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Are You Ready for the Jerk Apocalypse?

The Past Breaks into the Present

Why Christians Need to Stop Endorsing ALL Candidates

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

A Holy People: The Jesus Way of Changing the World

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

How Frank Peretti Helps Us Work Against Racism

Four Competing Worldviews You Can’t Escape

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

Why Church Death is Healthy

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

Loving My Neighbor Without Justifying Myself

How (not) To Defend Women in Ministry

Why I Left the Band of Brothers for a Blessed Alliance

God’s Surprises and Female Harvesters

Can A Female Preacher (or President) Be Herself?

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

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

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

What A Church Plant Teaches Us About Women in Ministry

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

Becoming a Secular Church

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

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

Indispensable: Women Who Plant Churches

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

Speaking the Truth about Race in Love

Wounded Reconcilers

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

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

38 Resources to Help Your Church Start Discussing Race Today

A Prayer for Peace

Saving the Males

Do I Make Plans or Share Stories?

when death is so near

Missions Pastor: Five Ways You Can Abandon Colonialism

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

How Do You Lead Without Being Toxic?

It’s OK to be Patriotic, But…

Gun Control Debates: Our Social Madness and a Spiritual Response

The Battle We Must Fight

What Must The Church Do In Times Of Global Turbulence?

The Politics of Trump and the Politics of Jesus

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

Is Trump the End of Evangelicalism?

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

Four Practices to Help Your Church Grieve Personal and National Tragedy

Reclaiming God’s Intent for Sabbath

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

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

Preached to Death

The Orlando Shooting: Who Would Jesus Blame?

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

How Lament Quells the Terrorist in Each of Us

Avoiding the Blow-down from Helicopter Pastoring
Four Images of Jesus’ Ministry that Would Bomb on Social Media

Rape: Five Ways Your Church Can Talk About It

Three Tenets for a New Kind of Gospel-Centeredness

Knowing God in a Secular World
