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

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Vocation: Five Tips for Discovering What to Do With Your Life

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Emptying Ourselves to Become as Human as Christ

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Nine Reasons Christians Fail to Love Their Neighbors

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An Ancient Discipling Approach that Works 365 Days a Year

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Pastors: The CEO Has to Go

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Watch: Race Matters Q & A with Dennis Edwards and Greg Boyd

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6 Reasons Why Churches Aren’t Transforming Minds (and What to Do About It!)

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Six Quotes From Jesus You Might be Reading Wrong

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Are You Ready for the Jerk Apocalypse?

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Four Practices that Turn ‘Loving Your Neighborhood’ Into a Spiritual Discipline

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The Spirit Is Not Optional: Embracing the Danger and the Comfort of the Third Person of God

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Why Church Death is Healthy

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Loving My Neighbor Without Justifying Myself

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Why I Left the Band of Brothers for a Blessed Alliance

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God’s Surprises and Female Harvesters

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Can A Female Preacher (or President) Be Herself?

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Three Steps Churches Have to Take if They Want More Diverse Leadership

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Black & White Bible, Black & Blue Wife—A Review

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Why Women Don’t Plant Churches (and How to Change It)

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“Band of Brothers”: The Very Young, Very Male Face of Boston’s Church Planting Movement

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A Weary Traveler’s Confession and Reflection: The Story our ‘Bodies’ Tell

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A Prayer for Peace

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How Do You Lead Without Being Toxic?

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Four Practices to Help Your Church Grieve Personal and National Tragedy

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Reclaiming God’s Intent for Sabbath

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Preached to Death

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Avoiding the Blow-down from Helicopter Pastoring

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Four Images of Jesus’ Ministry that Would Bomb on Social Media

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Writing as a Spiritual Discipline

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Who Do We Get to Hate?

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Stop Blaming Venus and Mars. We’re All From Earth

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Do You Know Jesus Like You Know a Presidential Candidate?

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Book Review: The Dusty Ones by A.J. Swoboda

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Unformation: Learning to Experience God in My Darkness

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Mentor for Life—A Review

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A Way Beyond Spiritual Hoarding

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Revival at the Margins: How Emptiness Prepares us for the Spirit

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The Unexpected Value of Insignificance

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7 Ways Missional Spirituality is Different than Christian Spirituality

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Jeremiah vs. Augustine: What Mysticism Says About Goodness & Depravity

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How to go from “Worst-Case Scenario” as a Parent to a Transformational Encounter with Jesus

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Spiritual Formation: Conformed to the image of Christ for what purpose?

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The Worst Best Monday Ever

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Leading Worship as Political Training

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When Minorities Lead: One Woman’s Wrestling with “Oppressor” and “Oppressed”

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Four Everyday Disciplines You Must Have to Experience Community

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Stop Using The Word Community Unless You Mean It

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Why Donald Trump is Good for Evangelicals

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Stupid is Repairable: Growing as Thoughtful Followers of Jesus

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When Male Leadership is Privileged

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Super Tuesday and Christians: A New Political Consciousness for Churches

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A Parable for Lent

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Warning: You May Have to Go Through This to Find Grace

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Lent: How to Find Freedom the Way that Jesus Did

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Theology on Mission #21 Lent: Punishment or Preparation?

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A Simple, Communal Lent Journey

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I’m a Woman, and my Church Didn’t Know What To Do With That

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Our “NOT Going Away” Party: Celebrating the Sending and the Staying

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Let 2016 Be the Year of Prayer

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It’s about Jesus: No, I Lied. It’s about Me!