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Why Your Church Resists the Change that Could Save It—and What to Do About It

Midterm Elections: Let Us Pray

Eugene Peterson’s Long Obedience in the Same Direction: A Personal Tribute

Everything a Gift: Remembering Eugene Peterson

The Emotional Issue that Gets in the Way of Women’s Leadership

Repenting As We Go: A 9-Part Podcast Series on Women and Men Leading Together in the Church

Why Theological Education Must Include Intentional Learning Communities

3 Key Aspects of Mentoring Across the Gender Gap for the Sake of Mission

Four Things I Need to Hear From My Sisters in Christ

What I Long to Say to My Brothers: “I Release You”

Four Ways to Walk in Love as Resurrection People

Faith Under Construction: The Upside Down Gathering in Chicago

Your Shalom Come: Where Can Hope Be Found in Our Day?

The Surprising Solution When Gender Dynamics Seem to Be Destroying the Church

7 Questions All Pastors Need to Ask Themselves Post-Hybels

4 Practices for Discipling Kids Who Live Justly

How the Way We Talk About Sin Can Keep Us From Being Good People

A Remedy for Your Exhaustion

Is (Healthy) Cross-Gendered Ministry Even Possible?

We’ve Gotten Salvation All Wrong: Let’s Reclaim the Heart of Christian Discipleship

When Ministry Leads to Resentment – What Do You Do?

Prayer as Liminal Space with Alice Fryling

Overcoming Scarcity Thinking in Post-Christian Mission (A Lesson from Gandalf)

Evangelism, Discipleship, and Spiritual Formation: Which is What?

The Way of the Cross: A Meditative Guide for Holy Week

The Surprising Power of Those on the Margins (and how it can be abused)

A Lenten Prayer of Repentance for When We Have Failed Our Neighborhood

The Defiant Act of Prophetic “Foolishness” in Serious Times

American Christians: Are We Being Formed by Christ or Capitalism?

In A World of Enmity, Christ Calls us To Empathy – Here’s What We Have to Know and Do

What I’m Doing to Kindle My Hope That God is Making All Things New: Will You Join Me?

A Lenten Journey for Healing Gender Relations

Self-Awareness and the Enneagram: A Response to Kevin DeYoung

Why I Needed Women Seminary Professors: A Response to John Piper

Why John Piper Needs Help from Female Seminary Professors

Feel Powerless in Your Efforts to Invite Minority Voices? You May be Closer to a Way Forward Than You Think!

To Leaders in 2018: Why You Must Lead Us in Lament (and How)

Finding the Strength to Love from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Trinitarian Vision of Spiritual Transformation

Essential Reads 2017: Seven New Books by Our Missio Alliance Authors

Is Your Pastor Shaped More by a Tablet or a Table?

The Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2017

3 Formational Practices for Difficult Conversations Every Church Can Learn

Here’s How You Can Guide Your Church through Gender Role Conversations

Advent: Four Elements of “Wait Training”

From #RubyWooPilgrimage to a Pilgrimage of the Ordinary

Are Thoughts and Prayers Enough for a Troubled World?

Try This Strategy: Start With Twelve

This Is What A Leader Looks Like

What to Do When You Hear “Doesn’t the Bible Teach Against Women Pastors?”

Moving from One-on-One Mentorship Toward Inclusive & Effective Leadership

Communion, a Counter-Monument

9 Ridiculously Practical Ways for Male Leaders to Empower Female Leaders in the Church

Why Christians Are Incapable of Racial Healing

Four Ways Church Attendance Hinders Mission

The Drug Dealer of Choice for Anxious Pastors

These Six Questions Reveal How Well You are Engaged in Your Neighborhood

Served or Serving: Curing the Sickness That’s Killing The Church

What Happens if You Only Evaluate Your Ministry?
