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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

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Missio Alliance

A Thanksgiving Liturgy: Before A Meal

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Liz Cooledge Jenkins

The Church Needs Women’s Lofty Dreams

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Jen Ashby

Single in the Church: How Church Practices Are Including or Excluding Single Adults

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Alyssa Bell

Embodied Spiritual Formation for the Mothering Pastor

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Oneya Okuwobi

Hungry People and Full People

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Missio Alliance

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Lisa Rodriguez-Watson

Holding Vigil: Beneath a Binary Perspective on the Israeli War in Gaza

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Amy Davis Abdallah

Empty Nest: How a Ritual Helps Us Process the Losses and Gains of Our Kids Leaving Home

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David Swanson

Disrupting Legacies of White Supremacy in the Church

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MaryKate Morse

When We Are a House Divided

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Mariah Humphries

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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Andrew Arndt

The Speed of Love

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Dennae Pierre

The Sterility of the Empty Cross

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Sherin Swift

Nine Lessons For Christian Leaders (Who Also Happen To Be Female)

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Jared Patrick Boyd

Keep Yourselves in the Love of God

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Eun Strawser

Loneliness is the Penalty for Women Leaders

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Matthew Watson

Finding Rest Amidst the Days of Labor

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Alan Hirsch

Metanoia: Wholehearted Change in Unprecedented Times

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Michelle Ferrigno Warren

Dr. King Shines a Light Forward for Justice Work Today (‘I Have A Dream’ 60th Anniversary Version)

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Seth Richardson

Negotiating Difference (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 3)

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Derek Vreeland

Interrogating ‘Tough Guy’ Masculinity

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Mariah Humphries

The American Church: Has God Left The Building?

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MaryKate Morse

Why Go to Seminary?

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Graham Joseph Hill

‘Holisticostal Mission:’ Paradigm Shifts in Theology and Practice (Pt. 2)

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Graham Joseph Hill

‘Holisticostal Mission:’ Paradigm Shifts in Theology and Practice (Pt. 1)

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Isabel Tom

The Gift Underneath Our Wrinkles: Is Aging Actually A Grace?

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Seth Richardson

Excessive Spirituality (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 2)

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Gino Curcuruto

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Gino Curcuruto

Surprised by God at Tables: On The Eucharist as Mission (Pt. 1)

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Chris Kamalski

To Grow Nature Is To Encourage More Of It

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Chris Kamalski

Attending to God’s Presence While Watching My Garden

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Kris Beckert

God Finds Us In Nature: An Environment of Healing (Pt. 2)

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Kris Beckert

God Finds Us In Nature: A Place of Encounter (Pt. 1)

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Catherine McNiel

The Spiritual Practice of Summer

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Amy Davis Abdallah

How to Celebrate a Meaningful Name Change: ‘Consecrated Woman in Ministry’ to Reverend

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Origin Stories Matter: On Juneteenth

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Juliet Liu

When a Day Off Isn’t Enough: Sabbatical Rest Sustains Pastoral Health for the Long-Haul

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David Fitch

The Three Waves Metaphor: How Culture Shapes the Way We Work for Justice

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Seth Richardson

Searching for a Robust Spirituality in a Doomscrolling World (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 1)

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Sherin Swift

Emotions Signpost our Humanity in a Helpful Way

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Michelle Ferrigno Warren

Dr. King Shines a Light Forward for Justice Work Today

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Chris Rice

Pentecost DNA Forms Border-Crossing Christians

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Derek Vreeland

Five Ways Deconstruction Can Deepen Faith Without Devolving into Demolition

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Carolyn Custis James

Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 2)

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Angie Ward

The Least of These: Reflections on Learning to Practice a Faith Without Margins

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Carolyn Custis James

Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 1)

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MaryKate Morse

In Search of a Spiritual Practice for Losing Mothers

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Ken Van Vliet

Is Spiritual Formation Biblical?

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Missio Alliance

The Sights & Sounds of Awakenings 2023

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Lisa Rodriguez-Watson

Disruption Doesn’t Have The Last Word; New Life Does

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JR Woodward

Developing an Imitation-Based Framework of Healthy Leadership in Christ (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part III)

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JR Woodward

Fallen Leaders Pursue the Imitation of Powers for Their Own Agenda (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part II)

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JR Woodward

The Rush of a Crowd: A Root Issue in Domineering Leaders (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part I)

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Karina Kreminski

On Orchids, Temporality, and Reading James K. A. Smith’s ’How to Inhabit Time’

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Robert Chao Romero

Jeff Liou

Recent Developments in the CRT Culture Wars

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Ben Sternke

Spiritual Formation as the Transfer of Tacit Knowledge

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Catherine McNiel

The Radical Practice of Christian Hospitality

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Rachel Pierce

Returning Home: Finding Ourselves in the Story of the Prodigals

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Pieter Valk

Called, Not Conscripted (to Celibacy)