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April 2, 2024

The Spiritual Discipline of Ignoring White Christianity

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March 21, 2024

Q&A with Dr. MaryKate Morse: On Hierarchy, Authority, and Stewarding Power Well

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November 7, 2023

Hungry People and Full People

Featured image for “How Our Ignorance Slows Racial Justice and What We Can Do About It”

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June 29, 2022

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

Featured image for “Burning Away Barriers and Blowing Down Walls”

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June 1, 2022

Burning Away Barriers and Blowing Down Walls

Featured image for “Five Reasons for the Church to Celebrate Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders”

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May 7, 2021

Five Reasons for the Church to Celebrate Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Featured image for “Four Practices to Help You (and Your Ministry) Break Free from “Slaveholder Religion””

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May 1, 2019

Four Practices to Help You (and Your Ministry) Break Free from “Slaveholder Religion”

Featured image for “The Greatest Obstacle to the Gospel Today: Racism and the White Church”

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December 14, 2018

The Greatest Obstacle to the Gospel Today: Racism and the White Church

Featured image for “The Dominant Approach to Leadership in the Church and Why Jesus Means to Upend It”

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December 4, 2018

The Dominant Approach to Leadership in the Church and Why Jesus Means to Upend It

Featured image for “Why Theology Must Take on Flesh and Bone and Breathe into Everyday Life”

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May 28, 2018

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

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

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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

Featured image for “Dialogue with TGC’s Trevin Wax: Gratitude and Differences”

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February 9, 2017

Dialogue with TGC’s Trevin Wax: Gratitude and Differences

Featured image for ““Silence” Plumbs the Depths of Suffering, Priesthood, and Apostasy”

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January 10, 2017

“Silence” Plumbs the Depths of Suffering, Priesthood, and Apostasy

Featured image for “Three Principles for Navigating Gender, Patriarchy, Binaries and Other Complex Issues in the Church (Gender and the Gospel Part 2)”

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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 

Featured image for “Is Non-Violence a Historic Christian Value?”

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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

Featured image for “Fear, Faith, and Nationalism in the Era of Terrorism”

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November 27, 2015

Fear, Faith, and Nationalism in the Era of Terrorism

Featured image for “Unsanctified Mercy: Integrating Compassion and Conviction for Human Flourishing”

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June 26, 2015

Unsanctified Mercy: Integrating Compassion and Conviction for Human Flourishing

Featured image for “#TrulyHuman Body Politics: Tortured Bodies, Black Bodies, and the Resurrected Body”

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January 20, 2015

#TrulyHuman Body Politics: Tortured Bodies, Black Bodies, and the Resurrected Body

Featured image for “A Christian Response to Iraq and ISIS (Islamic State)”

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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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February 16, 2014

The Sunday Morning Post, 2.16.14

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February 9, 2014

The Sunday Morning Post, 2.9.14

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November 20, 2024

Does Character Matter in Our President?

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October 10, 2024

Faithful Approaches to Politics

Featured image for “Disruption in the Life of the Church: Then”

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April 26, 2024

Disruption in the Life of the Church: Then

Featured image for “Awakening to Creation is Key for Flourishing Churches in Post-Christendom”

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March 19, 2024

Awakening to Creation is Key for Flourishing Churches in Post-Christendom

Featured image for “The Blessing of Discomfort: A Global Church Perspective”

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March 7, 2024

The Blessing of Discomfort: A Global Church Perspective

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January 16, 2024

Politic, Not Party

Featured image for “Holding Vigil: Beneath a Binary Perspective on the Israeli War in Gaza”

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November 2, 2023

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

Featured image for “The American Church: Has God Left The Building?”

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August 18, 2023

The American Church: Has God Left The Building?

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May 25, 2023

Pentecost DNA Forms Border-Crossing Christians

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May 9, 2023

The Sights & Sounds of Awakenings 2023

Featured image for “Disruption Doesn’t Have The Last Word; New Life Does”

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May 2, 2023

Disruption Doesn’t Have The Last Word; New Life Does

Featured image for “Recent Developments in the CRT Culture Wars”

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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

Featured image for “Grounding Our Gospel with Prayers for the Slain”

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March 9, 2023

Grounding Our Gospel with Prayers for the Slain

Featured image for “A Clear Vision for the Future: The Corrective Lens of Black Theology (Pt. 2)”

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February 2, 2023

A Clear Vision for the Future: The Corrective Lens of Black Theology (Pt. 2)

Featured image for “A Clear Vision for the Future: Re-Examining The Anabaptist Vision for Today (Pt. 1)”

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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

Featured image for “Contemplative Spirituality Provides a Trauma-Informed Approach to Growing Healthier Churches”

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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

Christian Nationalism: What Defines It