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Missio Alliance

Four Practices to Help Your Church Grieve Personal and National Tragedy

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Michelle Van Loon

Reclaiming God’s Intent for Sabbath

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Graham Joseph Hill

7 Practices for Hearing and Responding to the Margins (Especially During Elections)

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Geoff Holsclaw

Eternal Submission? Thinking (all the way) Through the Issue

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Seth Richardson

Preached to Death

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Matt Tebbe

The Orlando Shooting: Who Would Jesus Blame?

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Karina Kreminski

What if We Stopped the Token Talk and Welcomed Female Preachers?

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Mandy Smith

How Lament Quells the Terrorist in Each of Us

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Nikki Toyama-Szeto

Avoiding the Blow-down from Helicopter Pastoring

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Kris Beckert

Four Images of Jesus’ Ministry that Would Bomb on Social Media

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April Karli

Rape: Five Ways Your Church Can Talk About It

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Bill Walker

Three Tenets for a New Kind of Gospel-Centeredness

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Stephen Waldron

Knowing God in a Secular World

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Dennis R. Edwards

The Crucial Gift

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Alexis Waggoner

The Surprising Place I Learned About Oppression

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MaryKate Morse

Writing as a Spiritual Discipline

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Derek Vreeland

Who Do We Get to Hate?

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Amy Davis Abdallah

Stop Blaming Venus and Mars. We’re All From Earth

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Carolyn Custis James

The Women ISIS Fears

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Let’s Talk About Sex

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Nijay Gupta

The Lord’s Prayer, a Missional Reading: Give Us Daily Bread

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Karina Kreminski

The Subversive Act Of Friendship

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Justin Heap

The Future Is Small

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Mark Moore

Do You Know Jesus Like You Know a Presidential Candidate?

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Mandy Smith

Six Pieces of Weird Christian Baggage Still Worth Redeeming

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Seth Richardson

Putting an End to Revival for Pentecost’s Sake

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Karen Wilk

The Church is Not a Triangle

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Tara Beth Leach

I Hunger and Thirst for Revival: A Pastor’s Confession

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Jason Butler

Stop Trying to Control God’s Uncontrollable Tactics for Reconciliation

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JB Hecock

Jesus Was a Guest. What If We Acted The Same Way?

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Dusty Wallace

For People Exhausted by the Negative Perception of the Church

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Graham Joseph Hill

4 Qualities of Missional Movements Born at the Margins

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Chris Backert

Do You Even Want Revival?

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Jared Siebert

The Big Problem with Barna’s Study on Church Startups and Money

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Nijay Gupta

The Lord’s Prayer, A Missional Reading: Thy Kingdom Come

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Derek Vreeland

Book Review: The Dusty Ones by A.J. Swoboda

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Ruthie Johnson

Unformation: Learning to Experience God in My Darkness

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Carolyn Custis James

Mentor for Life—A Review

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Nikki Toyama-Szeto

How These Hero Children Revolutionized What it Means to “Advocate”

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Mandy Smith

Pentecost Prayer for a Confined Spirit

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Karina Kreminski

Four Practices that Shape Us Into “Sent Ones”

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Seth Richardson

A Way Beyond Spiritual Hoarding

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Ashes to Ashes, Birth to Freedom and Liberation Songs

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Missio Alliance

The Never Ending Work of Church Reformation

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MaryKate Morse

What the Church Could Learn from Oprah

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Ben Witherington

A Spirited Discussion: Waiting is Hard

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Karen Wilk

Jesus’ Creed and a Missional Understanding of Discipleship

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Mandy Smith

Revival at the Margins: How Emptiness Prepares us for the Spirit

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Mark Moore

The Unexpected Value of Insignificance

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Carolyn Custis James

The Failure of Complementarian Manhood

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Kris Beckert

The Best Words a Pastor Can Hear

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Dan White

Starting New Communities for Mission

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Karina Kreminski

7 Ways Missional Spirituality is Different than Christian Spirituality

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Tara Beth Leach

My Call to Senior Pastoral Ministry

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Alexis Waggoner

Jeremiah vs. Augustine: What Mysticism Says About Goodness & Depravity

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David Fitch

Tim Otto On The Idol of the Romanticized Sexualized American Nuclear Family

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Mandy Smith

Would Jesus Bake a Gay Couple a Cake? Or Two?

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Diverse Perspectives on Leading Multi-Cultural Missional Communities

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Matt Tebbe

How to go from “Worst-Case Scenario” as a Parent to a Transformational Encounter with Jesus

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Carolyn Custis James

The Masculinity Crisis