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Lace Up Your Jordans: Awakenings 2025 Day 1

The Great Re-Commission: Awakenings 2025 Day 1

Cherry Trees in the Budding Season: Awakenings 2025 Day 1

Rejecting a Colonial Approach to Evangelism

Evangelism: The Good News Gone Badly

Remembering For the Sake of Our Souls

Jesus As Entrepreneur (and Other Unhelpful Leadership Metaphors)

Learning a Better Way to Practice Mission

Character (Still) Matters

Discerning 2024: Our Leading Voices

Sabbath Isn’t About Stopping

In Christ, God Has Drawn Staggeringly Near

Reflections on Wholeness and Beauty in the Life of the Church (Pt. 3)

Reflections on Wholeness and Beauty in the Life of the Church (Pt. 2)

Sexism in the Church Decreases Missional Effectiveness

Reflections on Wholeness and Beauty in the Life of the Church (Pt. 1)

Advent: Watching and Waiting for God

The Reign of Christ the King (A Sermon Feast)

Helping them Stay: Mature Believers and the Local Church (Pt. 2)

Helping them Stay: Mature Believers and the Local Church (Pt. 1)

Christianity’s Growing Cultural Identity Crisis

Biblical Justice Includes Justice for Women

Faithful Responses to Election Results

Rise Above: Why Politics Matter, But Not As Much As Your Soul

We Are Not Exiles; We Are Babylon

Pray Your Rage

The Theology of a ‘Bombera’

Faithful Approaches to Politics

Reconciling to Place

Can Christian Leaders Hope to Flourish?

Maroon Church: Desert Wisdom for Fugitive Worlds

El Encanto Latino: Un Regalo Para La Iglesia

The Latino Encanto: Gifts for the Church

Acompañamiento: The Sacred Between Us

Restoring A Masterpiece: God’s Tender Care For Sexual Assault Victims

Wholeness and Beauty in the Life of the Church

Spiritual Formation In My Mundane (Actual) Life

My Country Isn’t The Kingdom

Jesus as CEO (and Other Unhelpful Leadership Metaphors)

The Ongoing Journey of Becoming a Trauma-Informed Pastor

Walking Toward Shalom: Hospice Wisdom for a Declining Church

Unexpected Disaster (The Broad Path)

Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression

A False Dichotomy: Am I Black or Am I Christian?

Walking Amongst Our Dry Bones

Flourishing and Cruciformity: Paradoxical Tensions in the Christian Life

Why Haven’t We Made More Progress?

Theopoetics: Breathing Fresh Life into Faith Communities (Part 2)

Theopoetics: Breathing Fresh Life into Faith Communities (Part 1)

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 2)

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 1)

Embracing Your Vocation for the Second Half of Life

A Joyful Orientation

Disruption in the Life of the Church: Then

Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression

What Shall We Do With Our Anger?

Resting in the Divine Current

The Spiritual Discipline of Ignoring White Christianity

A Poetic Theology of the Cross: A Conversation with Brian Zahnd and Mandy Smith

