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The Common Good: What is Freedom For?

Walking Toward Shalom: Hospice Wisdom for a Declining Church

Finding Our Voice: Introducing the 2024 Writing Fellows Cohort

What Art Does: An Artmaker’s Wisdom on Life and Leadership

Seek the Welfare of the City

Unexpected Disaster (The Broad Path)

Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression

A False Dichotomy: Am I Black or Am I Christian?

Walking Amongst Our Dry Bones

Flourishing and Cruciformity: Paradoxical Tensions in the Christian Life

The Longest Night in the South: Winter is a Time for Enchantment

Why Haven’t We Made More Progress?

Every Bombed Village Is My Hometown

Theopoetics: Breathing Fresh Life into Faith Communities (Part 2)

Theopoetics: Breathing Fresh Life into Faith Communities (Part 1)

In the House of Belonging: Healing Church Hurt Through Church (Part 2)

In the House of Belonging: Healing Church Hurt Through Church (Part 1)

Standing in the Middle of the World: A Bicultural Story of Finding Belonging

Assimilation Displaces, and the Church is Complicit

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 2)

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 1)

Embracing Your Vocation for the Second Half of Life

The Essential Need for Integrity in Leaders and Systems (Part 2)

The Essential Need for Integrity in Leaders and Systems (Part 1)

A Joyful Orientation

The Church is Strangely Fascinated with Youthfulness

The Elimination of Friction: An Opposing Perspective Is Deeply Formative

Disruption in the Life of the Church: Then

Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression

What Shall We Do With Our Anger?

Resting in the Divine Current

Our Deep Desire is to be Witnessed

The Spiritual Discipline of Ignoring White Christianity

A Poetic Theology of the Cross: A Conversation with Brian Zahnd and Mandy Smith

Heaven at Our Fingertips

Q&A with Dr. MaryKate Morse: On Hierarchy, Authority, and Stewarding Power Well

Awakening to Creation is Key for Flourishing Churches in Post-Christendom

Hierarchy: A Word Christian Leaders Can Confuse with the Dark and Love to Hate

The Blessing of Discomfort: A Global Church Perspective

Injecting the Tonic of Humility: Could Political Healing Come From An Unexpected Quarter?

I Need A Good Shout!

The State of the Church in America Through the Lens of Contemplation

Informed But Not Transformed: The Power of Art in Our Formation (Pt. 2)

Informed But Not Transformed: Critiquing the Banking System of Education (Pt. 1)

To Keep A True Lent

The Loaves and Fish Paradox: Planting a Church While Bi-Vocational

The Disruption of Life

2023: A Year In Review

Politic, Not Party

Tired of Feeling Guilty for Feeling Tired

Reflectively Listening to a New Year

Rachel Weeping for Her Children

Blue Christmas: Is it Really the Most Wonderful Time of the Year?

Advent: Expressible Joy

Advent: The Poet of Peace

Advent: Hope is a Mountain

Advent: Watching and Waiting For God
