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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

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

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

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

Sticking With It When the Church Is in Decline

Want to Dismantle Racism? Disrupt Your Discipleship

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

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

Formation for a Newly Disrupted Generation

Beauty in the Scratches

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

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

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

The Call and Response of Community Lament

Christians and the Forgotten Federal Indian Boarding School Connection

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

The Power of Truth-Telling and Lament

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

A Dialogue on Kingdom and Country with Angie Ward

Spiritual Direction: Why We Need It

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

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

How Loving the Old Will Strengthen Your Church

Humility: A Missing Ingredient

Reconstructing Faith After Deconstruction

Disarming Patriarchy

“So Much Trauma”: WandaVision as Metaphor

How to Read Formationally: Reading with the Spirit of God

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

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