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J.R. Briggs

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

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Dennis R. Edwards

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

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Carolyn Custis James

Why John Piper Needs Help from Female Seminary Professors

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Verlon Fosner

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

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Mandy Smith

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

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Gena Thomas

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

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Lesa Engelthaler

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

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Brandon Colbert

The Generation that Must Save Evangelicalism from Its Moral Compromises

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Dan Stringer

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

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Geoff Holsclaw

The Last Evangelical

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Derek Vreeland

A Trinitarian Vision of Spiritual Transformation

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Carolyn Custis James

The Silence Breakers: A Kairos Moment for the Church

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Derek Vreeland

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

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Shane Blackshear

Dennis R. Edwards

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

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Juliet Liu

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

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Cynthia Parker

The Tasty and Unexpected Place Where God Forms Community

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Sean Palmer

Is Your Pastor Shaped More by a Tablet or a Table?

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Juliet Liu

The Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2017

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Geoff Holsclaw

Who We Keep Leaving Out of Advent

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Ryan Kuja

Modern Mary: What a Pregnant Refugee Minority Teenager Would Sing Today

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MaryKate Morse

3 Formational Practices for Difficult Conversations Every Church Can Learn

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Mandy Smith

Here’s How You Can Guide Your Church through Gender Role Conversations

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Rich Villodas

Advent: Four Elements of “Wait Training”

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Nikki Toyama-Szeto

From #RubyWooPilgrimage to a Pilgrimage of the Ordinary

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Lesa Engelthaler

Are Thoughts and Prayers Enough for a Troubled World?

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Jin S. Kim

Reimagining Theological Education 500 Years After Calvin #AlwaysReforming

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Carl Ellis

It’s Time to Emancipate our Theology from Western Culture #AlwaysReforming

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Jeremy Penn

What One Small Church Plant Learned from SheLeads

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David Fitch

Try This Strategy: Start With Twelve

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Verlon Fosner

Church: Can We Stop Living in the 1500’s? #AlwaysReforming

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Andrew Arndt

The Church in a Violent World

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Cherith Nordling

Melissa Pillman

Reclaiming the Trinity from Father, Son, and Holy Book #AlwaysReforming

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Andrew Arndt

The Church’s Strategy for Responding to Suffering

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Bill Walker

Can We Transcend the Reformation? #AlwaysReforming

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Kyuboem Lee

3 Reformed Heroes for the World After Christendom #AlwaysReforming

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Carolyn Custis James

The Pigtails that Sparked a Revolution #AlwaysReforming

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Mandy Smith

SheLeads because SheFollows

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MaryKate Morse

4 Ways Churches Can Respond Faithfully to #MeToo

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Michael Frost

A Christian Male Response to #MeToo: Smash the Patriarchy

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Josiah Marineau

The Christian University in Trump’s America

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Missio Alliance

This Is What A Leader Looks Like

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Alexia Salvatierra

4 Ways Your Church Can Keep the Dream Alive

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Geoff Holsclaw

Man to Man: 5 Reasons I’m Going to SheLeads

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Adam Clark

From Empty Vessels to Rivers of Water

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David Fitch

How #TakeAKnee Teaches Us To Be Christian in the New Normal of American Politics

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Carolyn Custis James

The First Great New Testament Theologian was a Woman

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Shane Blackshear

The Idolatry That #TakeAKnee Disrupts

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Kris Beckert

What to Do When You Hear “Doesn’t the Bible Teach Against Women Pastors?”

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Rich Villodas

What Does Jesus Say to the #TakeAknee Issue?

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Ryan Kuja

How the Church Can Combat the Idolatry of White Mythology

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Karina Kreminski

Becoming “Homemakers” in Our Sacred Neighborhoods

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Mandy Smith

In Times of Upheaval Women Shape New Landscapes

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Antoine Lassiter

A Letter to White Church Leaders from a Black Pastor

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Gena Thomas

A Lament to God for Christ the Immigrant

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Juan Martinez

Latino Pastor: The Challenge for White Evangelicals

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Seth Richardson

Can We Stop Making Statements on Sexual Ethics?

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Karen Wilk

Learning from Two Female Voices: A Review of Lauren Jacobs’ Yehudit: Chosen by God

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Mandy Smith

The Real Cost of Female Leadership in Dollars (and Friends)

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David Fitch

How (Not) to Use the Word ‘Orthodox’: Thinking Through Faithfulness for Mission

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Bendict Atkins

Moving from One-on-One Mentorship Toward Inclusive & Effective Leadership