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Missio Alliance

The 2016 Fresh Expressions National Gathering

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #17: What You’re *NOT* Thinking About: Ideology

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Seth Richardson

The Immanence of Joy: A Response to James KA Smith

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Missio Alliance

Get a Doctorate of Ministry in Missional Leadership

David Fitch

Neither Do I Condemn Thee: Making Space For Alternative Sexualities in Our Midst

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Ruthie Johnson

Why Multiethnic? Imagining Together

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Derek Vreeland

Becoming Philosophers of a Certain Kind

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Ty Grigg

Playing with God

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Mandy Smith

Is the Church a Whore?

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David Lamb

We Are All Sodomites: Love, Mercy, & the “LGBTQ Conversation”

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Karina Kreminski

When God Shows Up: What’s a Doubting Functional Deist To Do?

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Charles Self

WATCH: Dr. Charlie Self on Faithful Churches and Flourishing Communities

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Matt Tebbe

The Silent Force Threatening to Derail God’s Mission: A Review of “Subterranean”

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Marlena Graves

A Feral Mind

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David Fitch

The Pastor-Theologian in a Different Light

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Tara Beth Leach

When She Preaches

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Missio Alliance

The Mission of Preaching: Missional Learning Commons 2015

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Derek Vreeland

Marathons & Religion

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #16: The Local Church is Going…Local

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Scott Lencke

What If Not All Are Called As Disciple Makers? – Part Two

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Scott Lencke

What If Not All Are Called As Disciple Makers? – Part One

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Nijay Gupta

Soong-Chan Rah Calls the American Church to Lament

David Fitch

(Believe it or not!) Preaching Is Central to Communities On Mission

David Fitch

Ed Stetzer and Me … and the Evangelical Leadership Disease. The Ashley Madison Case

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #15: Ashley Madison and Sanctification

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Seth Richardson

Becoming Present to God’s Presence: The Lost Pastoral Leadership Skill

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Karen Wilk

What Makes a Worship Gathering Missional? Pet Peeves and Better Practices

David Fitch

The Church is Like a Tree: Lessons on Church from Dan White jr

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Missio Alliance

Missio Alliance and Alliance Theological Seminary Band Together!

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Fred Liggin

Jesus Is My King Not My Concierge

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Karina Kreminski

Losing Our Taste For The Spectacular And Cultivating Ordinariness

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Charles Self

Missional Insights from Unusual Places: Lessons from Pope Francis, Joel Osteen and Billy Graham

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Missio Alliance

Theology on Mission Podcast #14: Why Gather For Worship?

David Fitch

To Pastors Everywhere: Let’s Discern the Antagonisms

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Marlena Graves

Everybody Loves Pope Francis!

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Tara Beth Leach

We Are Feminine (But We Won’t Fit In Your Box)

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Ruthie Johnson

It’s Time We Finally Asked: Why Multiethnic?

David Fitch

Pneumatocracy: How Church Leadership Works After Hierarchy and/or Democracy – Theology on Mission Podcast

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Bill Walker

She Spoke With (and On) Authority, Generosity, Spirit: A Tribute to Phyllis Tickle

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission #13: The Spirit of Leadership: Beyond Hierarchy and Democracy in the Church

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Derek Vreeland

Virtual Community is No Community at All

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Missio Alliance

Why You Should Come to Streaming at Rochester College, October 8-10

David Fitch

Preaching and the Shaping of a Church Into Mission: Theology On Mission Podcast

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Ty Grigg

Redeeming Sex in the Age of Obergefell

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Jason Butler

How Jesus Preached the Kingdom and Flipped the Script on Poverty

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #12: What is Preaching and Why Bother?

David Fitch

Not a Hierarchy, Not a Democracy, But a Pneumatocracy: The Church’s True Politics

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Seth Richardson

Becoming Weaker for Mission

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #11: Patriarchy Effects All Of Us, Even the Men

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Karina Kreminski

Should We Still Call God Father?

David Fitch

How to Engage Culture or is it cultures (plural)? Theology On Mission Podcast #10

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Jeff Meyers

The JFK Question and Christian Community

David Fitch

Is There Ever a Time to Say Nothing and Be Present?: On Not Submitting to the Antagonism

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Karina Kreminski

The “Unproductive” Season in Church Planting

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #10: Our Place in Cultures of Power?

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Ruthie Johnson

What does Multiethnic even mean for the Church?

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Nijay Gupta

Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys with Richard Twiss

David Fitch

The Word Became a Book? Theology And Mission Podcast #9

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #9: The Word Became…a Book?

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Charles Self

Nurturing Life: Pastoral Insights For Parents