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Derek Vreeland

Interrogating ‘Tough Guy’ Masculinity

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Catherine McNiel

The Radical Practice of Christian Hospitality

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Andrew Arndt

Embracing Lent: The Art of Dying Well

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Liz Cooledge Jenkins

I Don’t Want God to ‘Use’ Me

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Karina Kreminski

Beauty in the Scratches

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J.R. Briggs

The Healing Touches We Need, Now More than Ever

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Christine Lee

Tod Bolsinger

Resilience, Race, and Resistance: Plenary Highlights, Part 1

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Jonny Morrison

An Advent Reflection: Our Scapegoats Revealed

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David Swanson

Loving Across the Divides

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Graham Joseph Hill

Conformation to the Image of Jesus

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Dennis R. Edwards

Why Clarifying “the Gospel” Matters—Now More Than Ever

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Derek Vreeland

Three Ways to Pastor a Politically-Polarized People

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Ryan Post

Seeing Jesus with Clarity

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Radical Hospitality

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Mandy Smith

Identity Politics and the False Self

Featured image for “Jesus Died So God Wouldn’t Be Angry With Us Anymore…and Other Misunderstandings about the Cross”
Derek Vreeland

Jesus Died So God Wouldn’t Be Angry With Us Anymore…and Other Misunderstandings about the Cross

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Geoff Holsclaw

The 1 Thing We Forget About Jesus’ Baptism During Epiphany

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Geoff Holsclaw

A Brief Theology of Walls

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Lesa Engelthaler

This Advent, Let the Gospel of Luke Reawaken Your Hope

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Meghan Larissa Good

4 Practices for Navigating Those Conflicting Bible Stories

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

All Our Children: How Churches Can Respond to the Crisis at the Border

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Deb Gregory

Prayer as Liminal Space with Alice Fryling

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Geoff Holsclaw

3 Forgotten Reasons Jesus Died

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Derek Vreeland

How the Cross Overcomes Love of Power with the Power of Love: An Interview with Derek Vreeland

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Is Learning from Women Essential for Your Pastoral Competence?

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Desperate for the Spirit

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Mandy Smith

Wildly Tempting: How to win the war of temptation

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Derek Vreeland

Four Things You Need to Know about American Civil Religion

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Geoff Holsclaw

How The Trinity Makes a Decision

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Derek Vreeland

The Sky is Not Falling

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Geoff Holsclaw

Three Failing Strategies Being Used to Redefine the Trinity

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Kelly Ladd Bishop

Godless Land or Revival City? It Depends on Your Theology of Gender

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MaryKate Morse

A Weary Traveler’s Confession and Reflection: The Story our ‘Bodies’ Tell

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Mark Moore

Do You Know Jesus Like You Know a Presidential Candidate?

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Ashes to Ashes, Birth to Freedom and Liberation Songs

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Derek Vreeland

Looking Back at the Cross through the Resurrection

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Kris Beckert

How I Learned to Love the Easter Parking Lot

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Mandy Smith

Heaven Forbid a Vulnerable God

Featured image for “The Lord’s Prayer, A Missional Reading: Our Father in Heaven”
Nijay Gupta

The Lord’s Prayer, A Missional Reading: Our Father in Heaven

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Mandy Smith

A Lenten Prayer for Mr. Trump

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Ruthie Johnson

[Re]imagining Jesus

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Mark Moore

The Hands That First Held Mary’s Child

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Nijay Gupta

What Would Jesus Conceal and Carry?

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JR Rozko

The Peace of Jesus: Symbol or Salvation

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Matt Tebbe

Am I Really Non-Violent?

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Fred Liggin

What If Christians Stopped Using Scripture to Advise Everyone and Learned From Jesus Instead?

Featured image for “Put a Face on God – Because God Really Is Like Jesus!”
Mark Moore

Put a Face on God – Because God Really Is Like Jesus!

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Karen Wilk

Are We Really Building the Kingdom?

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Ty Grigg

The Spirit of #TrulyHuman: Jesus Was No Jesus Without Help

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Mark Moore

Ascension Day is Huge

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Mark Moore

#TrulyHuman Listening: Prayer is Someone You’re With

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JR Rozko

Is the Cross Enough to Make us #TrulyHuman?

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A.J. Swoboda

Primped: Letting Our Hair Down as Leadership

Ruthie Johnson

Meals as Mission: Unity as our Identity in Christ

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Derek Vreeland

Suffering as the Pathway to Future Unity

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Karen Wilk

And Isn’t That Something? (Jn. 4:6-30, 39-42)

Mark Moore

Jesus, the Spirit, and Empowerment

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Austin McNair

Wreck the Temple

Featured image for “Making Waves: “Noah,” Jesus in the Temple, and the Problem of Confronting Evil”
James Tedford

Making Waves: “Noah,” Jesus in the Temple, and the Problem of Confronting Evil

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Geoff Holsclaw

Evangelism is…more than you thought.