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Morgan Strehlow

The Words We Store In Our Hearts

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Matt Tebbe

10 Things I’m (Still) Learning as a Pastor

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Gaby Viesca

Everything Belongs: On Joining Missio Alliance and Other Questions of Discernment

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Ike Miller

At the Core of the Gospel: Participation in God’s Own Life

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David Swanson

Practicing Pilgrimage

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Ian McFadden

Grounding Our Gospel with Prayers for the Slain

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Miranda Zapor Cruz

Jesus Subverts Our Messianic Expectations

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Mayra Ramos

Reflections from the Boundary Zone

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Mandy Smith

A Manifesto to Heal My Writer Heart

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Jason Gaboury

The Problem of Loneliness: An Existential Challenge to the Goodness of the Human Story

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Andrew Arndt

Embracing Lent: The Art of Dying Well

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Emily Beth Hill

Economics Within the Reality of the New Creation (Captive to Capitalism, Part 4)

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Joshua E. Livingston

Community Starts in the Heart: ‘Ligamenting’ Our Lives with the Spirit in Space and Time

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Liz Cooledge Jenkins

I Don’t Want God to ‘Use’ Me

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Chris Kamalski

A Season of Disruption: Links from Our First Long-Form Series

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Gino Curcuruto

A Clear Vision for the Future: The Corrective Lens of Black Theology (Pt. 2)

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Gino Curcuruto

A Clear Vision for the Future: Re-Examining The Anabaptist Vision for Today (Pt. 1)

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Kyuboem Lee

Seminaries in the Crucible: What Will Emerge? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 2)

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Kyuboem Lee

Seminaries in the Crucible: What is Being Forged? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 1)

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Dennis R. Edwards

Wait for Each Other: Receiving One Another As Siblings in Christ (Pt. 2)

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Dennis R. Edwards

Wait for Each Other: Disrupting the Status Quo for the Sake of Solidarity (Pt. 1)

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Sahr Mbriwa

Truth-Telling: An Integrated Engagement With Our Differentiated Self (More Than Words, Pt. 2)

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Glenn Packiam

Five Reasons Fruitfulness Is Better Than Productivity

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Missio Alliance

Reflection and Anticipation: Missio Alliance Staff on 2022 and the Future

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Lisa Rodriguez-Watson

A Disruptive Incarnation: Reflecting on the Cost of Immanuel Drawing Near

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Sahr Mbriwa

Truth-Telling: A Just Movement Toward Human Flourishing (More Than Words, Pt. 1)

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Juliet Liu

Loving One’s Enemy as an Act of Liberation (Loving Our Enemies, Part 2)

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Juliet Liu

Is Loving One’s Enemies in a World of Trauma Another Form of Oppression? (Loving Our Enemies, Part 1)

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Carolyn Custis James

Redemptive Disruptions: How They Shape Our Stories and Reshape Our Theology

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Andrew Arndt

At the Watchtower: An Advent Meditation

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Kris Beckert

Disrupted Giving: An Uncomfortable Opportunity (Part 2: The Future of Giving)

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Kris Beckert

Disrupted Giving: An Uncomfortable Opportunity (Part 1: The Origins of Giving)

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Mandy Smith

We’re All Pioneers Now: Skills for the Unchartered Landscape of the 21st-Century Church

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Ian McFadden

Sticking With It When the Church Is in Decline

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Michelle T. Sanchez

Want to Dismantle Racism? Disrupt Your Discipleship

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Miranda Zapor Cruz

The Myth of the 93%: Fathers and Mothers Are Not a Competitive Hierarchy in the Home

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Chris Kamalski

A Season of Disruption: An Introduction to Our First Long-Form Series

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Rich Villodas

Formation for a Newly Disrupted Generation

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Karina Kreminski

Beauty in the Scratches

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Emily Beth Hill

What’s the Matter with Church Branding? (Captive to Capitalism, Part 3)

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Seth Richardson

The Gospel Is Inherently Social and That Should Change the Way We Lead

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Michelle Ferrigno Warren

The Pursuit of Justice Through Proximity, Advocacy, and Faith-Rooted Activism

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QuaWanna Bannarbie

The Call and Response of Community Lament

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Mariah Humphries

Christians and the Forgotten Federal Indian Boarding School Connection

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Emily Beth Hill

Understanding Branding Before You Market Your Church (Captive to Capitalism, Part 2)

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Lisa Rodriguez-Watson

The Power of Truth-Telling and Lament

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Mandy Smith

Derek Vreeland

Learning from the Margins: The Difference Between Human and Kingdom Power

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Angie Ward

Chris Kamalski

A Dialogue on Kingdom and Country with Angie Ward

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MaryKate Morse

Spiritual Direction: Why We Need It

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Andrew Arndt

Lessons from the Desert: How Frustration with the Church May Be an Invitation of the Spirit

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Emily Beth Hill

Examining How the Economy Disciples Us (Captive to Capitalism series, Part 1)

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Isabel Tom

How Loving the Old Will Strengthen Your Church

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Dennis R. Edwards

Humility: A Missing Ingredient

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Ben Sternke

Matt Tebbe

Reconstructing Faith After Deconstruction

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Carolyn Custis James

Disarming Patriarchy

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Rich Villodas

“So Much Trauma”: WandaVision as Metaphor

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Chris Kamalski

How to Read Formationally: Reading with the Spirit of God

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Missio Alliance

Breathe In, Breathe Out: A Liturgy for the 4th of July

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Derek Vreeland

How Our Ignorance Slows Racial Justice and What We Can Do About It

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Juliet Liu

Contemplative Spirituality Provides a Trauma-Informed Approach to Growing Healthier Churches