It’s my tremendous joy to announce that Helen Lee has joined the Missio Alliance team as Director of Content & Resource Development!
Helen makes this transition from InterVarsity Press where she served as Director of Marketing. As an author, speaker, and deeply experienced leader in the world of Christian publishing, Helen brings a wealth of perspective and capacity to our growing ministry platforms. She is the author of The Missional Mom (IVP, 2011), has served as co-editor and contributor of Growing Healthy Asian-American Churches (IVP, 2006) and has authored articles and posts for organizations and blogs such as Christianity Today, Leadership Journal, Sojourners, Jesus Creed, Christ and Pop Culture, and Today’s Christian Woman.
In this new role, Helen will provide primary leadership for Missio’s efforts to produce content and resources that equip church leaders to faithfully engage, in thought and practice, the most significant challenges facing North American Christianity.
As such, Helen will play an important role in shaping the vision and strategies of Missio Alliance as we look to the future.
We are excited that Helen will remain on staff with IVP as the Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives –which is an excellent opportunity to continue our long-standing and fruitful relationship with InterVarsity Press.
Please join us in welcoming Helen Lee to the Missio Alliance team!
Missio Alliance Comment Policy
The Missio Alliance Writing Collectives exist as a ministry of writing to resource theological practitioners for mission. From our Leading Voices to our regular Writing Team and those invited to publish with us as Community Voices, we are creating a space for thoughtful engagement of critical issues and questions facing the North American Church in God’s mission. This sort of thoughtful engagement is something that we seek to engender not only in our publishing, but in conversations that unfold as a result in the comment section of our articles.
Unfortunately, because of the relational distance introduced by online communication, “thoughtful engagement” and “comment sections” seldom go hand in hand. At the same time, censorship of comments by those who disagree with points made by authors, whose anger or limited perspective taints their words, or who simply feel the need to express their own opinion on a topic without any meaningful engagement with the article or comment in question can mask an important window into the true state of Christian discourse. As such, Missio Alliance sets forth the following suggestions for those who wish to engage in conversation around our writing:
1. Seek to understand the author’s intent.
If you disagree with something the an author said, consider framing your response as, “I hear you as saying _________. Am I understanding you correctly? If so, here’s why I disagree. _____________.
2. Seek to make your own voice heard.
We deeply desire and value the voice and perspective of our readers. However you may react to an article we publish or a fellow commenter, we encourage you to set forth that reaction is the most constructive way possible. Use your voice and perspective to move conversation forward rather than shut it down.
3. Share your story.
One of our favorite tenants is that “an enemy is someone whose story we haven’t heard.” Very often disagreements and rants are the result of people talking past rather than to one another. Everyone’s perspective is intimately bound up with their own stories – their contexts and experiences. We encourage you to couch your comments in whatever aspect of your own story might help others understand where you are coming from.
In view of those suggestions for shaping conversation on our site and in an effort to curate a hospitable space of open conversation, Missio Alliance may delete comments and/or ban users who show no regard for constructive engagement, especially those whose comments are easily construed as trolling, threatening, or abusive.