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Missio Alliance

Christendom is Crumbling and It’s Not Pretty: A True Story of Christian Persecution of Christians

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Tara Beth Leach

What Women Most Need From Our Brothers in Christ After #ChurchToo

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

All Our Children: How Churches Can Respond to the Crisis at the Border

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Steve Dancause

The Trinity, the Image of God, and How Women Have Been Left Out of the Picture [An Interview with Deb Gregory]

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Derek Vreeland

We’ve Gotten Salvation All Wrong: Let’s Reclaim the Heart of Christian Discipleship

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Mandy Smith

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

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Bonnie Kristian

How To Disagree About Theology Without Kicking Each Other Out of the Church

Featured image for “Churches Who Support Foster Care Do These Five Things”
Gena Thomas

Churches Who Support Foster Care Do These Five Things

Featured image for “Dear Millennials and Nones, Meet the Rest of the Family”
Bonnie Kristian

Dear Millennials and Nones, Meet the Rest of the Family

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Karina Kreminski

3 Practices that Welcome Heaven Into Your Neighborhood

Featured image for “6 Ways Christians Speak A New World Into Existence”
Mandy Smith

6 Ways Christians Speak A New World Into Existence

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Kris Beckert

How to Stand Where Jesus Stands – the Messy Middle

Featured image for “Pretending Power Dynamics Don’t Exist Can Be Just as Dangerous As Abusing Power”
Adam Gustine

Pretending Power Dynamics Don’t Exist Can Be Just as Dangerous As Abusing Power

Featured image for “Did Jesus Really Usher in the Kingdom of God?”
Derek Vreeland

Did Jesus Really Usher in the Kingdom of God?

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Steve Dancause

What We’ve Failed to See About Being Created in God’s Image

Featured image for “When Ministry Leads to Resentment – What Do You Do?”
Christy Rood

When Ministry Leads to Resentment – What Do You Do?

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Deb Gregory

Prayer as Liminal Space with Alice Fryling

Featured image for “Overcoming Scarcity Thinking in Post-Christian Mission (A Lesson from Gandalf)”
Mandy Smith

Overcoming Scarcity Thinking in Post-Christian Mission (A Lesson from Gandalf)

Featured image for “5 Ways Your Predominantly White Church Can Work for Racial Justice and Reconciliation”
Rich Villodas

5 Ways Your Predominantly White Church Can Work for Racial Justice and Reconciliation

Featured image for “Shall We Go Be Among The Oppressed? James Cone’s, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” (Part 2)”
David Fitch

Shall We Go Be Among The Oppressed? James Cone’s, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” (Part 2)

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David Fitch

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

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Dennis R. Edwards

Christian Nationalism is Anti-Gospel

Featured image for “Should Men Mentor Women Even After #MeToo?”
Karina Kreminski

Should Men Mentor Women Even After #MeToo?

Featured image for “Evangelism, Discipleship, and Spiritual Formation: Which is What?”
MaryKate Morse

Evangelism, Discipleship, and Spiritual Formation: Which is What?

Featured image for “3 Forgotten Reasons Jesus Died”
Geoff Holsclaw

3 Forgotten Reasons Jesus Died

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Deb Gregory

The Way of the Cross: A Meditative Guide for Holy Week

Featured image for “The Surprising Power of Those on the Margins (and how it can be abused)”
Mandy Smith

The Surprising Power of Those on the Margins (and how it can be abused)

Featured image for “A Lenten Prayer of Repentance for When We Have Failed Our Neighborhood”
Karen Wilk

A Lenten Prayer of Repentance for When We Have Failed Our Neighborhood

Featured image for “The Defiant Act of Prophetic “Foolishness” in Serious Times”
Mandy Smith

The Defiant Act of Prophetic “Foolishness” in Serious Times

Featured image for “Whose Job Is It to Care for the Poor?”
Paul Koshy

Whose Job Is It to Care for the Poor?

Featured image for “American Christians: Are We Being Formed by Christ or Capitalism?”
Emily Beth Hill

American Christians: Are We Being Formed by Christ or Capitalism?

Featured image for “In A World of Enmity, Christ Calls us To Empathy – Here’s What We Have to Know and Do”
Dorothy Littell Greco

In A World of Enmity, Christ Calls us To Empathy – Here’s What We Have to Know and Do

Featured image for “Guns in the Kingdom of God: An Eschatological Appeal to End Gun Proliferation”
Derek Vreeland

Guns in the Kingdom of God: An Eschatological Appeal to End Gun Proliferation

Featured image for “How Can A Church Witness Well in the Aftermath of Sexual Abuse?”
Jim Van Yperen

How Can A Church Witness Well in the Aftermath of Sexual Abuse?

