Articles by Liz Cooledge Jenkins

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Liz Cooledge Jenkins

The Church Needs Women’s Lofty Dreams

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Jen Ashby

Single in the Church: How Church Practices Are Including or Excluding Single Adults

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David Swanson

Disrupting Legacies of White Supremacy in the Church

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Dennae Pierre

The Sterility of the Empty Cross

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Eun Strawser

Loneliness is the Penalty for Women Leaders

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Alan Hirsch

Metanoia: Wholehearted Change in Unprecedented Times

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Seth Richardson

Negotiating Difference (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 3)

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MaryKate Morse

Why Go to Seminary?

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Seth Richardson

Excessive Spirituality (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 2)

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Amy Davis Abdallah

How to Celebrate a Meaningful Name Change: ‘Consecrated Woman in Ministry’ to Reverend

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Seth Richardson

Searching for a Robust Spirituality in a Doomscrolling World (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 1)

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Derek Vreeland

Five Ways Deconstruction Can Deepen Faith Without Devolving into Demolition

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Carolyn Custis James

Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 2)

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Carolyn Custis James

Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 1)

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Ken Van Vliet

Is Spiritual Formation Biblical?

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Ben Sternke

Spiritual Formation as the Transfer of Tacit Knowledge

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Ike Miller

At the Core of the Gospel: Participation in God’s Own Life

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Miranda Zapor Cruz

Jesus Subverts Our Messianic Expectations

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Jason Gaboury

The Problem of Loneliness: An Existential Challenge to the Goodness of the Human Story

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Kyuboem Lee

Seminaries in the Crucible: What Will Emerge? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 2)

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Kyuboem Lee

Seminaries in the Crucible: What is Being Forged? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 1)

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Dennis R. Edwards

Wait for Each Other: Receiving One Another As Siblings in Christ (Pt. 2)

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Dennis R. Edwards

Wait for Each Other: Disrupting the Status Quo for the Sake of Solidarity (Pt. 1)

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Carolyn Custis James

Redemptive Disruptions: How They Shape Our Stories and Reshape Our Theology

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Andrew Arndt

At the Watchtower: An Advent Meditation

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Kris Beckert

Disrupted Giving: An Uncomfortable Opportunity (Part 2: The Future of Giving)

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Kris Beckert

Disrupted Giving: An Uncomfortable Opportunity (Part 1: The Origins of Giving)

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Miranda Zapor Cruz

The Myth of the 93%: Fathers and Mothers Are Not a Competitive Hierarchy in the Home

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Karina Kreminski

Beauty in the Scratches

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Seth Richardson

The Gospel Is Inherently Social and That Should Change the Way We Lead

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Mandy Smith

Derek Vreeland

Learning from the Margins: The Difference Between Human and Kingdom Power

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MaryKate Morse

Spiritual Direction: Why We Need It

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Andrew Arndt

Lessons from the Desert: How Frustration with the Church May Be an Invitation of the Spirit

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Dennis R. Edwards

Humility: A Missing Ingredient

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Carolyn Custis James

Disarming Patriarchy

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Derek Vreeland

How Our Ignorance Slows Racial Justice and What We Can Do About It

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Miranda Zapor Cruz

Burning Away Barriers and Blowing Down Walls

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Gaby Viesca

Erasing Mary, The Mother of God

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Donnell Wyche

Eleven Ways to Be a Great Partner to BIPOC Communities

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Josh Funk

Biblical Interpretation and Leaning into the Mystery of God, Part 2

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Josh Funk

Biblical Interpretation and Leaning into the Mystery of God, Part 1

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A.J. Swoboda

Nijay Gupta

On Idols and Doubts: Can Deconstruction Build a Stronger Faith?

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Jonny Morrison

Made for a Place Called Good

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Josh Funk

Sabbath Politics for a Weary World

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Jonny Morrison

An Advent Reflection: Our Scapegoats Revealed

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Andrew Arndt

Nothing Wasted: Evil and the Providence of God

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Seth Richardson

Recovering Authority in a Contested Age

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Donnell Wyche

In Search of White Partners: What BIPOC Need

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Andrew Arndt

The Power and Peace of the Trinity for Our Troubled Times

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Wendy Gierhart

Why Ecclesiology Matters in the Age of COVID-19

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Rich Villodas

Free-ish: the Here-but-Not-Yet Reality of Racial Justice

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Andrew Arndt

“Pastor, Can’t We Just Preach The Gospel?”

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Nijay Gupta

“Neither White Nor Black”?: Paul’s Case Against Being Colorblind

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Dennis R. Edwards

Why Clarifying “the Gospel” Matters—Now More Than Ever

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Michele Hershberger

The Malady of a Second-Rate Salvation

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Andrew Arndt

The Dance of Deference: Thoughts on Unity

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Geoff Holsclaw

Why Asking the Wrong Question Leads to a Deficient Gospel

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Tracey Bianchi

Shared Leadership in Sacred Spaces

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Ryan Post

Seeing Jesus with Clarity

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Wendy Gierhart

Have We Made Bible Study Too Simple?