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Chris Kamalski
Seek the Welfare of the City
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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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Karina Kreminski
The Longest Night in the South: Winter is a Time for Enchantment
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Nicole Doyley
Why Haven’t We Made More Progress?
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Todd Deatherage
Every Bombed Village Is My Hometown
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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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Katelyn J. Dixon
In the House of Belonging: Healing Church Hurt Through Church (Part 2)
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Katelyn J. Dixon
In the House of Belonging: Healing Church Hurt Through Church (Part 1)
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Prasanta Verma
Standing in the Middle of the World: A Bicultural Story of Finding Belonging
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Eun Strawser
Assimilation Displaces, and the Church is Complicit
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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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MaryKate Morse
The Essential Need for Integrity in Leaders and Systems (Part 2)
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MaryKate Morse
The Essential Need for Integrity in Leaders and Systems (Part 1)
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Josiah Hoagland
A Joyful Orientation
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Daniel E. Harris
The Church is Strangely Fascinated with Youthfulness
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Jason Gaboury
The Elimination of Friction: An Opposing Perspective Is Deeply Formative
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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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Phillip Lewis
Our Deep Desire is to be Witnessed
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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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MaryKate Morse
Q&A with Dr. MaryKate Morse: On Hierarchy, Authority, and Stewarding Power Well
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Mark Glanville
Awakening to Creation is Key for Flourishing Churches in Post-Christendom
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MaryKate Morse
Hierarchy: A Word Christian Leaders Can Confuse with the Dark and Love to Hate
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Ruth Padilla DeBorst
The Blessing of Discomfort: A Global Church Perspective
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Ian McFadden
Injecting the Tonic of Humility: Could Political Healing Come From An Unexpected Quarter?
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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
I Need A Good Shout!
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Tracy Mathews
The State of the Church in America Through the Lens of Contemplation
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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
To Keep A True Lent
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Macho Lara
The Loaves and Fish Paradox: Planting a Church While Bi-Vocational
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Miriam Swanson
The Disruption of Life
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Jason Barnhart
Politic, Not Party
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Mandy Smith
Tired of Feeling Guilty for Feeling Tired
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Missio Alliance
Reflectively Listening to a New Year
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MaryKate Morse
Rachel Weeping for Her Children
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Mayra Ramos
Blue Christmas: Is it Really the Most Wonderful Time of the Year?
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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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Andrew Arndt
Advent: Watching and Waiting For God
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Dennis R. Edwards
Advent: The Nexus of Humility, Justice, and Joy
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Missio Alliance
A Thanksgiving Liturgy: Before A Meal
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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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Alyssa Bell
Embodied Spiritual Formation for the Mothering Pastor
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Oneya Okuwobi
Hungry People and Full People
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Missio Alliance
Holding Vigil: Beneath a Binary Perspective on the Israeli War in Gaza
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