting of our Scapegoating

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Mandy Smith

What Our Current Wilderness Reveals About the Strongholds in Our Lives

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Bob Hyatt

Why Don’t We Pray?

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MaryKate Morse

The Formational Power of Reading: A Requirement for all Leaders

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Steve Cuss

Stopping the Spread of Anxiety as a Contagion

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Seth Richardson

The Racism in my Consumerism

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Jay Y. Kim

Renewal in the Valley of the Pandemic

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Tod Bolsinger

Navigating the Unknown: Adaptive Leadership in Highly Anxious Times

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Jared Patrick Boyd

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

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MaryKate Morse

Emotional Health at Such a Time as This