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Attending to God’s Presence While Watching My Garden
God Finds Us In Nature: An Environment of Healing (Pt. 2)
God Finds Us In Nature: A Place of Encounter (Pt. 1)
The Spiritual Practice of Summer
How to Celebrate a Meaningful Name Change: ‘Consecrated Woman in Ministry’ to Reverend
Origin Stories Matter: On Juneteenth
When a Day Off Isn’t Enough: Sabbatical Rest Sustains Pastoral Health for the Long-Haul
The Three Waves Metaphor: How Culture Shapes the Way We Work for Justice
Searching for a Robust Spirituality in a Doomscrolling World (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 1)
Emotions Signpost our Humanity in a Helpful Way
Dr. King Shines a Light Forward for Justice Work Today
Pentecost DNA Forms Border-Crossing Christians
Five Ways Deconstruction Can Deepen Faith Without Devolving into Demolition
Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 2)
The Least of These: Reflections on Learning to Practice a Faith Without Margins
Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 1)
In Search of a Spiritual Practice for Losing Mothers
Is Spiritual Formation Biblical?
The Sights & Sounds of Awakenings 2023
Disruption Doesn’t Have The Last Word; New Life Does
Developing an Imitation-Based Framework of Healthy Leadership in Christ (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part III)
Fallen Leaders Pursue the Imitation of Powers for Their Own Agenda (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part II)
The Rush of a Crowd: A Root Issue in Domineering Leaders (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part I)
On Orchids, Temporality, and Reading James K. A. Smith’s ’How to Inhabit Time’
Recent Developments in the CRT Culture Wars
Spiritual Formation as the Transfer of Tacit Knowledge
The Radical Practice of Christian Hospitality
Returning Home: Finding Ourselves in the Story of the Prodigals
Called, Not Conscripted (to Celibacy)
The Words We Store In Our Hearts
10 Things I’m (Still) Learning as a Pastor
Everything Belongs: On Joining Missio Alliance and Other Questions of Discernment
At the Core of the Gospel: Participation in God’s Own Life
Practicing Pilgrimage
Grounding Our Gospel with Prayers for the Slain
Jesus Subverts Our Messianic Expectations
Reflections from the Boundary Zone
A Manifesto to Heal My Writer Heart
The Problem of Loneliness: An Existential Challenge to the Goodness of the Human Story
Embracing Lent: The Art of Dying Well
Economics Within the Reality of the New Creation (Captive to Capitalism, Part 4)
Community Starts in the Heart: ‘Ligamenting’ Our Lives with the Spirit in Space and Time
I Don’t Want God to ‘Use’ Me
A Season of Disruption: Links from Our First Long-Form Series
A Clear Vision for the Future: The Corrective Lens of Black Theology (Pt. 2)
A Clear Vision for the Future: Re-Examining The Anabaptist Vision for Today (Pt. 1)
Seminaries in the Crucible: What Will Emerge? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 2)
Seminaries in the Crucible: What is Being Forged? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 1)
Wait for Each Other: Receiving One Another As Siblings in Christ (Pt. 2)
Wait for Each Other: Disrupting the Status Quo for the Sake of Solidarity (Pt. 1)
Truth-Telling: An Integrated Engagement With Our Differentiated Self (More Than Words, Pt. 2)
Five Reasons Fruitfulness Is Better Than Productivity
Reflection and Anticipation: Missio Alliance Staff on 2022 and the Future
A Disruptive Incarnation: Reflecting on the Cost of Immanuel Drawing Near
Truth-Telling: A Just Movement Toward Human Flourishing (More Than Words, Pt. 1)
Loving One’s Enemy as an Act of Liberation (Loving Our Enemies, Part 2)
Is Loving One’s Enemies in a World of Trauma Another Form of Oppression? (Loving Our Enemies, Part 1)
Redemptive Disruptions: How They Shape Our Stories and Reshape Our Theology
At the Watchtower: An Advent Meditation
