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Spiritual Direction: Why We Need It

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

How Loving the Old Will Strengthen Your Church

Reconstructing Faith After Deconstruction

How to Read Formationally: Reading with the Spirit of God

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

Three Steps to Developing a Multicultural Liturgy in Your Church

Erasing Mary, The Mother of God

Is the Church Creating a Fragmented Spirituality in Emerging Adults?

Taw & Busk: Poetry For Holy Week

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

The Weight of Ministry Leadership

Christian Nationalism: What Dismantles It

When the Psalm Isn’t For Me

Prayer of Examen for a Reluctant Leader

Breathing in a New Rule of Life

Anchoring Prayer for a Time Such as This

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

Worship that Forms and Transforms

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

The Gift of Presence in an Age of Distractions

Mending the Church by Expanding the Story of Jesus

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

The Benefit of Blindness

The Healing Touches We Need, Now More than Ever

My Spiritual Formation in the Wake of COVID

Surviving the Heat of the Crucible of Leadership

You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey Through Easter

You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for Good Friday

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

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

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

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

How Unresolved Emotional Pain Hinders Discipleship

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

Navigating Anxiety and Leading Others To Do the Same

You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for Lent

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

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

How We Are Formed by Stories of Depression

Vulnerability, Resilience, and Partnership: Formation for Confronting Injustice

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Part 3

An Advent Invitation: Beyond Sentimental Praise

An Advent Invitation: Come, Desire of Nations, Come

Allowing God to Love us Through Centering Prayer

An Advent Invitation: Leaning into Words of Prophecy

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

The Colonization of Christian Leadership

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

The Need for Deeply Formed Pastors

Repenting of our Scapegoating

What Our Current Wilderness Reveals About the Strongholds in Our Lives

Why Don’t We Pray?

The Formational Power of Reading: A Requirement for all Leaders

Stopping the Spread of Anxiety as a Contagion

The Racism in my Consumerism

Renewal in the Valley of the Pandemic

Navigating the Unknown: Adaptive Leadership in Highly Anxious Times

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