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The State of the Church in America Through the Lens of Contemplation
The Loaves and Fish Paradox: Planting a Church While Bi-Vocational
Politic, Not Party
Tired of Feeling Guilty for Feeling Tired
Reflectively Listening to a New Year
Blue Christmas: Is it Really the Most Wonderful Time of the Year?
Advent: Hope is a Mountain
Advent: Watching and Waiting For God
A Thanksgiving Liturgy: Before A Meal
The Church Needs Women’s Lofty Dreams
Single in the Church: How Church Practices Are Including or Excluding Single Adults
Embodied Spiritual Formation for the Mothering Pastor
Holding Vigil: Beneath a Binary Perspective on the Israeli War in Gaza
When We Are a House Divided
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
The Speed of Love
Nine Lessons For Christian Leaders (Who Also Happen To Be Female)
The American Church: Has God Left The Building?
Surprised by God at Tables: Extending the Eucharist Into the Neighborhood (Pt. 2)
Surprised by God at Tables: On The Eucharist as Mission (Pt. 1)
To Grow Nature Is To Encourage More Of It
Attending to God’s Presence While Watching My Garden
God Finds Us In Nature: An Environment of Healing (Pt. 2)
God Finds Us In Nature: A Place of Encounter (Pt. 1)
The Spiritual Practice of Summer
How to Celebrate a Meaningful Name Change: ‘Consecrated Woman in Ministry’ to Reverend
Origin Stories Matter: On Juneteenth
When a Day Off Isn’t Enough: Sabbatical Rest Sustains Pastoral Health for the Long-Haul
Pentecost DNA Forms Border-Crossing Christians
The Least of These: Reflections on Learning to Practice a Faith Without Margins
Developing an Imitation-Based Framework of Healthy Leadership in Christ (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part III)
The Radical Practice of Christian Hospitality
Called, Not Conscripted (to Celibacy)
10 Things I’m (Still) Learning as a Pastor
Reflections from the Boundary Zone
I Don’t Want God to ‘Use’ Me
Seminaries in the Crucible: What is Being Forged? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 1)
Wait for Each Other: Receiving One Another As Siblings in Christ (Pt. 2)
Truth-Telling: An Integrated Engagement With Our Differentiated Self (More Than Words, Pt. 2)
Reflection and Anticipation: Missio Alliance Staff on 2022 and the Future
Truth-Telling: A Just Movement Toward Human Flourishing (More Than Words, Pt. 1)
Sticking With It When the Church Is in Decline
A Season of Disruption: An Introduction to Our First Long-Form Series
What’s the Matter with Church Branding? (Captive to Capitalism, Part 3)
Christians and the Forgotten Federal Indian Boarding School Connection
Understanding Branding Before You Market Your Church (Captive to Capitalism, Part 2)
A Dialogue on Kingdom and Country with Angie Ward
Examining How the Economy Disciples Us (Captive to Capitalism series, Part 1)
Humility: A Missing Ingredient
How Our Ignorance Slows Racial Justice and What We Can Do About It
Juneteenth: A Day for Joy and Truth-Telling
My Southern Baptist Stories: A Plea to the Church
Yes, Your Church Can Start a Special Needs Ministry
What Does Loving Your Enemies Look Like in 2022?
Two Paths Toward Discovering Gravity and God’s Mystery
Six Ways to Respond to People Leaving Church
The Unremarkable Growth of Peace in God’s Kingdom
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