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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Juneteenth: A Day for Joy and Truth-Telling

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Mandy Smith

Are We Underdogs or Overlords? How Western Christians Can Lose Power Gracefully

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Michelle Reyes

Three Steps to Developing a Multicultural Liturgy in Your Church

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MaryKate Morse

My Southern Baptist Stories: A Plea to the Church

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Miranda Zapor Cruz

Burning Away Barriers and Blowing Down Walls

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Justin Heap

Sean Palmer

Holding Space for Healing

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Rich Villodas

The Continued Problem with Thoughts and Prayers

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Helen Lee

Michelle Reyes

Racial Transformation Begins in Your Home

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Gaby Viesca

Erasing Mary, The Mother of God

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Samantha Rauh

Yes, Your Church Can Start a Special Needs Ministry

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Lisa Rodriguez-Watson

Immigrants—the Best Hope for Christian Renewal in America

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Steve Noble

Is the Church Creating a Fragmented Spirituality in Emerging Adults?

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Justin Heap

Taw & Busk: Poetry For Holy Week

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Ian McFadden

Fascism, Pandemic, and Apathy: How Christians Led in Past Crises

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Michelle Reyes

Centering Voices of Color is More Complicated Than We Realized

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Dan White

The Weight of Ministry Leadership

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David Swanson

Christian Nationalism: What Dismantles It

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David Swanson

Christian Nationalism: What Defines It

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Miranda Zapor Cruz

When the Psalm Isn’t For Me

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Catherine McNiel

What Does Loving Your Enemies Look Like in 2022?

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Dennae Pierre

Two Paths Toward Discovering Gravity and God’s Mystery

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Donnell Wyche

Eleven Ways to Be a Great Partner to BIPOC Communities

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Ian McFadden

Six Ways to Respond to People Leaving Church

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Josh Funk

The Unremarkable Growth of Peace in God’s Kingdom

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Michelle Reyes

Five Ways Asian Americans Can Flourish in Your Church

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Chris Morton

Top 10 Articles of 2021

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MaryKate Morse

Prayer of Examen for a Reluctant Leader

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Dennae Pierre

The Distance Between Us—and the Choice to Draw Near

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Kyuboem Lee

What Will Keep Us from Building a Church in the Ruins?

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Samantha Rauh

The Special Needs of Special Needs Ministries

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Sherin Swift

Breathing in a New Rule of Life

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April Fiet

Rob Dixon

Making the Shift: Moving to Full Inclusion of Women in Church Leadership (Part Two)

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Rob Dixon

April Fiet

Making the Shift: A Roadmap to Full Inclusion of Women in Church Leadership (Part One)

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Dennae Pierre

Anchoring Prayer for a Time Such as This

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Donnell Wyche

Rejecting the Lie that Life Has to Be This Way

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Gaby Viesca

Is Our Gospel of Love Truly About Love?

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Richard Lee

How Hurricane Ida Blew Apart One Church’s Launch Plans for the Better

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Christina Stanton

Leaning on the Great Healer in Times of Anniversary-Effect Trauma

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Preston Ulmer

Eight Better Ways to Talk about Religion

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Robert Chao Romero

Erica Shepler Romero

When BIPOC Leaders Speak Out

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Robert Chao Romero

Erica Shepler Romero

How Social Identity Alone Damages the Church

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Tara Beth Leach

A Call for Pastor-Medics to Help Heal the Church

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Sean Palmer

How Complete Is Your Gospel?

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Dominique Gilliard

The Dangers of Misunderstanding Privilege

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David Fitch

The Different Kind of Leaders Needed for the Future of the Church

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Seth Richardson

The Church Needs an Exorcism—And What We Can Do About It

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Jennie McLaurin

From Walking Wounded to Caring Community: Learning to Heal like a Body

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Glenn Packiam

Why Worship Together? Three Paradigms of Congregational Worship

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Chris Morton

Seventeen Resources on Women and Men in Mutual Leadership

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Rory Noland

Worship that Forms and Transforms

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Michelle Reyes

Pastors May Be Close to Burn Out. Here’s How to Care for Them.

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David Swanson

From Interrogated to Reimagined: the Evolution of the Multiethnic Church (Part 2)

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David Swanson

From Invisible to Interrogated: the Evolution of the Multiethnic Church (Part 1)

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Mandy Smith

Understanding the Whole Good News of the Gospel

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Josh Funk

Biblical Interpretation and Leaning into the Mystery of God, Part 2

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Josh Funk

Biblical Interpretation and Leaning into the Mystery of God, Part 1

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Josiah Hoagland

The Gift of Presence in an Age of Distractions

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Amber Mann Riggs

Mending the Church by Expanding the Story of Jesus

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Derek Vreeland

An Open Letter to my SBC Sisters and Brothers

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Robert Chao Romero

Finding a Home in the Brown Church: A One-Year Retrospective