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Seth Richardson

Are You Ready for the Jerk Apocalypse?

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Carolyn Custis James

The Past Breaks into the Present

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Bill Walker

Why Christians Need to Stop Endorsing ALL Candidates

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Karina Kreminski

Four Practices that Turn ‘Loving Your Neighborhood’ Into a Spiritual Discipline

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Derek Vreeland

A Holy People: The Jesus Way of Changing the World

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Sean Palmer

When God Reveals You Prefer Whiteness: A Response to Gaye Clark

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David Fitch

How Frank Peretti Helps Us Work Against Racism

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Gailyn Van Rheenen

Four Competing Worldviews You Can’t Escape

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Mandy Smith

The Spirit Is Not Optional: Embracing the Danger and the Comfort of the Third Person of God

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Kris Beckert

Why Church Death is Healthy

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Nijay Gupta

The Lord’s Prayer, A Missional Reading: Forgive us

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Seth Richardson

Loving My Neighbor Without Justifying Myself

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Alexis Waggoner

How (not) To Defend Women in Ministry

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Frank James

Why I Left the Band of Brothers for a Blessed Alliance

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Laurel Coolbaugh

God’s Surprises and Female Harvesters

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Mandy Smith

Can A Female Preacher (or President) Be Herself?

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Larry Kim

Three Steps Churches Have to Take if They Want More Diverse Leadership

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Carolyn Custis James

Black & White Bible, Black & Blue Wife—A Review

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Emily Nielsen Jones

Am I a Prophet, Priest, or King? A Hidden All-Male Leadership Typology Many Church Planters Are Bringing to Boston

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David Fitch

What A Church Plant Teaches Us About Women in Ministry

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Dave Swaim

Why Women Don’t Plant Churches (and How to Change It)

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Bill Walker

Becoming a Secular Church

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Kelly Ladd Bishop

Godless Land or Revival City? It Depends on Your Theology of Gender

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Emily Nielsen Jones

“Band of Brothers”:  The Very Young, Very Male Face of Boston’s Church Planting Movement 

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Carolyn Custis James

Indispensable: Women Who Plant Churches

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MaryKate Morse

A Weary Traveler’s Confession and Reflection: The Story our ‘Bodies’ Tell

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Kyuboem Lee

Speaking the Truth about Race in Love

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Efrem Smith

Wounded Reconcilers

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Geoff Holsclaw

Don’t Crash the Trinity: The Form of God and Form of a Servant

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Noah Stepro

What Can Be Done About the Overwhelming Burden of “Macro-Guilt”?

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Missio Alliance

38 Resources to Help Your Church Start Discussing Race Today

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Graham Joseph Hill

A Prayer for Peace

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Carolyn Custis James

Saving the Males

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Karen Wilk

Do I Make Plans or Share Stories?

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Ruthie Johnson

when death is so near

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Gena Thomas

Missions Pastor: Five Ways You Can Abandon Colonialism

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David Fitch

Donald Trump as King David?: On Discerning God’s Work in the World

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Mac McCarthy

How Do You Lead Without Being Toxic?

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Derek Vreeland

It’s OK to be Patriotic, But…

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MaryKate Morse

Gun Control Debates: Our Social Madness and a Spiritual Response

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Carolyn Custis James

The Battle We Must Fight

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Karina Kreminski

What Must The Church Do In Times Of Global Turbulence?

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Derek Vreeland

The Politics of Trump and the Politics of Jesus

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

“The Free State of Jones” And The Cost of Freedom

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Geoff Holsclaw

Is Trump the End of Evangelicalism?

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Fred Liggin

An Atheist, A Pastor, and the Presence of God’s Spirit Between Us

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Missio Alliance

Four Practices to Help Your Church Grieve Personal and National Tragedy

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Michelle Van Loon

Reclaiming God’s Intent for Sabbath

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Graham Joseph Hill

7 Practices for Hearing and Responding to the Margins (Especially During Elections)

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Geoff Holsclaw

Eternal Submission? Thinking (all the way) Through the Issue

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Seth Richardson

Preached to Death

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Matt Tebbe

The Orlando Shooting: Who Would Jesus Blame?

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Karina Kreminski

What if We Stopped the Token Talk and Welcomed Female Preachers?

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Mandy Smith

How Lament Quells the Terrorist in Each of Us

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Nikki Toyama-Szeto

Avoiding the Blow-down from Helicopter Pastoring

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Kris Beckert

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

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April Karli

Rape: Five Ways Your Church Can Talk About It

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Bill Walker

Three Tenets for a New Kind of Gospel-Centeredness

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Stephen Waldron

Knowing God in a Secular World

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Dennis R. Edwards

The Crucial Gift