Writing Collectives

Anchored by a diverse group of Leading Voices and a regular Writing Team, Missio Alliance Writing Collectives provide space for resourcing and conversation among theological practitioners in the areas of Culture, Formation, Global Church, Theology, and Witness.

Culture

Should Men Mentor Women Even After #MeToo?

Formation

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

Theology

3 Forgotten Reasons Jesus Died

Formation

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

Formation

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

Formation

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

Formation

The Defiant Act of Prophetic “Foolishness” in Serious Times

Theology

Whose Job Is It to Care for the Poor?

Formation

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

Formation

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

Culture

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

Witness

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

Theology

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

Formation

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

Culture

Wakanda, Blackness, and the Kingdom of God

Witness

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

Culture

Parkland and the Continued Problem with Thoughts and Prayers

Theology

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

Theology

Church Leaders, Take This Advice from One Single Person

Formation

A Lenten Journey for Healing Gender Relations

Culture

Is Learning from Women Essential for Your Pastoral Competence?

Formation

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

Witness

Saving Our Sexuality: Is #MeToo Enough?

Culture

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

Formation

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

Formation

Why John Piper Needs Help from Female Seminary Professors

From Our Partners / Witness

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

Formation

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

Formation

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

Formation

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

Witness

The Generation that Must Save Evangelicalism from Its Moral Compromises

Witness

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

Witness

The Last Evangelical

Formation

A Trinitarian Vision of Spiritual Transformation

Culture

The Silence Breakers: A Kairos Moment for the Church

Witness

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

Theology

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

Culture / Formation / Global Church / Theology / Witness

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

Theology

The Tasty and Unexpected Place Where God Forms Community

Formation

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

Culture / Formation / Global Church / Theology / Witness

The Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2017

Theology

Who We Keep Leaving Out of Advent

Witness

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

Formation

3 Formational Practices for Difficult Conversations Every Church Can Learn

Formation

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

Formation

Advent: Four Elements of “Wait Training”

Formation

From #RubyWooPilgrimage to a Pilgrimage of the Ordinary

Formation

Are Thoughts and Prayers Enough for a Troubled World?

Culture

Reimagining Theological Education 500 Years After Calvin #AlwaysReforming

Theology

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

Theology

What One Small Church Plant Learned from SheLeads

Formation

Try This Strategy: Start With Twelve

Witness

Church: Can We Stop Living in the 1500’s? #AlwaysReforming

Witness

The Church in a Violent World

Theology

Reclaiming the Trinity from Father, Son, and Holy Book #AlwaysReforming

Theology

The Church’s Strategy for Responding to Suffering

Witness

Can We Transcend the Reformation? #AlwaysReforming

Theology

3 Reformed Heroes for the World After Christendom #AlwaysReforming

Culture

The Pigtails that Sparked a Revolution #AlwaysReforming

Witness

SheLeads because SheFollows