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The Spiritual Discipline of Ignoring White Christianity
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March 21, 2024
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Hungry People and Full People
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June 29, 2022
How Our Ignorance Slows Racial Justice and What We Can Do About It
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June 1, 2022
Burning Away Barriers and Blowing Down Walls
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May 7, 2021
Five Reasons for the Church to Celebrate Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
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May 1, 2019
Four Practices to Help You (and Your Ministry) Break Free from “Slaveholder Religion”
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December 14, 2018
The Greatest Obstacle to the Gospel Today: Racism and the White Church
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December 4, 2018
The Dominant Approach to Leadership in the Church and Why Jesus Means to Upend It
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May 28, 2018
Why Theology Must Take on Flesh and Bone and Breathe into Everyday Life
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April 10, 2018
Shall We Go Be Among The Oppressed? Reflections on James Cone’s, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” (Part 1)
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June 19, 2017
Black Women in Rwanda, and their Hope for Reconciliation
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February 9, 2017
Dialogue with TGC’s Trevin Wax: Gratitude and Differences
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January 10, 2017
“Silence” Plumbs the Depths of Suffering, Priesthood, and Apostasy
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October 13, 2016
Three Principles for Navigating Gender, Patriarchy, Binaries and Other Complex Issues in the Church (Gender and the Gospel Part 2)
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July 20, 2016
“Band of Brothers”: The Very Young, Very Male Face of Boston’s Church Planting Movement
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February 22, 2016
Is Non-Violence a Historic Christian Value?
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February 1, 2016
Muslims and Christians: Reframing the “Same God” Debate
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November 27, 2015
Fear, Faith, and Nationalism in the Era of Terrorism
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June 26, 2015
Unsanctified Mercy: Integrating Compassion and Conviction for Human Flourishing
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January 20, 2015
#TrulyHuman Body Politics: Tortured Bodies, Black Bodies, and the Resurrected Body
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August 15, 2014
A Christian Response to Iraq and ISIS (Islamic State)
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June 13, 2014
A New and Powerful Pentecost
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April 9, 2014
On World Vision and Black Sheep
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March 24, 2014
Free Resource: The Gospel and Peacemaking (Tim Keel, Keas Keasler)
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February 17, 2014
A Theology of Nonviolence
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February 13, 2014
Christianity & Violence: A Call for Submissions
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January 21, 2014
Is the Church Jesus? Arguing for a Closer Relationship between Jesus, His Reign and the Church, and being alright with that!
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October 2, 2013
The Scandal of the Evangelical Memory, Part 4 of 5
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August 27, 2013
“Knitting While Detroit Burns?”: The Reformed “Both/And” versus the Anabaptist “First/ Then”
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March 12, 2010
A NEW KIND OF INCLUSIVITY: Before I Talk about Women in Ministry and GLBT Relations
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November 4, 2009
IMAGES THAT HELP US THINK ABOUT THE NEW SITUATION WE ARE IN #1: The Image of “THE OTHER” and Post Christendom Evangelism
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August 30, 2007
Epilogue on Egalitarianism: What I Learned – the good, the bad and the ugly.
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August 1, 2007
Thank You Alan Hirsch and Other Missional Friends
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February 3, 2007
Pluralism and the Witness of an Open Community: Take 2
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The Sunday Morning Post, 2.16.14
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February 9, 2014
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November 20, 2024
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October 10, 2024
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April 26, 2024
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March 19, 2024
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March 7, 2024
The Blessing of Discomfort: A Global Church Perspective
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January 16, 2024
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Holding Vigil: Beneath a Binary Perspective on the Israeli War in Gaza
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October 4, 2023
The Sterility of the Empty Cross
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August 31, 2023
Metanoia: Wholehearted Change in Unprecedented Times
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August 18, 2023
The American Church: Has God Left The Building?
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May 25, 2023
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May 9, 2023
The Sights & Sounds of Awakenings 2023
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May 2, 2023
Disruption Doesn’t Have The Last Word; New Life Does
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April 18, 2023
Recent Developments in the CRT Culture Wars
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March 24, 2023
10 Things I’m (Still) Learning as a Pastor
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March 9, 2023
Grounding Our Gospel with Prayers for the Slain
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February 2, 2023
A Clear Vision for the Future: The Corrective Lens of Black Theology (Pt. 2)
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January 31, 2023
A Clear Vision for the Future: Re-Examining The Anabaptist Vision for Today (Pt. 1)
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July 20, 2022
Disarming Patriarchy
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June 22, 2022
Contemplative Spirituality Provides a Trauma-Informed Approach to Growing Healthier Churches
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May 18, 2022
Racial Transformation Begins in Your Home
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April 27, 2022
Immigrants—the Best Hope for Christian Renewal in America
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March 15, 2022