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Amber H. Jones

The Common Good: What is Freedom For?

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Amanda Hecht

Walking Toward Shalom: Hospice Wisdom for a Declining Church

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Chris Kamalski

Oneya Okuwobi

Finding Our Voice: Introducing the 2024 Writing Fellows Cohort

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Mandy Smith

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

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Chris Kamalski

Seek the Welfare of the City

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Rich Villodas

Unexpected Disaster (The Broad Path)

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Dennis R. Edwards

Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression

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Joylanda Jamison

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

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Alex Booker

Walking Amongst Our Dry Bones

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Sahr Mbriwa

Flourishing and Cruciformity: Paradoxical Tensions in the Christian Life

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Karina Kreminski

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

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Nicole Doyley

Why Haven’t We Made More Progress?

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Todd Deatherage

Every Bombed Village Is My Hometown

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Michelle Winter

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

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Michelle Winter

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

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Katelyn J. Dixon

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

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Katelyn J. Dixon

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

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Prasanta Verma

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

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Eun Strawser

Assimilation Displaces, and the Church is Complicit

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Carolyn Custis James

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 2)

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Carolyn Custis James

Dismantling Patriarchy to Recover the Blessed Alliance (Part 1)

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Trisha Welstad

Embracing Your Vocation for the Second Half of Life

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MaryKate Morse

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

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MaryKate Morse

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

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Josiah Hoagland

A Joyful Orientation

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Daniel E. Harris

The Church is Strangely Fascinated with Youthfulness

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Jason Gaboury

The Elimination of Friction: An Opposing Perspective Is Deeply Formative

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Dennis R. Edwards

Disruption in the Life of the Church: Then

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Dennis R. Edwards

Listening to Black Voices Experiencing Oppression

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Andrew Arndt

What Shall We Do With Our Anger?

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Mandy Smith

Resting in the Divine Current

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Phillip Lewis

Our Deep Desire is to be Witnessed

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David Swanson

The Spiritual Discipline of Ignoring White Christianity

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Mandy Smith

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

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Katelyn J. Dixon

Heaven at Our Fingertips

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MaryKate Morse

Missio Alliance

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

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Mark Glanville

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

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MaryKate Morse

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

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Ruth Padilla DeBorst

The Blessing of Discomfort: A Global Church Perspective

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Ian McFadden

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

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

I Need A Good Shout!

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Tracy Mathews

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

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Steve Noble

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

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Steve Noble

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

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Chris Kamalski

Missio Alliance

To Keep A True Lent

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Macho Lara

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

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Miriam Swanson

The Disruption of Life

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Missio Alliance

2023: A Year In Review

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Jason Barnhart

Politic, Not Party

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Mandy Smith

Tired of Feeling Guilty for Feeling Tired

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Missio Alliance

Chris Kamalski

Reflectively Listening to a New Year

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MaryKate Morse

Rachel Weeping for Her Children

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Mayra Ramos

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

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Eun Strawser

Advent: Expressible Joy

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Derek Vreeland

Advent: The Poet of Peace

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Ted Kim

Advent: Hope is a Mountain

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Andrew Arndt

Advent: Watching and Waiting For God

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Dennis R. Edwards

Advent: The Nexus of Humility, Justice, and Joy