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Derek Vreeland

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

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Joy Craun

Racism and The Dying American Church

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Geoff Holsclaw

The 1 Thing We Forget About Jesus’ Baptism During Epiphany

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Juliet Liu

Top 20 Articles of 2018 from Missio Alliance

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Kat Armas

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

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Juliet Liu

15 Books from 2018 that Will Get You to #ReadWomen

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MaryKate Morse

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

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Anthony Siegrist

Colonialism and Mission: 4 Lessons We Must Learn from History

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INFEMIT

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

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Seth Richardson

For Kingdom Citizens, Civil Discourse Doesn’t Work

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Keri Hui

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

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Andrew Arndt

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

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Matt Ingalls

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

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Mandy Smith

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

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Joel Yoshonis

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

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Adam Gustine

Confessions of a White Guy: Reflections After the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel

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Dennis R. Edwards

Reflections After the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel: What’s This Really All About?

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Joy Craun

Sexual Misconduct at Willow Creek: Why We Must Bid the Business Model of Church Goodbye

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Juliet Liu

(Video) The Church’s Sexual Abuse Crisis: Our Open Letter to Women in the Church

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Amy Simpson

Mental Illness: 7 Practices for Ministering Well—Even if You’re Not A Mental Health Professional

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Anthony Siegrist

The Church Needs to Be a Place for Radical Innovation: Here’s How

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Keri Hui

Called to Participate in the Ministry of Suffering with the Weeping God

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Andrew Arndt

Christianity Isn’t Personal or Public—It’s Both

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Ruth Padilla DeBorst

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Jesus Moved into the Neighborhood: Do We Have Eyes to Recognize Him?

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Tara Beth Leach

What Women Most Need From Our Brothers in Christ After #ChurchToo

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Karina Kreminski

3 Practices that Welcome Heaven Into Your Neighborhood

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Mandy Smith

6 Ways Christians Speak A New World Into Existence

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Kris Beckert

How to Stand Where Jesus Stands – the Messy Middle

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Rich Villodas

5 Ways Your Predominantly White Church Can Work for Racial Justice and Reconciliation

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Jim Van Yperen

How Can A Church Witness Well in the Aftermath of Sexual Abuse?

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Derek Vreeland

Emboldened for Mission and Ministry: An Interview with Tara Beth Leach

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Andrew Arndt

Saving Our Sexuality: Is #MeToo Enough?

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Verlon Fosner

Three Ways Declining Churches Become Thriving Churches: An Invitation to Explore Fresh Expressions

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Brandon Colbert

The Generation that Must Save Evangelicalism from Its Moral Compromises

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Dan Stringer

Evangelicalism: It’s a Brand, but it’s Also a Space

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Geoff Holsclaw

The Last Evangelical

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Derek Vreeland

Armed Only with Vulnerability: Sean Palmer on the Mission of God

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Juliet Liu

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

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Juliet Liu

The Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2017

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Ryan Kuja

Modern Mary: What a Pregnant Refugee Minority Teenager Would Sing Today

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Verlon Fosner

Church: Can We Stop Living in the 1500’s? #AlwaysReforming

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Andrew Arndt

The Church in a Violent World

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Bill Walker

Can We Transcend the Reformation? #AlwaysReforming

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Mandy Smith

SheLeads because SheFollows

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Josiah Marineau

The Christian University in Trump’s America

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Geoff Holsclaw

Man to Man: 5 Reasons I’m Going to SheLeads

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Rich Villodas

What Does Jesus Say to the #TakeAknee Issue?

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Karina Kreminski

Becoming “Homemakers” in Our Sacred Neighborhoods

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Seth Richardson

Can We Stop Making Statements on Sexual Ethics?

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Mandy Smith

The Real Cost of Female Leadership in Dollars (and Friends)

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Glenn Paauw

This is a Moment of Biblical Repentance for White Evangelicals

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Efrem Smith

Citizenship in the Kingdom of God is the End of Racism

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Derek Vreeland

Do We, White Christians, Have the Strength to Stoop Down

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Nikki Toyama-Szeto

Church, We Have Work To Do

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Kris Beckert

A Better Life Way Than Banning

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Rich Villodas

What Should Really Concern Us about the Eugene Peterson Debacle

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MaryKate Morse

Christian Leadership and the ‘Trump Effect’

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Karina Kreminski

3 Ways to Practice Love through Neighboring

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MaryKate Morse

Two Converging Paths: Celebration and Lament – An #Awakenings17 Reflection

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Being Black, a Woman and an Evangelical