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Did Jesus Really Usher in the Kingdom of God?

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

When Ministry Leads to Resentment – What Do You Do?

Prayer as Liminal Space with Alice Fryling

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

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

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

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

Christian Nationalism is Anti-Gospel

Should Men Mentor Women Even After #MeToo?

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

3 Forgotten Reasons Jesus Died

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

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

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

The Defiant Act of Prophetic “Foolishness” in Serious Times

Whose Job Is It to Care for the Poor?

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

In A World of Enmity, Christ Calls us To Empathy – Here’s What We Have to Know and Do

Guns in the Kingdom of God: An Eschatological Appeal to End Gun Proliferation

How Can A Church Witness Well in the Aftermath of Sexual Abuse?

Saving Our Sexuality, Part 2: On Dealing with Abuse in the Church

What I’m Doing to Kindle My Hope That God is Making All Things New: Will You Join Me?

Wakanda, Blackness, and the Kingdom of God

Emboldened for Mission and Ministry: An Interview with Tara Beth Leach

Parkland and the Continued Problem with Thoughts and Prayers

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

Church Leaders, Take This Advice from One Single Person

A Lenten Journey for Healing Gender Relations

Is Learning from Women Essential for Your Pastoral Competence?

Self-Awareness and the Enneagram: A Response to Kevin DeYoung

Saving Our Sexuality: Is #MeToo Enough?

On the Eagles, the Super Bowl, and the Idols in All Our Cities

Why I Needed Women Seminary Professors: A Response to John Piper

Why John Piper Needs Help from Female Seminary Professors

Three Ways Declining Churches Become Thriving Churches: An Invitation to Explore Fresh Expressions

Feel Powerless in Your Efforts to Invite Minority Voices? You May be Closer to a Way Forward Than You Think!

To Leaders in 2018: Why You Must Lead Us in Lament (and How)

Finding the Strength to Love from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Generation that Must Save Evangelicalism from Its Moral Compromises

Evangelicalism: It’s a Brand, but it’s Also a Space

The Last Evangelical

A Trinitarian Vision of Spiritual Transformation

The Silence Breakers: A Kairos Moment for the Church

Armed Only with Vulnerability: Sean Palmer on the Mission of God

Dennis Edwards on Letting the Marginalized Lead Us: An Interview by Shane Blackshear

Essential Reads 2017: Seven New Books by Our Missio Alliance Authors

The Tasty and Unexpected Place Where God Forms Community

Is Your Pastor Shaped More by a Tablet or a Table?

The Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2017

Who We Keep Leaving Out of Advent

Modern Mary: What a Pregnant Refugee Minority Teenager Would Sing Today

3 Formational Practices for Difficult Conversations Every Church Can Learn

Here’s How You Can Guide Your Church through Gender Role Conversations

Advent: Four Elements of “Wait Training”

From #RubyWooPilgrimage to a Pilgrimage of the Ordinary

Are Thoughts and Prayers Enough for a Troubled World?

Reimagining Theological Education 500 Years After Calvin #AlwaysReforming

It’s Time to Emancipate our Theology from Western Culture #AlwaysReforming
