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Juneteenth: A Day for Joy and Truth-Telling

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

Three Steps to Developing a Multicultural Liturgy in Your Church

My Southern Baptist Stories: A Plea to the Church

Burning Away Barriers and Blowing Down Walls

Holding Space for Healing

The Continued Problem with Thoughts and Prayers

Racial Transformation Begins in Your Home

Erasing Mary, The Mother of God

Yes, Your Church Can Start a Special Needs Ministry

Immigrants—the Best Hope for Christian Renewal in America

Is the Church Creating a Fragmented Spirituality in Emerging Adults?

Taw & Busk: Poetry For Holy Week

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

Centering Voices of Color is More Complicated Than We Realized

The Weight of Ministry Leadership

Christian Nationalism: What Dismantles It

Christian Nationalism: What Defines It

When the Psalm Isn’t For Me

What Does Loving Your Enemies Look Like in 2022?

Two Paths Toward Discovering Gravity and God’s Mystery

Eleven Ways to Be a Great Partner to BIPOC Communities

Six Ways to Respond to People Leaving Church

The Unremarkable Growth of Peace in God’s Kingdom

Five Ways Asian Americans Can Flourish in Your Church

Top 10 Articles of 2021

Prayer of Examen for a Reluctant Leader

The Distance Between Us—and the Choice to Draw Near

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

The Special Needs of Special Needs Ministries

Breathing in a New Rule of Life

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

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

Anchoring Prayer for a Time Such as This

Rejecting the Lie that Life Has to Be This Way

Is Our Gospel of Love Truly About Love?

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

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

Eight Better Ways to Talk about Religion

When BIPOC Leaders Speak Out

How Social Identity Alone Damages the Church

A Call for Pastor-Medics to Help Heal the Church

How Complete Is Your Gospel?

The Dangers of Misunderstanding Privilege

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

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

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

Why Worship Together? Three Paradigms of Congregational Worship

Seventeen Resources on Women and Men in Mutual Leadership

Worship that Forms and Transforms

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

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

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

Understanding the Whole Good News of the Gospel

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

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

The Gift of Presence in an Age of Distractions

Mending the Church by Expanding the Story of Jesus

An Open Letter to my SBC Sisters and Brothers
