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The Colonization of Christian Leadership
Conformation to the Image of Jesus
Five Steps to Marathon Together in Peacemaking and Justice Seeking
Pandemics Aren’t So Unprecedented: What We Can Learn from Early Christians
In Search of White Partners: What BIPOC Need
The Cost of Unity
The Post-COVID Church: Four Crucial Lessons from the ‘None-Zone’
Why Ecclesiology Matters in the Age of COVID-19
A Moment or a Movement?
Three Relationships Every Church Needs…Especially Now
“Pastor, Can’t We Just Preach The Gospel?”
Ecclesiology in this Weird Time of Social Distancing
Our New Reality: Holy Week at Home
Book Excerpt: Seeing Jesus in East Harlem
The Age of the Artist
Five Reasons Why Predictions Matter: Looking to the Next Decade in the Church
Ministering to Multiracial Families Starts with Noticing
Pray for Holy Boldness
How the Church Can Help in the Hood
In Praise of the Church’s Substance over Style
From Mundane Ministry to the Presence of God
Preventing the #MeToo Pain of Children
The Local Church is a Living Sign of Hope
An Unexpected Story of Church Partnership
Your Church Might Be a 501c3 but Your 501c3 Might Not Always Be the Church
The Economy is Making Many Jobs Obsolete—How Churches Can Be Different
We are Not Overcome! Calling the Church to Her True Vocation
Four Practices to Help You (and Your Ministry) Break Free from “Slaveholder Religion”
Young Leaders: Here Are 10 Ways to “Lead Up” for Reconciliation and Racial Justice
3 Ways We Must Reimagine Our Ecclesiology in a Post-Willow Creek World
3 Practices to Stay on Mission in a Fast-Gentrifying Landscape
A Brief Theology of Walls
A Man of Honor: What Same-Sex-Attracted Christians Can Give the Church
Why Your Church Resists the Change that Could Save It—and What to Do About It
Classism Exists in the Church—and It’s Hurting All of Us
Reading the Bible Together When We Don’t Agree
Whatever You Do, Do Not “Just Do It”
Sexual Misconduct at Willow Creek: Why We Must Bid the Business Model of Church Goodbye
Trauma from Abuse: How the Church Can Care for Those Seeking Healing
Is (Healthy) Cross-Gendered Ministry Even Possible?
Churches Who Support Foster Care Do These Five Things
Emboldened for Mission and Ministry: An Interview with Tara Beth Leach
To Leaders in 2018: Why You Must Lead Us in Lament (and How)
The Last Evangelical
Armed Only with Vulnerability: Sean Palmer on the Mission of God
Essential Reads 2017: Seven New Books by Our Missio Alliance Authors
The Church in a Violent World
SheLeads because SheFollows
A Lament to God for Christ the Immigrant
Served or Serving: Curing the Sickness That’s Killing The Church
Being Black, a Woman and an Evangelical
The Church’s Transformative Power is Molecular
Millennials are Leaving the Church, Who Cares?
Four Things You Need to Know about American Civil Religion
Insights from “Silence”—The Embrace of Despisement
Four Images of Jesus’ Ministry that Would Bomb on Social Media
Pentecost Prayer for a Confined Spirit
What the Church Could Learn from Oprah
How I Learned to Love the Easter Parking Lot
