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Mandy Smith

New Opportunities in a Post-9/11 World

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Mandy Smith

G.I. Joe is the New Barbie

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Mandy Smith

The Prophets of the Mainstream Press

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Mandy Smith

The Spirit Is Not Optional: Embracing the Danger and the Comfort of the Third Person of God

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Mandy Smith

Can A Female Preacher (or President) Be Herself?

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Mandy Smith

How Lament Quells the Terrorist in Each of Us

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Mandy Smith

Six Pieces of Weird Christian Baggage Still Worth Redeeming

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Mandy Smith

Pentecost Prayer for a Confined Spirit

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Mandy Smith

Revival at the Margins: How Emptiness Prepares us for the Spirit

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Mandy Smith

Would Jesus Bake a Gay Couple a Cake? Or Two?

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Mandy Smith

Five Ways White Males Can Address the White Male Privilege Problem

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Mandy Smith

Heaven Forbid a Vulnerable God

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Mandy Smith

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

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Mandy Smith

A Lenten Prayer for Mr. Trump

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Mandy Smith

When Christians are Culturally Post-Christian

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Mandy Smith

A Simple, Communal Lent Journey

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Mandy Smith

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

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Mandy Smith

The Leadership Theology We Live

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Mandy Smith

How it Feels to be an Outsider: Making Abnormal Normal

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Mandy Smith

Dance for the Healing to Come: The Strange Act of (Literally) Dancing in Lament

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Mandy Smith

The Extra Step in the American Gospel: Becoming Bearers of Bad News Before We Can Proclaim the Good

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Mandy Smith

A Memo to Languishing Prophets

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Mandy Smith

The Posture of Childlikeness: An Interactive Advent Art Reflection

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Mandy Smith

A Bedtime Prayer for Terrorists

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Mandy Smith

Is the Church a Whore?

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Mandy Smith

From Desperation to Revival in One “Simple” Step: The Uncomfortable but Surprising Way to Bring Breakthrough