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Rich Villodas

3 Essentials for Pastoral Preaching

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Sean Palmer

White-Out: Going Deeper, Reading Wider

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

SheLeads: An Awakenings Syllabus to #AmplifyWomen

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Derek Vreeland

4 Essential Practices for Spiritual Formation

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Seth Richardson

Violence is a Formation Issue

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Kris Beckert

Staying Woke After an Awakening

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Tara Beth Leach

The Real Mission of Worship

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Ruthie Johnson

Learning to Hear the Holy Spirit

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Derek Vreeland

Five Pieces of Christ-Centered Wisdom For a Foolish Age

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Kelly Ladd Bishop

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

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Mandy Smith

The Birth Pains of the North American Church

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Karina Kreminski

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

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Kris Beckert

Eight Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned from Trump

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Seth Richardson

The Most Important Pastoral Practice For Our Time

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Lesa Engelthaler

Three Stories Prove Racial Reconciliation Can Happen (Not Easy)

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Karen Wilk

Asking Different Questions Changes Everything

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Karina Kreminski

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

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Mandy Smith

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

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Derek Vreeland

Don’t Let Hate Mock the Song

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Missio Alliance

Top 10 Articles of 2016

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MaryKate Morse

Gifting the Incarnation of Christ: A Spiritual Discipline for Christmas

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Mandy Smith

How Advent Teaches the Art of Mixed Emotions

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Paul Koshy

Asking “Who Is My Neighbor?” After the Election

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Mandy Smith

Nathan Smith

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

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Michelle Van Loon

The Uncomfortable Circumstance that God Uses to Form a People

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Derek Vreeland

Awaiting the Lord, Not the President

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Rich Villodas

Find Restoration in Advent with this Devotional Guide

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Mandy Smith

The Hidden Potential in an Awkward Family Thanksgiving

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Rich Villodas

The Crisis That Makes Me Grieve the Evangelical Church

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Bill Walker

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

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Rich Villodas

Silence: The Unexpected, Prophetic Starting Point for Justice

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Derek Vreeland

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

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Seth Richardson

Ryan Flanigan

Has the New Liturgical Movement Given Up On Music?

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David Fitch

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

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Graham Joseph Hill

How to Read the Bible and Hear God’s Voice

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Rich Villodas

Racial Reconciliation May Not Be What You Think It Is

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Alexis Waggoner

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

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Kris Beckert

Is God Calling You to Go First?

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Derek Vreeland

How to Keep the Voting Booth from Tearing us Apart

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Seth Richardson

Discipleship Doesn’t Work

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Chris Morton

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

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Mandy Smith

Emptying Ourselves to Become as Human as Christ

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Karen Wilk

Nine Reasons Christians Fail to Love Their Neighbors

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Michelle Van Loon

An Ancient Discipling Approach that Works 365 Days a Year

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Derek Vreeland

Pastors: The CEO Has to Go

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Dennis R. Edwards

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

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David Seemuth

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

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Karen Wilk

Six Quotes From Jesus You Might be Reading Wrong

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Seth Richardson

Are You Ready for the Jerk Apocalypse?

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Karina Kreminski

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

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Mandy Smith

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

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Kris Beckert

Why Church Death is Healthy

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Seth Richardson

Loving My Neighbor Without Justifying Myself

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Frank James

Why I Left the Band of Brothers for a Blessed Alliance

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Laurel Coolbaugh

God’s Surprises and Female Harvesters

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Mandy Smith

Can A Female Preacher (or President) Be Herself?

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Larry Kim

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

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Carolyn Custis James

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

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Dave Swaim

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

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Emily Nielsen Jones

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