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Liliana Reza
Sep / 2024

Acompañamiento: The Sacred Between Us

Featured image for “Restoring A Masterpiece: God’s Tender Care For Sexual Assault Victims”
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Bethany Becker
Sep / 2024

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

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Missio Alliance
Sep / 2024

Wholeness and Beauty in the Life of the Church

Featured image for “Spiritual Formation In My Mundane (Actual) Life”
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Sherene Joseph
Aug / 2024

Spiritual Formation In My Mundane (Actual) Life

Featured image for “The Costco Run: Confronting My True Self”
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Benjamin Park
Aug / 2024

The Costco Run: Confronting My True Self

Featured image for “Every Woman Has a Story (of Sexism)”
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Heather Matthews
Aug / 2024

Every Woman Has a Story (of Sexism)

Featured image for “Arise and Shine: Missional Living that Boldly Confronts”
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Vatreisha Nyemba
Aug / 2024

Arise and Shine: Missional Living that Boldly Confronts

Featured image for “My Country Isn’t The Kingdom”
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Miranda Zapor Cruz
Aug / 2024

My Country Isn’t The Kingdom

Featured image for “Jesus as CEO (and Other Unhelpful Leadership Metaphors)”
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Emily Hill
Aug / 2024

Jesus as CEO (and Other Unhelpful Leadership Metaphors)

Featured image for “The Ongoing Journey of Becoming a Trauma-Informed Pastor”
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Cheryl You
Aug / 2024

The Ongoing Journey of Becoming a Trauma-Informed Pastor

Featured image for “The Common Good: What is Freedom For?”
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Amber H. Jones
Aug / 2024

The Common Good: What is Freedom For?

Featured image for “Walking Toward Shalom: Hospice Wisdom for a Declining Church”
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Amanda Hecht
Aug / 2024

Walking Toward Shalom: Hospice Wisdom for a Declining Church

Featured image for “Finding Our Voice: Introducing the 2024 Writing Fellows Cohort”
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Chris Kamalski
Aug / 2024

Finding Our Voice: Introducing the 2024 Writing Fellows Cohort

Featured image for “What Art Does: An Artmaker’s Wisdom on Life and Leadership”
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Mandy Smith
Jul / 2024

What Art Does: An Artmaker’s Wisdom on Life and Leadership

Featured image for “Seek the Welfare of the City”
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Chris Kamalski
Jul / 2024

Seek the Welfare of the City

Featured image for “Unexpected Disaster (The Broad Path)”
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Rich Villodas
Jul / 2024

Unexpected Disaster (The Broad Path)

Featured image for “Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression”
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Dennis R. Edwards
Jul / 2024

Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression

Featured image for “A False Dichotomy: Am I Black or Am I Christian?”
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Joylanda Jamison
Jul / 2024

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

Featured image for “Walking Amongst Our Dry Bones”
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Alex Booker
Jul / 2024

Walking Amongst Our Dry Bones

Featured image for “Flourishing and Cruciformity: Paradoxical Tensions in the Christian Life”
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Sahr Mbriwa
Jun / 2024

Flourishing and Cruciformity: Paradoxical Tensions in the Christian Life

Featured image for “The Longest Night in the South: Winter is a Time for Enchantment”
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Karina Kreminski
Jun / 2024

The Longest Night in the South: Winter is a Time for Enchantment

Featured image for “Why Haven’t We Made More Progress?”
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Nicole Doyley
Jun / 2024

Why Haven’t We Made More Progress?

Featured image for “Every Bombed Village Is My Hometown”
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Todd Deatherage
Jun / 2024

Every Bombed Village Is My Hometown

Featured image for “Theopoetics: Breathing Fresh Life into Faith Communities (Part 2)”
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Michelle Winter
Jun / 2024

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

Featured image for “Theopoetics: Breathing Fresh Life into Faith Communities (Part 1)”
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Michelle Winter
Jun / 2024

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

Featured image for “In the House of Belonging: Healing Church Hurt Through Church (Part 2)”
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Katelyn J. Dixon
Jun / 2024

In the House of Belonging: Healing Church Hurt Through Church (Part 2)

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Katelyn J. Dixon
Jun / 2024

In the House of Belonging: Healing Church Hurt Through Church (Part 1)

Featured image for “Standing in the Middle of the World: A Bicultural Story of Finding Belonging”
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Prasanta Verma
May / 2024

Standing in the Middle of the World: A Bicultural Story of Finding Belonging

Featured image for “Assimilation Displaces, and the Church is Complicit”
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Eun Strawser
May / 2024

