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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 

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MaryKate Morse

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

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Graham Joseph Hill

A Prayer for Peace

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Mac McCarthy

How Do You Lead Without Being Toxic?

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Missio Alliance

Four Practices to Help Your Church Grieve Personal and National Tragedy

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Michelle Van Loon

Reclaiming God’s Intent for Sabbath

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Seth Richardson

Preached to Death

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Nikki Toyama-Szeto

Avoiding the Blow-down from Helicopter Pastoring

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Kris Beckert

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

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MaryKate Morse

Writing as a Spiritual Discipline

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Derek Vreeland

Who Do We Get to Hate?

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Amy Davis Abdallah

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

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Mark Moore

Do You Know Jesus Like You Know a Presidential Candidate?

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Derek Vreeland

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

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Ruthie Johnson

Unformation: Learning to Experience God in My Darkness

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Carolyn Custis James

Mentor for Life—A Review

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Seth Richardson

A Way Beyond Spiritual Hoarding

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Mandy Smith

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

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Mark Moore

The Unexpected Value of Insignificance

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Karina Kreminski

7 Ways Missional Spirituality is Different than Christian Spirituality

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Alexis Waggoner

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

Featured image for “How to go from “Worst-Case Scenario” as a Parent to a Transformational Encounter with Jesus”
Matt Tebbe

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

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MaryKate Morse

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

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Tara Beth Leach

The Worst Best Monday Ever

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Seth Richardson

Leading Worship as Political Training

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Mandy Smith

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

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Karina Kreminski

Four Everyday Disciplines You Must Have to Experience Community

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Karina Kreminski

Stop Using The Word Community Unless You Mean It

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Carolyn Custis James

Why Donald Trump is Good for Evangelicals

Featured image for “Stupid is Repairable: Growing as Thoughtful Followers of Jesus”
Derek Vreeland

Stupid is Repairable: Growing as Thoughtful Followers of Jesus

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MaryKate Morse

When Male Leadership is Privileged

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Bill Walker

Super Tuesday and Christians: A New Political Consciousness for Churches 

Featured image for “A Parable for Lent”
Seth Richardson

A Parable for Lent

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

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

Featured image for “Lent: How to Find Freedom the Way that Jesus Did”
Karen Wilk

Lent: How to Find Freedom the Way that Jesus Did

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Missio Alliance

Theology on Mission #21 Lent: Punishment or Preparation?

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Mandy Smith

A Simple, Communal Lent Journey

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Amy Davis Abdallah

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

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Mandy Smith

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

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Nijay Gupta

Let 2016 Be the Year of Prayer

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Marlena Graves

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

Featured image for “Questions: The Pathway to God’s Heart”
Matt Tebbe

Questions: The Pathway to God’s Heart

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Karen Wilk

Taking in the Greatness of God Changes My New Year’s “Plans”

Featured image for “Learning to Parent in the Crucible of Discipleship”
Matt Tebbe

Learning to Parent in the Crucible of Discipleship

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Mark Moore

The Hands That First Held Mary’s Child

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Seth Richardson

How Jerry Falwell Jr. Helps Me Repent

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Mandy Smith

The Posture of Childlikeness: An Interactive Advent Art Reflection

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Carolyn Custis James

The Perfect Christmas Man-Gift

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Jory Micah

We Need Marys and Marthas – An Evangelical Egalitarian Take

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Aaron Niequist

Should worship only be about God and me?