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Seth Richardson

Becoming Present to God’s Presence: The Lost Pastoral Leadership Skill

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Karen Wilk

What Makes a Worship Gathering Missional? Pet Peeves and Better Practices

David Fitch

The Church is Like a Tree: Lessons on Church from Dan White jr

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Missio Alliance

Missio Alliance and Alliance Theological Seminary Band Together!

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Fred Liggin

Jesus Is My King Not My Concierge

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Karina Kreminski

Losing Our Taste For The Spectacular And Cultivating Ordinariness

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Charles Self

Missional Insights from Unusual Places: Lessons from Pope Francis, Joel Osteen and Billy Graham

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Missio Alliance

Theology on Mission Podcast #14: Why Gather For Worship?

David Fitch

To Pastors Everywhere: Let’s Discern the Antagonisms

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Marlena Graves

Everybody Loves Pope Francis!

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Tara Beth Leach

We Are Feminine (But We Won’t Fit In Your Box)

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Ruthie Johnson

It’s Time We Finally Asked: Why Multiethnic?

David Fitch

Pneumatocracy: How Church Leadership Works After Hierarchy and/or Democracy – Theology on Mission Podcast

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Bill Walker

She Spoke With (and On) Authority, Generosity, Spirit: A Tribute to Phyllis Tickle

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission #13: The Spirit of Leadership: Beyond Hierarchy and Democracy in the Church

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Derek Vreeland

Virtual Community is No Community at All

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Missio Alliance

Why You Should Come to Streaming at Rochester College, October 8-10

David Fitch

Preaching and the Shaping of a Church Into Mission: Theology On Mission Podcast

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Ty Grigg

Redeeming Sex in the Age of Obergefell

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Jason Butler

How Jesus Preached the Kingdom and Flipped the Script on Poverty

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #12: What is Preaching and Why Bother?

David Fitch

Not a Hierarchy, Not a Democracy, But a Pneumatocracy: The Church’s True Politics

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Seth Richardson

Becoming Weaker for Mission

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #11: Patriarchy Effects All Of Us, Even the Men

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Karina Kreminski

Should We Still Call God Father?

David Fitch

How to Engage Culture or is it cultures (plural)? Theology On Mission Podcast #10

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Jeff Meyers

The JFK Question and Christian Community

David Fitch

Is There Ever a Time to Say Nothing and Be Present?: On Not Submitting to the Antagonism

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Karina Kreminski

The “Unproductive” Season in Church Planting

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #10: Our Place in Cultures of Power?

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Ruthie Johnson

What does Multiethnic even mean for the Church?

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Nijay Gupta

Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys with Richard Twiss

David Fitch

The Word Became a Book? Theology And Mission Podcast #9

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #9: The Word Became…a Book?

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Charles Self

Nurturing Life: Pastoral Insights For Parents

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Geoff Holsclaw

“Stop Talking about Hell, it’s the Money”: Economics/Politics of Grace

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Missio Alliance

Introducing the Missio Monday Roundup + Resource – The Week’s Best Links Plus FREE DOWNLOADS!

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Seth Richardson

Addicted to Dysfunction: Healing from Missional Misery

David Fitch

To Change The World by James Davison Hunter: Five Years Later

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Karen Wilk

Could Discerning Be About Going?

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Eric Paul

We May Not Yet Be Non-Violent – But We Are Becoming Non-Violent in Christ

David Fitch

Justice is too Relational to Be a Program at your Local Church! THEOLOGY AND MISSION Podcast

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Bill Walker

Abortion, Matt Chandler, and How Not to Preach Ideology

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Derek Vreeland

Sticks, Stones, and Social Media: Words That Accuse and Words That Reconcile

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Kris Beckert

Seeding a New Community of Women in Church Planting

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Ty Grigg

Church Membership: What Is It Good For?

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #8: On Not Just Adding Justice

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Tara Beth Leach

Dear Bill Hybels and Other Men Who Affirm Women in Ministry

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Missio Alliance

The Sunday Missio Post, 8.9.15

Dennis R. Edwards

Deep Breaths

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Matt Tebbe

Am I Really Non-Violent?

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John Hawthorne

The Patrick Option

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Missio Alliance

Theology On Mission Podcast #7: Not Sharing THAT Gospel

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Kris Beckert

Race, Gender, Justice: How Should the Church Respond When People Reach the Boiling Point?

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Missio Alliance

10 Reasons Our Existing Church Planting Conferences Aren’t Enough

David Fitch

Missional Church is Nothing But …

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Karina Kreminski

The Spirituality of Jesus: Stop and Go?

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Missio Alliance

The Sunday Missio Post, 8.2.15

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Nijay Gupta

Jesus Was Not A “Giver” – He Was Much, Much More

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Tara Beth Leach

Hellfire In Heels or Daughters of the Resurrection?