Assimilation Displaces, and the Church is Complicit

Featured image for “Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 2)”
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Carolyn Custis James
May / 2024

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 2)

Featured image for “Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 1)”
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Carolyn Custis James
May / 2024

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 1)

Featured image for “Embracing Your Vocation for the Second Half of Life”
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Trisha Welstad
May / 2024

Embracing Your Vocation for the Second Half of Life

Featured image for “The Essential Need for Integrity in Leaders and Systems (Part 2)”
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MaryKate Morse
May / 2024

The Essential Need for Integrity in Leaders and Systems (Part 2)

Featured image for “The Essential Need for Integrity in Leaders and Systems (Part 1)”
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MaryKate Morse
May / 2024

The Essential Need for Integrity in Leaders and Systems (Part 1)

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Josiah Hoagland
May / 2024

A Joyful Orientation

Featured image for “The Church is Strangely Fascinated with Youthfulness”
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Daniel E. Harris
May / 2024

The Church is Strangely Fascinated with Youthfulness

Featured image for “The Elimination of Friction: An Opposing Perspective Is Deeply Formative”
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Jason Gaboury
Apr / 2024

The Elimination of Friction: An Opposing Perspective Is Deeply Formative

Featured image for “Disruption in the Life of the Church: Then”
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Dennis R. Edwards
Apr / 2024

Disruption in the Life of the Church: Then

Featured image for “Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression”
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Dennis R. Edwards
Apr / 2024

Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression

Featured image for “What Shall We Do With Our Anger?”
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Andrew Arndt
Apr / 2024

What Shall We Do With Our Anger?

Featured image for “Resting in the Divine Current”
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Mandy Smith
Apr / 2024

Resting in the Divine Current

Featured image for “Our Deep Desire is to be Witnessed”
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Phillip Lewis
Apr / 2024

Our Deep Desire is to be Witnessed

Featured image for “The Spiritual Discipline of Ignoring White Christianity”
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David Swanson
Apr / 2024

The Spiritual Discipline of Ignoring White Christianity

Featured image for “A Poetic Theology of the Cross: A Conversation with Brian Zahnd and Mandy Smith”
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Mandy Smith
Mar / 2024

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

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Katelyn J. Dixon
Mar / 2024

Heaven at Our Fingertips

Featured image for “Q&A with Dr. MaryKate Morse: On Hierarchy, Authority, and Stewarding Power Well”
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MaryKate Morse
Mar / 2024

Q&A with Dr. MaryKate Morse: On Hierarchy, Authority, and Stewarding Power Well

Featured image for “Awakening to Creation is Key for Flourishing Churches in Post-Christendom”
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Mark Glanville
Mar / 2024

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

Featured image for “Hierarchy: A Word Christian Leaders Can Confuse with the Dark and Love to Hate”
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MaryKate Morse
Mar / 2024

Hierarchy: A Word Christian Leaders Can Confuse with the Dark and Love to Hate

Featured image for “The Blessing of Discomfort: A Global Church Perspective”
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Ruth Padilla DeBorst
Mar / 2024

The Blessing of Discomfort: A Global Church Perspective

Featured image for “Injecting the Tonic of Humility: Could Political Healing Come From An Unexpected Quarter?”
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Ian McFadden
Mar / 2024

Injecting the Tonic of Humility: Could Political Healing Come From An Unexpected Quarter?

Featured image for “I Need A Good Shout!”
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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
Feb / 2024

I Need A Good Shout!

Featured image for “The State of the Church in America Through the Lens of Contemplation”
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Tracy Mathews
Feb / 2024

The State of the Church in America Through the Lens of Contemplation

Featured image for “Informed But Not Transformed: The Power of Art in Our Formation (Pt. 2)”
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Steve Noble
Feb / 2024

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

Featured image for “Informed But Not Transformed: Critiquing the Banking System of Education (Pt. 1)”
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Steve Noble
Feb / 2024

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

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Chris Kamalski
Feb / 2024

To Keep A True Lent

Featured image for “The Loaves and Fish Paradox: Planting a Church While Bi-Vocational”
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Macho Lara
Jan / 2024

The Loaves and Fish Paradox: Planting a Church While Bi-Vocational

Featured image for “The Disruption of Life”
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Miriam Swanson
Jan / 2024

The Disruption of Life

Featured image for “2023: A Year In Review”
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Missio Alliance
Jan / 2024

2023: A Year In Review

Featured image for “Politic, Not Party”
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Jason Barnhart
Jan / 2024

Politic, Not Party

Featured image for “Tired of Feeling Guilty for Feeling Tired”
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Mandy Smith
Jan / 2024

Tired of Feeling Guilty for Feeling Tired