Featured image for “Saving Our Sexuality, Part 2: On Dealing with Abuse in the Church”
Andrew Arndt

Saving Our Sexuality, Part 2: On Dealing with Abuse in the Church

Featured image for “What I’m Doing to Kindle My Hope That God is Making All Things New: Will You Join Me?”
Mandy Smith

What I’m Doing to Kindle My Hope That God is Making All Things New: Will You Join Me?

Featured image for “Wakanda, Blackness, and the Kingdom of God”
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Wakanda, Blackness, and the Kingdom of God

Featured image for “Emboldened for Mission and Ministry: An Interview with Tara Beth Leach”
Derek Vreeland

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

Featured image for “Parkland and the Continued Problem with Thoughts and Prayers”
Rich Villodas

Parkland and the Continued Problem with Thoughts and Prayers

Featured image for “How the Cross Overcomes Love of Power with the Power of Love: An Interview with Derek Vreeland”
Derek Vreeland

How the Cross Overcomes Love of Power with the Power of Love: An Interview with Derek Vreeland

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Amy Ickes

Church Leaders, Take This Advice from One Single Person

Featured image for “A Lenten Journey for Healing Gender Relations”
MaryKate Morse

A Lenten Journey for Healing Gender Relations

Featured image for “Is Learning from Women Essential for Your Pastoral Competence?”
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Is Learning from Women Essential for Your Pastoral Competence?

Featured image for “Self-Awareness and the Enneagram: A Response to Kevin DeYoung”
Derek Vreeland

Self-Awareness and the Enneagram: A Response to Kevin DeYoung

Featured image for “Saving Our Sexuality: Is #MeToo Enough?”
Andrew Arndt

Saving Our Sexuality: Is #MeToo Enough?

Featured image for “On the Eagles, the Super Bowl, and the Idols in All Our Cities”
J.R. Briggs

On the Eagles, the Super Bowl, and the Idols in All Our Cities

Featured image for “Why I Needed Women Seminary Professors: A Response to John Piper”
Dennis R. Edwards

Why I Needed Women Seminary Professors: A Response to John Piper

Featured image for “Why John Piper Needs Help from Female Seminary Professors”
Carolyn Custis James

Why John Piper Needs Help from Female Seminary Professors

Featured image for “Three Ways Declining Churches Become Thriving Churches: An Invitation to Explore Fresh Expressions”
Verlon Fosner

Three Ways Declining Churches Become Thriving Churches: An Invitation to Explore Fresh Expressions

Featured image for “Feel Powerless in Your Efforts to Invite Minority Voices? You May be Closer to a Way Forward Than You Think!”
Mandy Smith

Feel Powerless in Your Efforts to Invite Minority Voices? You May be Closer to a Way Forward Than You Think!

Featured image for “To Leaders in 2018: Why You Must Lead Us in Lament (and How)”
Gena Thomas

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

Featured image for “Finding the Strength to Love from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Lesa Engelthaler

Finding the Strength to Love from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Featured image for “The Generation that Must Save Evangelicalism from Its Moral Compromises”
Brandon Colbert

The Generation that Must Save Evangelicalism from Its Moral Compromises

Featured image for “Evangelicalism: It’s a Brand, but it’s Also a Space”
Dan Stringer

Evangelicalism: It’s a Brand, but it’s Also a Space

Featured image for “The Last Evangelical”
Geoff Holsclaw

The Last Evangelical

Featured image for “A Trinitarian Vision of Spiritual Transformation”
Derek Vreeland

A Trinitarian Vision of Spiritual Transformation

Featured image for “The Silence Breakers: A Kairos Moment for the Church”
Carolyn Custis James

The Silence Breakers: A Kairos Moment for the Church

Featured image for “Armed Only with Vulnerability: Sean Palmer on the Mission of God”
Derek Vreeland

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

Featured image for “Dennis Edwards on Letting the Marginalized Lead Us: An Interview by Shane Blackshear”
Shane Blackshear

Dennis R. Edwards

Dennis Edwards on Letting the Marginalized Lead Us: An Interview by Shane Blackshear

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