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

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I Was Betrayed By the Church and Here’s What I Learned

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The Birth Pains of the North American Church

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Distracted by Digital? 3 Lenten Practices that Help You Turn Back to God

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Eight Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned from Trump

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The Most Important Pastoral Practice For Our Time

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Three Stories Prove Racial Reconciliation Can Happen (Not Easy)

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Asking Different Questions Changes Everything

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Practicing the Discipline of “Thin Slices of Joy” in 2017

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How to Break Through the Gender and Race Stalemates: 5 Methods

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Don’t Let Hate Mock the Song

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Top 10 Articles of 2016

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Gifting the Incarnation of Christ: A Spiritual Discipline for Christmas

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How Advent Teaches the Art of Mixed Emotions

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Asking “Who Is My Neighbor?” After the Election

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Christmas Day is a Sunday. Here’s a Liturgy to do at Home.

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The Uncomfortable Circumstance that God Uses to Form a People

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Awaiting the Lord, Not the President

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Find Restoration in Advent with this Devotional Guide

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The Hidden Potential in an Awkward Family Thanksgiving

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The Crisis That Makes Me Grieve the Evangelical Church

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Can Missional Evangelicals be Mystical? Another Way Forward After the Election

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Silence: The Unexpected, Prophetic Starting Point for Justice

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Wendell Berry to the Rescue: Reading Poetry in an Age of Angry Rhetoric

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Has the New Liturgical Movement Given Up On Music?

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Three Principles for Navigating Gender, Patriarchy, Binaries and Other Complex Issues in the Church (Gender and the Gospel Part 2)

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How to Read the Bible and Hear God’s Voice

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Racial Reconciliation May Not Be What You Think It Is

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God is Not Neutral: Are We on the Right Side?

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Is God Calling You to Go First?

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How to Keep the Voting Booth from Tearing us Apart

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Discipleship Doesn’t Work

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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