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Origin Stories Matter: On Juneteenth

When a Day Off Isn’t Enough: Sabbatical Rest Sustains Pastoral Health for the Long-Haul

The Three Waves Metaphor: How Culture Shapes the Way We Work for Justice

Searching for a Robust Spirituality in a Doomscrolling World (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 1)

Emotions Signpost our Humanity in a Helpful Way

Dr. King Shines a Light Forward for Justice Work Today

Pentecost DNA Forms Border-Crossing Christians

Five Ways Deconstruction Can Deepen Faith Without Devolving into Demolition

Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 2)

The Least of These: Reflections on Learning to Practice a Faith Without Margins

Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 1)

In Search of a Spiritual Practice for Losing Mothers

Is Spiritual Formation Biblical?

The Sights & Sounds of Awakenings 2023

Disruption Doesn’t Have The Last Word; New Life Does

Developing an Imitation-Based Framework of Healthy Leadership in Christ (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part III)

Fallen Leaders Pursue the Imitation of Powers for Their Own Agenda (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part II)

The Rush of a Crowd: A Root Issue in Domineering Leaders (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part I)

On Orchids, Temporality, and Reading James K. A. Smith’s ’How to Inhabit Time’

Recent Developments in the CRT Culture Wars

Spiritual Formation as the Transfer of Tacit Knowledge

The Radical Practice of Christian Hospitality

Returning Home: Finding Ourselves in the Story of the Prodigals

Called, Not Conscripted (to Celibacy)

The Words We Store In Our Hearts

10 Things I’m (Still) Learning as a Pastor

Everything Belongs: On Joining Missio Alliance and Other Questions of Discernment

At the Core of the Gospel: Participation in God’s Own Life

Practicing Pilgrimage

Grounding Our Gospel with Prayers for the Slain

Jesus Subverts Our Messianic Expectations

Reflections from the Boundary Zone

A Manifesto to Heal My Writer Heart

The Problem of Loneliness: An Existential Challenge to the Goodness of the Human Story

Embracing Lent: The Art of Dying Well

Economics Within the Reality of the New Creation (Captive to Capitalism, Part 4)

Community Starts in the Heart: ‘Ligamenting’ Our Lives with the Spirit in Space and Time

I Don’t Want God to ‘Use’ Me

A Season of Disruption: Links from Our First Long-Form Series

A Clear Vision for the Future: The Corrective Lens of Black Theology (Pt. 2)

A Clear Vision for the Future: Re-Examining The Anabaptist Vision for Today (Pt. 1)

Seminaries in the Crucible: What Will Emerge? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 2)

Seminaries in the Crucible: What is Being Forged? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 1)

Wait for Each Other: Receiving One Another As Siblings in Christ (Pt. 2)

Wait for Each Other: Disrupting the Status Quo for the Sake of Solidarity (Pt. 1)

Truth-Telling: An Integrated Engagement With Our Differentiated Self (More Than Words, Pt. 2)

Five Reasons Fruitfulness Is Better Than Productivity

Reflection and Anticipation: Missio Alliance Staff on 2022 and the Future

A Disruptive Incarnation: Reflecting on the Cost of Immanuel Drawing Near

Truth-Telling: A Just Movement Toward Human Flourishing (More Than Words, Pt. 1)

Loving One’s Enemy as an Act of Liberation (Loving Our Enemies, Part 2)

Is Loving One’s Enemies in a World of Trauma Another Form of Oppression? (Loving Our Enemies, Part 1)

Redemptive Disruptions: How They Shape Our Stories and Reshape Our Theology

At the Watchtower: An Advent Meditation

Disrupted Giving: An Uncomfortable Opportunity (Part 2: The Future of Giving)

Disrupted Giving: An Uncomfortable Opportunity (Part 1: The Origins of Giving)

We’re All Pioneers Now: Skills for the Unchartered Landscape of the 21st-Century Church

Sticking With It When the Church Is in Decline

Want to Dismantle Racism? Disrupt Your Discipleship
