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Grace Humbles

The Local Church is a Living Sign of Hope

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Wendy Gierhart

An Unexpected Story of Church Partnership

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Leeann Younger

Your Church Might Be a 501c3 but Your 501c3 Might Not Always Be the Church

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Anthony Siegrist

The Economy is Making Many Jobs Obsolete—How Churches Can Be Different

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Mandy Smith

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

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Leeann Younger

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

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David Swanson

Young Leaders: Here Are 10 Ways to “Lead Up” for Reconciliation and Racial Justice

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David Fitch

3 Ways We Must Reimagine Our Ecclesiology in a Post-Willow Creek World

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Leeann Younger

3 Practices to Stay on Mission in a Fast-Gentrifying Landscape

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Geoff Holsclaw

A Brief Theology of Walls

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Emily Hallock

A Man of Honor: What Same-Sex-Attracted Christians Can Give the Church

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Kris Beckert

Why Your Church Resists the Change that Could Save It—and What to Do About It

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Matt Ingalls

Classism Exists in the Church—and It’s Hurting All of Us

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David Fitch

Reading the Bible Together When We Don’t Agree

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Greg McKinzie

Whatever You Do, Do Not “Just Do It”

Featured image for “Sexual Misconduct at Willow Creek: Why We Must Bid the Business Model of Church Goodbye”
Joy Craun

Sexual Misconduct at Willow Creek: Why We Must Bid the Business Model of Church Goodbye

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MaryKate Morse

Trauma from Abuse: How the Church Can Care for Those Seeking Healing

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Seth Richardson

Is (Healthy) Cross-Gendered Ministry Even Possible?

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Gena Thomas

Churches Who Support Foster Care Do These Five Things

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Derek Vreeland

Emboldened for Mission and Ministry: An Interview with Tara Beth Leach

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Gena Thomas

To Leaders in 2018: Why You Must Lead Us in Lament (and How)

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Geoff Holsclaw

The Last Evangelical

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Derek Vreeland

Armed Only with Vulnerability: Sean Palmer on the Mission of God

Featured image for “Essential Reads 2017: Seven New Books by Our Missio Alliance Authors”
Juliet Liu

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

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Andrew Arndt

The Church in a Violent World

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Mandy Smith

SheLeads because SheFollows

Featured image for “A Lament to God for Christ the Immigrant”
Gena Thomas

A Lament to God for Christ the Immigrant

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Sean Palmer

Served or Serving: Curing the Sickness That’s Killing The Church

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Being Black, a Woman and an Evangelical

Featured image for “The Church’s Transformative Power is Molecular”
Mandy Smith

The Church’s Transformative Power is Molecular

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Millennials are Leaving the Church, Who Cares?

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Derek Vreeland

Four Things You Need to Know about American Civil Religion

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Nikki Toyama-Szeto

Insights from “Silence”—The Embrace of Despisement

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Kris Beckert

Four Images of Jesus’ Ministry that Would Bomb on Social Media

Featured image for “Pentecost Prayer for a Confined Spirit”
Mandy Smith

Pentecost Prayer for a Confined Spirit

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MaryKate Morse

What the Church Could Learn from Oprah

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Kris Beckert

How I Learned to Love the Easter Parking Lot

Featured image for “The Lord’s Prayer, A Missional Reading: Our Father in Heaven”
Nijay Gupta

The Lord’s Prayer, A Missional Reading: Our Father in Heaven

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Seth Richardson

A Church-less Mission?

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Tara Beth Leach

A Call For Joy (Even in the Dark Spaces of Our World)

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Mandy Smith

Is the Church a Whore?

Featured image for “Theology On Mission Podcast #16: The Local Church is Going…Local”
Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #16: The Local Church is Going…Local

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Derek Vreeland

Virtual Community is No Community at All

Featured image for “Race, Gender, Justice: How Should the Church Respond When People Reach the Boiling Point?”
Kris Beckert

Race, Gender, Justice: How Should the Church Respond When People Reach the Boiling Point?

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Nijay Gupta

Jesus Was Not A “Giver” – He Was Much, Much More

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Missio Alliance

#TrulyHuman Conference Audio Has Arrived – Name Your Price For These Amazing Downloads!

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Charles Self

Pentecost Reimagined For the 21st Century

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Ruthie Johnson

On Being Truly Human in Spiritual Formation and Discipleship

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Missio Alliance

Celebrate Resurrection: Win a FREE Registration to the #TrulyHuman Gathering!

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Missio Alliance

#ChurchTrending: A Brand New Blog Conversation and a Call for Submissions!

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Derek Vreeland

Where We Can Find the Spirit at Work

Efrem Smith

Truth, Justice, and Righteousness

Efrem Smith

A Systems Approach to the Multicultural Church

Efrem Smith

Marriage as Ministry (Part Two)