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Joel Yoshonis

The Good News for an Increasingly “Post-Truth” Society

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Greg McKinzie

Whatever You Do, Do Not “Just Do It”

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Adam Gustine

Confessions of a White Guy: Reflections After the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel

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Ashley Easter

Abuse: Would Your Church Cover It Up?

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Dennis R. Edwards

Reflections After the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel: What’s This Really All About?

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Meghan Larissa Good

4 Practices for Navigating Those Conflicting Bible Stories

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Joy Craun

Sexual Misconduct at Willow Creek: Why We Must Bid the Business Model of Church Goodbye

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MaryKate Morse

Trauma from Abuse: How the Church Can Care for Those Seeking Healing

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Kayla Craig

Faith Under Construction: The Upside Down Gathering in Chicago

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Juliet Liu

(Video) The Church’s Sexual Abuse Crisis: Our Open Letter to Women in the Church

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Al Tizon

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Your Shalom Come: Where Can Hope Be Found in Our Day?

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Mandy Smith

The Surprising Solution When Gender Dynamics Seem to Be Destroying the Church

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Rich Villodas

7 Questions All Pastors Need to Ask Themselves Post-Hybels

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Amy Simpson

Mental Illness: 7 Practices for Ministering Well—Even if You’re Not A Mental Health Professional

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Derek Vreeland

What’s Your Definition of Marriage?

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Anthony Siegrist

The Church Needs to Be a Place for Radical Innovation: Here’s How

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Tony Caldwell

4 Practices for Discipling Kids Who Live Justly

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Keri Hui

Called to Participate in the Ministry of Suffering with the Weeping God

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Sean Palmer

How the Way We Talk About Sin Can Keep Us From Being Good People

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Rich Villodas

The Good News About Our Longings: Sexuality and Spirituality

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Carolyn Custis James

Take a Knee for the Children

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Andrew Arndt

Christianity Isn’t Personal or Public—It’s Both

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Ruth Haley Barton

A Remedy for Your Exhaustion

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Mandy Smith

How A Theology of the City Helps the Whole Church: A Review of Urban Spirituality by Karina Kreminski

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Rich Villodas

The Fourth of July: Four Perspectives on Celebrating

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Ryan Kuja

3 Ways the Church Can Jettison the Idea of Race as Biology

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Tish Harrison Warren

Sleepless in the States: World Refugee Day and the Crisis at the Border

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Ruth Padilla DeBorst

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Jesus Moved into the Neighborhood: Do We Have Eyes to Recognize Him?

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Seth Richardson

Is (Healthy) Cross-Gendered Ministry Even Possible?

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Missio Alliance

Christendom is Crumbling and It’s Not Pretty: A True Story of Christian Persecution of Christians

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Tara Beth Leach

What Women Most Need From Our Brothers in Christ After #ChurchToo

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

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

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Steve Dancause

The Trinity, the Image of God, and How Women Have Been Left Out of the Picture [An Interview with Deb Gregory]

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Derek Vreeland

We’ve Gotten Salvation All Wrong: Let’s Reclaim the Heart of Christian Discipleship

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Mandy Smith

Why Theology Must Take on Flesh and Bone and Breathe into Everyday Life

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Bonnie Kristian

How To Disagree About Theology Without Kicking Each Other Out of the Church

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Gena Thomas

Churches Who Support Foster Care Do These Five Things

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Bonnie Kristian

Dear Millennials and Nones, Meet the Rest of the Family

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Karina Kreminski

3 Practices that Welcome Heaven Into Your Neighborhood

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Mandy Smith

6 Ways Christians Speak A New World Into Existence

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Kris Beckert

How to Stand Where Jesus Stands – the Messy Middle

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Adam Gustine

Pretending Power Dynamics Don’t Exist Can Be Just as Dangerous As Abusing Power

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Derek Vreeland

Did Jesus Really Usher in the Kingdom of God?

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Steve Dancause

What We’ve Failed to See About Being Created in God’s Image

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Christy Rood

When Ministry Leads to Resentment – What Do You Do?

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Deb Gregory

Prayer as Liminal Space with Alice Fryling

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Mandy Smith

Overcoming Scarcity Thinking in Post-Christian Mission (A Lesson from Gandalf)

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Rich Villodas

5 Ways Your Predominantly White Church Can Work for Racial Justice and Reconciliation

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David Fitch

Shall We Go Be Among The Oppressed? James Cone’s, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” (Part 2)

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David Fitch

Shall We Go Be Among The Oppressed? Reflections on James Cone’s, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” (Part 1)

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Dennis R. Edwards

Christian Nationalism is Anti-Gospel

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Karina Kreminski

Should Men Mentor Women Even After #MeToo?

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MaryKate Morse

Evangelism, Discipleship, and Spiritual Formation: Which is What?

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Geoff Holsclaw

3 Forgotten Reasons Jesus Died

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Deb Gregory

The Way of the Cross: A Meditative Guide for Holy Week

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Mandy Smith

The Surprising Power of Those on the Margins (and how it can be abused)

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Karen Wilk

A Lenten Prayer of Repentance for When We Have Failed Our Neighborhood

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Mandy Smith

The Defiant Act of Prophetic “Foolishness” in Serious Times

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Paul Koshy

Whose Job Is It to Care for the Poor?

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Emily Beth Hill

American Christians: Are We Being Formed by Christ or Capitalism?