Articles by Wendy Gierhart

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Wendy Gierhart

Have We Made Bible Study Too Simple?

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Jason Wellman

Moving Deeper Into Our Theological Camps: A Warning

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Mandy Smith

We are Not Overcome! Calling the Church to Her True Vocation

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INFEMIT

What We Must Learn from The Global South When it Comes to a Theology of Work

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Seth Richardson

Why Faithfulness Requires Reckoning with Power

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Glenn Packiam

Power Dynamics Are Not Enough: A Reflection on Christ the Crucified and Our Confusion of Categories

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Derek Vreeland

Why Biblical Inerrancy Doesn’t Work

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Missio Alliance

5 Timely Conversations You Don’t Want to Miss at Awakenings

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Derek Vreeland

Jesus Died So God Wouldn’t Be Angry With Us Anymore…and Other Misunderstandings about the Cross

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Josh Sweeden

Seminary for the Rest of Us: Theological Education Isn’t Just for Pastors

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Sean Palmer

Mandy Smith

14 Dynamic Leaders of Color and Women You Should Know About

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Geoff Holsclaw

A Brief Theology of Walls

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Juliet Liu

Top 20 Articles of 2018 from Missio Alliance

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Juliet Liu

15 Books from 2018 that Will Get You to #ReadWomen

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Sean Palmer

Believing Our Carols at Christmas: Embracing Our Brother, the Slave

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Dustin Bagby

Advent: the Once & Future Coming of Jesus Christ by Fleming Rutledge [Book Review]

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Karen Wilk

Christ the King Sunday: What Does It Mean that Jesus is King?

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Mandy Smith

I Don’t Have Time to Talk About “Women’s Issues”

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David Fitch

Reading the Bible Together When We Don’t Agree

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Meghan Larissa Good

4 Practices for Navigating Those Conflicting Bible Stories

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Rich Villodas

The Good News About Our Longings: Sexuality and Spirituality

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Steve Dancause

The Trinity, the Image of God, and How Women Have Been Left Out of the Picture [An Interview with Deb Gregory]

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Mandy Smith

Why Theology Must Take on Flesh and Bone and Breathe into Everyday Life

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Bonnie Kristian

How To Disagree About Theology Without Kicking Each Other Out of the Church

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Bonnie Kristian

Dear Millennials and Nones, Meet the Rest of the Family

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Adam Gustine

Pretending Power Dynamics Don’t Exist Can Be Just as Dangerous As Abusing Power

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Derek Vreeland

Did Jesus Really Usher in the Kingdom of God?

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Steve Dancause

What We’ve Failed to See About Being Created in God’s Image

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David Fitch

Shall We Go Be Among The Oppressed? James Cone’s, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” (Part 2)

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David Fitch

Shall We Go Be Among The Oppressed? Reflections on James Cone’s, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” (Part 1)

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Dennis R. Edwards

Christian Nationalism is Anti-Gospel

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Geoff Holsclaw

3 Forgotten Reasons Jesus Died

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Paul Koshy

Whose Job Is It to Care for the Poor?

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Andrew Arndt

Saving Our Sexuality, Part 2: On Dealing with Abuse in the Church

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Derek Vreeland

How the Cross Overcomes Love of Power with the Power of Love: An Interview with Derek Vreeland

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Amy Ickes

Church Leaders, Take This Advice from One Single Person

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Shane Blackshear

Dennis R. Edwards

Dennis Edwards on Letting the Marginalized Lead Us: An Interview by Shane Blackshear

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Juliet Liu

Essential Reads 2017: Seven New Books by Our Missio Alliance Authors

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Cynthia Parker

The Tasty and Unexpected Place Where God Forms Community

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Juliet Liu

The Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2017

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Geoff Holsclaw

Who We Keep Leaving Out of Advent

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Carl Ellis

It’s Time to Emancipate our Theology from Western Culture #AlwaysReforming

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Jeremy Penn

What One Small Church Plant Learned from SheLeads

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Cherith Nordling

Melissa Pillman

Reclaiming the Trinity from Father, Son, and Holy Book #AlwaysReforming

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Andrew Arndt

The Church’s Strategy for Responding to Suffering

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Kyuboem Lee

3 Reformed Heroes for the World After Christendom #AlwaysReforming

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Adam Clark

From Empty Vessels to Rivers of Water

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Carolyn Custis James

The First Great New Testament Theologian was a Woman

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Karen Wilk

Learning from Two Female Voices: A Review of Lauren Jacobs’ Yehudit: Chosen by God

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David Fitch

How (Not) to Use the Word ‘Orthodox’: Thinking Through Faithfulness for Mission

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Derek Vreeland

Is the Cross Even Necessary?

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Nijay Gupta

The Lord’s Prayer, A Missional Reading: Lead Us Not into Temptation

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Carolyn Custis James

The ESV Takes One Small Step for “Mankind”!

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Derek Vreeland

Is Penal Substitutionary Atonement Necessary?

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Mandy Smith

How to Celebrate the Church’s Birthday through Art

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David Ramos

What to Do With Rob Bell’s “What is the Bible”

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Stephanie Lobdell

Go in Action, Go in Peace

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David Fitch

Self Talk: How to Not Pray to Yourself

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Rich Villodas

Feast! 3 Reminders for this Eastertide

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Desperate for the Spirit