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The Spiritual Practice of Summer
When a Day Off Isn’t Enough: Sabbatical Rest Sustains Pastoral Health for the Long-Haul
Emotions Signpost our Humanity in a Helpful Way
Pentecost DNA Forms Border-Crossing Christians
Five Ways Deconstruction Can Deepen Faith Without Devolving into Demolition
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
On Orchids, Temporality, and Reading James K. A. Smith’s ’How to Inhabit Time’
Spiritual Formation as the Transfer of Tacit Knowledge
Returning Home: Finding Ourselves in the Story of the Prodigals
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
Grounding Our Gospel with Prayers for the Slain
Embracing Lent: The Art of Dying Well
Community Starts in the Heart: ‘Ligamenting’ Our Lives with the Spirit in Space and Time
A Season of Disruption: Links from Our First Long-Form Series
A Clear Vision for the Future: Re-Examining The Anabaptist Vision for Today (Pt. 1)
Wait for Each Other: Disrupting the Status Quo for the Sake of Solidarity (Pt. 1)
Five Reasons Fruitfulness Is Better Than Productivity
A Disruptive Incarnation: Reflecting on the Cost of Immanuel Drawing Near
We’re All Pioneers Now: Skills for the Unchartered Landscape of the 21st-Century Church
Formation for a Newly Disrupted Generation
Beauty in the Scratches
The Power of Truth-Telling and Lament
Spiritual Direction: Why We Need It
Lessons from the Desert: How Frustration with the Church May Be an Invitation of the Spirit
How Loving the Old Will Strengthen Your Church
Reconstructing Faith After Deconstruction
How to Read Formationally: Reading with the Spirit of God
Contemplative Spirituality Provides a Trauma-Informed Approach to Growing Healthier Churches
Three Steps to Developing a Multicultural Liturgy in Your Church
Erasing Mary, The Mother of God
Is the Church Creating a Fragmented Spirituality in Emerging Adults?
Taw & Busk: Poetry For Holy Week
Fascism, Pandemic, and Apathy: How Christians Led in Past Crises
The Weight of Ministry Leadership
Christian Nationalism: What Dismantles It
When the Psalm Isn’t For Me
Prayer of Examen for a Reluctant Leader
Breathing in a New Rule of Life
Anchoring Prayer for a Time Such as This
Leaning on the Great Healer in Times of Anniversary-Effect Trauma
Worship that Forms and Transforms
Pastors May Be Close to Burn Out. Here’s How to Care for Them.
The Gift of Presence in an Age of Distractions
Mending the Church by Expanding the Story of Jesus
Pastors, You Can Leave—So, Feel Free to Stay
The Benefit of Blindness
The Healing Touches We Need, Now More than Ever
My Spiritual Formation in the Wake of COVID
Surviving the Heat of the Crucible of Leadership
You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey Through Easter
You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for Good Friday
You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for the Sixth Sunday of Lent
You Are My Witnesses: A Spiritual Journey for the Fifth Sunday of Lent