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Mandy Smith
Can Christian Leaders Hope to Flourish?
Mandy Smith
What Art Does: An Artmaker’s Wisdom on Life and Leadership
Mandy Smith
Resting in the Divine Current
Mandy Smith
A Poetic Theology of the Cross: A Conversation with Brian Zahnd and Mandy Smith
Mandy Smith
Tired of Feeling Guilty for Feeling Tired
Mandy Smith
A Manifesto to Heal My Writer Heart
Mandy Smith
We’re All Pioneers Now: Skills for the Unchartered Landscape of the 21st-Century Church
Mandy Smith
Derek Vreeland
Learning from the Margins: The Difference Between Human and Kingdom Power
Mandy Smith
Are We Underdogs or Overlords? How Western Christians Can Lose Power Gracefully
Mandy Smith
Understanding the Whole Good News of the Gospel
Mandy Smith
A Nation Waits: Seeking a Center of Peace
Mandy Smith
Repenting of our Scapegoating
Mandy Smith
What Our Current Wilderness Reveals About the Strongholds in Our Lives
Mandy Smith
The Power of Holy Mischief in Times of Crisis
Mandy Smith
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Playfulness as an Antidote to Anxiety
Mandy Smith
Dismantling the Bombshell Lie that Beauty is Power
Mandy Smith
The Difference Between Christian Institutions and the Kingdom
Mandy Smith
The Gift of Cross-Gender Leadership
Mandy Smith
Meeting God in our Deepest Places
Mandy Smith
The Impact of Western Ego on the Church
Mandy Smith
Faith Without Emotion is Dead: Avoiding False Choices When Leaders Fall
Mandy Smith
The Flip Side of Longing
Mandy Smith
When to Loosen Our Tongues: How Testimonies Spark Revival
Mandy Smith
We are Not Overcome! Calling the Church to Her True Vocation
Mandy Smith
Grieving for Rachel as Rachel Would Grieve
Mandy Smith
Miracles in the Headlines
Mandy Smith
Identity Politics and the False Self
Mandy Smith
When the Church Seems Powerless—What If It’s Our Doing?
Sean Palmer
Mandy Smith
14 Dynamic Leaders of Color and Women You Should Know About
Mandy Smith
What If the Pain Women Experience in the Church Better Equips Them to Lead?
Mandy Smith
I Don’t Have Time to Talk About “Women’s Issues”
Mandy Smith
The Emotional Issue that Gets in the Way of Women’s Leadership
Mandy Smith
What I Long to Say to My Brothers: “I Release You”
Mandy Smith
Setting Aside the World’s Categories: One Pastor’s Approach to Politics
Mandy Smith
Pastoring in a Culture of Independence and Fragility: Reflections from Parenting
Mandy Smith
The Surprising Solution When Gender Dynamics Seem to Be Destroying the Church
Mandy Smith
How A Theology of the City Helps the Whole Church: A Review of Urban Spirituality by Karina Kreminski
Mandy Smith
Why Theology Must Take on Flesh and Bone and Breathe into Everyday Life
Mandy Smith
6 Ways Christians Speak A New World Into Existence
Mandy Smith
Overcoming Scarcity Thinking in Post-Christian Mission (A Lesson from Gandalf)
Mandy Smith
The Surprising Power of Those on the Margins (and how it can be abused)
Mandy Smith
The Defiant Act of Prophetic “Foolishness” in Serious Times
Mandy Smith
What I’m Doing to Kindle My Hope That God is Making All Things New: Will You Join Me?
Mandy Smith
Feel Powerless in Your Efforts to Invite Minority Voices? You May be Closer to a Way Forward Than You Think!
Mandy Smith
Here’s How You Can Guide Your Church through Gender Role Conversations
Mandy Smith
SheLeads because SheFollows
Mandy Smith
In Times of Upheaval Women Shape New Landscapes
Mandy Smith
The Real Cost of Female Leadership in Dollars (and Friends)
Mandy Smith
6 Quotes from Men on Why the Church Needs Women
Mandy Smith
How to Celebrate the Church’s Birthday through Art
Mandy Smith
The Birth Pains of the North American Church
Mandy Smith
Wildly Tempting: How to win the war of temptation
Mandy Smith
The Church’s Transformative Power is Molecular
Mandy Smith
How the Gospel is Better than a Liberal Political Agenda
Mandy Smith
How to Break Through the Gender and Race Stalemates: 5 Methods
Mandy Smith
How Advent Teaches the Art of Mixed Emotions
Mandy Smith
Nathan Smith
Christmas Day is a Sunday. Here’s a Liturgy to do at Home.
Mandy Smith
The Hidden Potential in an Awkward Family Thanksgiving
Mandy Smith
Emptying Ourselves to Become as Human as Christ
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