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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

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Nijay Gupta

The Lord’s Prayer, A Missional Reading: Hallowed By Thy Name

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Geoff Holsclaw

Five Ways White Males Can Use their White Male Privilege Opportunity

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David Fitch

Let Him Reign: How to Preach After Easter

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MaryKate Morse

Spiritual Formation: Conformed to the image of Christ for what purpose?

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Mandy Smith

Five Ways White Males Can Address the White Male Privilege Problem

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Carolyn Custis James

Updates from Indiana

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Derek Vreeland

Looking Back at the Cross through the Resurrection

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Tara Beth Leach

The Worst Best Monday Ever

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Kris Beckert

How I Learned to Love the Easter Parking Lot

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Mandy Smith

Heaven Forbid a Vulnerable God

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Ruthie Johnson

A Lament to the “God Who Sees”

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Missio Alliance

Theology on Mission #23: What Should The Church Do About T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶ Politics?

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Seth Richardson

Leading Worship as Political Training

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Mandy Smith

When Minorities Lead: One Woman’s Wrestling with “Oppressor” and “Oppressed”

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Karina Kreminski

Four Everyday Disciplines You Must Have to Experience Community

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Matt Tebbe

Learning to Gospel from Jesus: Beyond Theories and Formulas to Good News that Speaks to our Bad News

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Nijay Gupta

The Lord’s Prayer, A Missional Reading: Our Father in Heaven

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Karina Kreminski

Stop Using The Word Community Unless You Mean It

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Carolyn Custis James

Why Donald Trump is Good for Evangelicals

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Derek Vreeland

Stupid is Repairable: Growing as Thoughtful Followers of Jesus

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Mark Moore

Beautiful Women

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Mandy Smith

A Lenten Prayer for Mr. Trump

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MaryKate Morse

When Male Leadership is Privileged

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David Fitch

Donald Trump: What’s A Christian to Do?

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Bill Walker

Super Tuesday and Christians: A New Political Consciousness for Churches 

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Four Reasons I Stand #withMalala

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Carolyn Custis James

Malala—What is the cost of neglecting our girls?

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Missio Alliance

Theology on Mission #22: “Enjoy The Show”: Worship And Church Planting

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Mandy Smith

When Christians are Culturally Post-Christian

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Dennis R. Edwards

Wasting Our Lives Glorifying Days Long Gone

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Kyle Johnson

Is Non-Violence a Historic Christian Value?

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Kris Beckert

Cross-Breeding and Denominations: The Way Forward?

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Seth Richardson

A Parable for Lent

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Warning: You May Have to Go Through This to Find Grace

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David Fitch

On the Notion of Joining God in the Neighbourhood. Alan Roxburgh’s new book!

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Karen Wilk

Lent: How to Find Freedom the Way that Jesus Did

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Missio Alliance

Theology on Mission #21 Lent: Punishment or Preparation?

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Chris Morton

After Martin Shkreli: Three Ways to Respond to Those Who Offend Us

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Mandy Smith

A Simple, Communal Lent Journey

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MaryKate Morse

Culture and Holiness: Next Steps in the Conversation

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Amy Davis Abdallah

I’m a Woman, and my Church Didn’t Know What To Do With That

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Carolyn Custis James

A Woman on a Mission from God

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Kyuboem Lee

Yes AND No: On Christian Engagement with Other Religions

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Karina Kreminski

Breaking through Evangelicalism’s Culture of Fear

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Mandy Smith

Our “NOT Going Away” Party: Celebrating the Sending and the Staying

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Derek Vreeland

Muslims and Christians: Reframing the “Same God” Debate

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission #20: Seeing Another Story

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Mandy Smith

The Leadership Theology We Live

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Doug Paul

The Problematic ‘Creative Class’: When a Generation of Church Planters Only Reach White People

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Tara Beth Leach

When Abortion Suddenly Stopped Making Sense: The Church’s Response