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Crucial Conversations: Kingdom Ethics for our Post-Election Reality, Part One

Shaping Holy People, not Holy Persons

Four Principles to Foster Anti-Racism in Children at Every Stage

The Cost of Unity

The Post-COVID Church: Four Crucial Lessons from the ‘None-Zone’

A Moment or a Movement?

The Pure and Undefiled Job Description of the Christian

Three Relationships Every Church Needs…Especially Now

Seven Ways to Make a Difference—Without Leaving Your Home

The Power of Holy Mischief in Times of Crisis

Embodying the Imagery of the Prophets

Keep the Churches Closed! (a Response to Rusty Reno)

The Potential of Faithful Presence During a Pandemic

An Alternative to Panic: A Faithful Response to Epidemics

The Limits of Experience

Ten Hopes and Prayers for the Next Ten Years

True Politics Through Subversive Worship

Five Reasons Why Neighborhoods Matter

Relevancy Isn’t Our Only Option

The Mission of Welcoming Our Global Neighbors

When “Go Home” Is Innocent No More

In Praise of the Church’s Substance over Style

From Mundane Ministry to the Presence of God

What the Church Can Learn from Macy’s

Radical Hospitality

Holding Faith and Doubt in Community

Becoming a Just Church

The Local Church is a Living Sign of Hope

Immigrants Under Attack: Five Ways the Church Can Respond

An Unexpected Story of Church Partnership

When to Loosen Our Tongues: How Testimonies Spark Revival

Your Church Might Be a 501c3 but Your 501c3 Might Not Always Be the Church

Four Practices to Help You (and Your Ministry) Break Free from “Slaveholder Religion”

These Women Played An Enormous Role in Shaping Christianity—Do You Know Their Names?

3 Ways We Must Reimagine Our Ecclesiology in a Post-Willow Creek World

Mothers are Drowning in Stress—Here are 6 Ways Your Church Can Help

3 Practices to Stay on Mission in a Fast-Gentrifying Landscape

5 Timely Conversations You Don’t Want to Miss at Awakenings

In the Aftermath of the United Methodist Vote, There Are No Winners

Read this Book If You Want to Minister Holistically in a Fractured World

Sexual Abuse: 12 Resources for Church Leaders Committed to Preventing It

Churches are Closing. These Four Models are Thriving.

One Korean American Woman’s Call to Pastoral Ministry—and What the Church Stands to Gain

14 Dynamic Leaders of Color and Women You Should Know About

Church, Today We Need Dr. King’s Vision of Justice

Racism and The Dying American Church

The 1 Thing We Forget About Jesus’ Baptism During Epiphany

Top 20 Articles of 2018 from Missio Alliance

One Pastor’s Journey to the Border and What She Found There

15 Books from 2018 that Will Get You to #ReadWomen

The Greatest Obstacle to the Gospel Today: Racism and the White Church

Colonialism and Mission: 4 Lessons We Must Learn from History

Caring for Orphans Globally: How Can the Church in the West Do Better?

For Kingdom Citizens, Civil Discourse Doesn’t Work

Why Attentive Listening is Essential for the Witness of the Church Today

Midterm Elections Day: How the Church Could Turn the Tide on Political Polarization

Classism Exists in the Church—and It’s Hurting All of Us

Setting Aside the World’s Categories: One Pastor’s Approach to Politics

The Good News for an Increasingly “Post-Truth” Society
