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Bethany Becker

Restoring A Masterpiece: God’s Tender Care For Sexual Assault Victims

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Missio Alliance

Wholeness and Beauty in the Life of the Church

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Sherene Joseph

Spiritual Formation In My Mundane (Actual) Life

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Miranda Zapor Cruz

My Country Isn’t The Kingdom

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Emily Beth Hill

Jesus as CEO (and Other Unhelpful Leadership Metaphors)

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Cheryl You

The Ongoing Journey of Becoming a Trauma-Informed Pastor

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Amanda Hecht

Walking Toward Shalom: Hospice Wisdom for a Declining Church

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Rich Villodas

Unexpected Disaster (The Broad Path)

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Dennis R. Edwards

Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression

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Joylanda Jamison

A False Dichotomy: Am I Black or Am I Christian?

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Alex Booker

Walking Amongst Our Dry Bones

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Sahr Mbriwa

Flourishing and Cruciformity: Paradoxical Tensions in the Christian Life

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Nicole Doyley

Why Haven’t We Made More Progress?

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Michelle Winter

Theopoetics: Breathing Fresh Life into Faith Communities (Part 2)

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Michelle Winter

Theopoetics: Breathing Fresh Life into Faith Communities (Part 1)

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Carolyn Custis James

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 2)

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Carolyn Custis James

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 1)

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Trisha Welstad

Embracing Your Vocation for the Second Half of Life

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Josiah Hoagland

A Joyful Orientation

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Dennis R. Edwards

Disruption in the Life of the Church: Then

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Dennis R. Edwards

Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression

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Andrew Arndt

What Shall We Do With Our Anger?

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Mandy Smith

Resting in the Divine Current

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David Swanson

The Spiritual Discipline of Ignoring White Christianity

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Mandy Smith

A Poetic Theology of the Cross: A Conversation with Brian Zahnd and Mandy Smith

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Katelyn J. Dixon

Heaven at Our Fingertips

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Mark Glanville

Awakening to Creation is Key for Flourishing Churches in Post-Christendom

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

I Need A Good Shout!

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Steve Noble

Informed But Not Transformed: The Power of Art in Our Formation (Pt. 2)

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Steve Noble

Informed But Not Transformed: Critiquing the Banking System of Education (Pt. 1)

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Chris Kamalski

Missio Alliance

To Keep A True Lent

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Eun Strawser

Advent: Expressible Joy

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Derek Vreeland

Advent: The Poet of Peace

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Ted Kim

Advent: Hope is a Mountain

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Dennis R. Edwards

Advent: The Nexus of Humility, Justice, and Joy

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Liz Cooledge Jenkins

The Church Needs Women’s Lofty Dreams

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Jen Ashby

Single in the Church: How Church Practices Are Including or Excluding Single Adults

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David Swanson

Disrupting Legacies of White Supremacy in the Church

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Dennae Pierre

The Sterility of the Empty Cross

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Eun Strawser

Loneliness is the Penalty for Women Leaders

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Alan Hirsch

Metanoia: Wholehearted Change in Unprecedented Times

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Seth Richardson

Negotiating Difference (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 3)

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MaryKate Morse

Why Go to Seminary?

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Seth Richardson

Excessive Spirituality (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 2)

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Amy Davis Abdallah

How to Celebrate a Meaningful Name Change: ‘Consecrated Woman in Ministry’ to Reverend

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Seth Richardson

Searching for a Robust Spirituality in a Doomscrolling World (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 1)

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Derek Vreeland

Five Ways Deconstruction Can Deepen Faith Without Devolving into Demolition

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Carolyn Custis James

Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 2)

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Carolyn Custis James

Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 1)

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Ken Van Vliet

Is Spiritual Formation Biblical?

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Ben Sternke

Spiritual Formation as the Transfer of Tacit Knowledge

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Ike Miller

At the Core of the Gospel: Participation in God’s Own Life

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Miranda Zapor Cruz

Jesus Subverts Our Messianic Expectations

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Jason Gaboury

The Problem of Loneliness: An Existential Challenge to the Goodness of the Human Story

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Kyuboem Lee

Seminaries in the Crucible: What Will Emerge? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 2)

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Kyuboem Lee

Seminaries in the Crucible: What is Being Forged? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 1)

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Dennis R. Edwards

Wait for Each Other: Receiving One Another As Siblings in Christ (Pt. 2)

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Dennis R. Edwards

Wait for Each Other: Disrupting the Status Quo for the Sake of Solidarity (Pt. 1)

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Carolyn Custis James

Redemptive Disruptions: How They Shape Our Stories and Reshape Our Theology

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Andrew Arndt

At the Watchtower: An Advent Meditation