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Missio Alliance

A New Blog Conversation on Being #TrulyHuman…and a Call for Submissions!

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Missio Alliance

The Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2014: Fifteen Books We Love!

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Gary Taylor

#ChurchTrending: Why I’m Quitting Facebook in 2015

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Karina Kreminski

#ChurchTrending: The Fallacy of the Homogeneity Principle

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Ruthie Johnson

#ChurchTrending: A New Narrative for Singleness

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Charles Self

#ChurchTrending: The Maccabees, A Christmas Truce, and Bonhoeffer on Peacemaking

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

#ChurchTrending: Can the Church Lead the Way, Part 3 (The Generational Divide)

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Ty Grigg

#ChurchTrending: The Buzzfeedification of the Holy Spirit

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

#ChurchTrending: Can the Church Lead the Way, Part 2 (Cultural Competence)

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Seth Richardson

#ChurchTrending: When Advent Becomes a Trap

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

#ChurchTrending: Can the Church Lead the Way, Part 1 (Women and Leadership)

Ruthie Johnson

Body Politics| Reflections on Ferguson

Geoff Holsclaw

Grieving For Ferguson and Beyond

Jason Butler

#ChurchTrending: Reflections On Ferguson in Poem Form

David Bailey

Let #Ferguson Prepare Us For This Season of Advent

Charles Self

#ChurchTrending: Economic Flourishing and Kingdom Impact

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Nijay Gupta

#ChurchTrending: How Trendy Was St Paul?

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Maria-Jose Soerens

#ChurchTrending: Finding the Spirit in Social Resistance

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Lisa Rodriguez-Watson

A Kingdom Response to President Obama’s Speech on Immigration

Bill Walker

Social Media, Sabbath and Silence: Three Ways to Counter Misshaping Cultural Currents

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Austin McNair

#ChurchTrending: Glass in the Playground

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Derek Vreeland

#ChurchTrending: Radical Authenticity, Sexuality, and Spiritual Transformation

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Christopher Hopper

#ChurchTrending: When Church and State Start Dating In School

A.J. Swoboda

Defying Gravity: Why Relativism is Dying and Everyone is Believing in Absolute Truth, Part 2

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A.J. Swoboda

Defying Gravity: Why Relativism is Dying & Everyone is Believing in Absolute Truth, Part 1

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Missio Alliance

#ChurchTrending: A Brand New Blog Conversation and a Call for Submissions!

Ruthie Johnson

Restoring Unity: The Invitation of the Banquet of Heaven

Josh Brock

Firehouse Confessional

James Tedford

The InterVarsity Situation: Christian Unity in the Face of State Derecognition

Karina Kreminski

Embracing the Enemy

Ruthie Johnson

Unity in the Kingdom: On Faith and Food

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

The Diaspora of Minorities within White Evangelicalism

Jolene Erlacher

How Age Diversity Threatens Unity in the Church

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Geoff Holsclaw

The Fall as FALSE UNITY: Beginning with Babel

Noah Stepro

Ferguson, WWI, and Reconstruction

Karina Kreminski

A Christian Response to Iraq and ISIS (Islamic State)

Missio Alliance

Call for Submissions: Why Unity Within Diversity is Vital to the Future of the Church in God’s Mission

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Tylor Standley

Is America a Christian Nation?

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Maria-Jose Soerens

What is the Good News? A Hunger Strike, Detention, & the Bread of Life

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Jonny Craig

Let’s Talk About Race

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Tylor Standley

Who Would Jesus Execute?

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Maria-Jose Soerens

Good Friday and the Prophets in Detention

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Ty Grigg

Jesus Improvs

Christena Cleveland

On World Vision and Black Sheep

Charles Self

Beyond Eros and Icons of the Age to Come: Lenten Anthropology

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Missio Alliance

Is Evangelicalism Over? John W. Hawthorne Weighs In

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Missio Alliance

Free Resource: Mission(al) Theology (Bruxy Cavey & Allen Yeh)

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Missio Alliance

Free Resource: Good Neighbor – Helping Mission Adapt to Its Context

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Missio Alliance

Sunday Morning Post, 3.16.14

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Missio Alliance

Sunday Morning Post, 3.9.14

Charles Self

A Plea for Thoughtfulness

Christena Cleveland

Everything I Know About Racism I Learned in the Church

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Brian Zahnd

When America Went to Hell

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Brian Dolleman

Escalation

KrisAnne Swartley

The Violence Within

T.G. Blankenship

Just War Theory: A Primer

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Andy Campbell

Did Jesus Command His Followers to Pack Heat?

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Missio Alliance

FREE RESOURCE: What You Always Wanted to Know About Immigration But Were Too Afraid to Ask

Missio Alliance

Christianity & Violence: A Call for Submissions

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Missio Alliance

The Sunday Morning Post, 2.9.14