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Watching and Walking with Those in the Darkness

Five Reasons Why Neighborhoods Matter

The Gift of Cross-Gender Leadership

Pray for Holy Boldness

An Open Letter to My Brothers

Shared Leadership in Sacred Spaces

5 Myths of Men and Women Leading Together

Relevancy Isn’t Our Only Option

Liberated by Perfect Love

Meeting God in our Deepest Places

Discipleship as Brain-Building

How the Church Can Help in the Hood

A Risky Opportunity for Discipleship

The Mission of Welcoming Our Global Neighbors

When “Go Home” Is Innocent No More

Four Surprising Habits for Christian Formation

The Introverted Missional

The Church’s Complicity in Mass Incarceration

Moving From Death to Life in Rwanda

A Pastoral Response to the Hug Seen Around the World

When Ministry Isn’t What You Expect

In Praise of the Church’s Substance over Style

The Impact of Western Ego on the Church

Seeing Jesus with Clarity

Avoiding Leadership Inferiority Complex

A Necessary Read: Jemar Tisby and The Color of Compromise

From Mundane Ministry to the Presence of God

Dear Church: Your Mission Isn’t to Attract Millennials

Rediscovering the Natural Church

What the Church Can Learn from Macy’s

Radical Hospitality

Holding Faith and Doubt in Community

Faith Without Emotion is Dead: Avoiding False Choices When Leaders Fall

Prophets vs. Pimps: The Tension of Spirit-Led Leadership

Preventing the #MeToo Pain of Children

Managing the Dangers of Chronic Anxiety

How Anxiety So Easily Entangles Us

Becoming a Just Church

The Local Church is a Living Sign of Hope

The Flip Side of Longing

Immigrants Under Attack: Five Ways the Church Can Respond

Welcome, Helen Lee –Director of Content & Resource Development

An Unexpected Story of Church Partnership

Addressing the Elephant in the Church: Seven Necessary Components of Integrated Discipleship

When to Loosen Our Tongues: How Testimonies Spark Revival

Your Church Might Be a 501c3 but Your 501c3 Might Not Always Be the Church

Have We Made Bible Study Too Simple?

Moving Deeper Into Our Theological Camps: A Warning

The Economy is Making Many Jobs Obsolete—How Churches Can Be Different

We are Not Overcome! Calling the Church to Her True Vocation

Global Leadership, Cultural Intelligence, and the Voices We So Greatly Need

The Poway Synagogue Shooting – We Should All be Surprised by the Surprise

Celebrating Mother’s Day as a Non-Mom

What We Must Learn from The Global South When it Comes to a Theology of Work

Why Faithfulness Requires Reckoning with Power

Grieving for Rachel as Rachel Would Grieve

Miracles in the Headlines

Four Practices to Help You (and Your Ministry) Break Free from “Slaveholder Religion”

Power Dynamics Are Not Enough: A Reflection on Christ the Crucified and Our Confusion of Categories
