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Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Part 1

An Epiphany to Lament

Missio Alliance’s Favorite Reads of 2020

Missio Alliance’s Top Ten Articles of 2020

Challenging Trumpism: Lessons from Beth Moore on Leadership

Sabbath Politics for a Weary World

An Advent Reflection: Our Scapegoats Revealed

An Advent Invitation: Beyond Sentimental Praise

An Essential Ingredient for Ministry Leaders

An Advent Invitation: Come, Desire of Nations, Come

The 2020 Ezer Surge

Allowing God to Love us Through Centering Prayer

An Advent Invitation: Leaning into Words of Prophecy

Advent for “the Rest of Us”: Avoiding Exclusion, Welcoming Wonder

An Advent Invitation: Recalling God’s Promises with Every Breath

Loving Across the Divides

Overcoming the Fear of Loving our Enemies

Whiteness, Social Identity, and American Evangelicalism: An Analysis of the 2020 Presidential Election

Crucial Conversations: Kingdom Ethics for our Post-Election Reality, Part Two

Crucial Conversations: Kingdom Ethics for our Post-Election Reality, Part One

Online Missionaries in a Digital World

A Nation Waits: A Presidency Ends, but the Church’s Work Continues

A Nation Waits: The Great Rebuke for the Church to Ponder

A Nation Waits: An Ancient Creed that Is Right for This Moment

A Nation Waits: The Source of Our Hope

A Nation Waits: It’s Time to Name the Context

A Nation Waits: Seeking a Center of Peace

A Nation Waits: What Faithfulness Looks Like

Nothing Wasted: Evil and the Providence of God

Recovering Authority in a Contested Age

A Prayer and Liturgy for Those who Mourn

Shaping Holy People, not Holy Persons

The Church’s Social Dilemma

Four Principles to Foster Anti-Racism in Children at Every Stage

The Doctrine of Discovery and the Church’s Complicity

The Colonization of Christian Leadership

Conformation to the Image of Jesus

Five Steps to Marathon Together in Peacemaking and Justice Seeking

Pandemics Aren’t So Unprecedented: What We Can Learn from Early Christians

The Value of a Bonhoeffer Biography At a Time Like This

Power and Moral Will: A Call to Christlikeness

In Search of White Partners: What BIPOC Need

What’s In a Name? From “Evangelicals” to “Christians” for the CSA

The Need for Deeply Formed Pastors

Repenting of our Scapegoating

The Power and Peace of the Trinity for Our Troubled Times

The Cost of Unity

Praising God Amid Agonizing Realities

The Post-COVID Church: Four Crucial Lessons from the ‘None-Zone’

What Our Current Wilderness Reveals About the Strongholds in Our Lives

Why Don’t We Pray?

The Formational Power of Reading: A Requirement for all Leaders

Why Ecclesiology Matters in the Age of COVID-19

A Moment or a Movement?

Stopping the Spread of Anxiety as a Contagion

The Pure and Undefiled Job Description of the Christian

“My Body Which Is Given for You”: How the Wall of Moms Embodies Sacrificial Living

Three Relationships Every Church Needs…Especially Now

Free-ish: the Here-but-Not-Yet Reality of Racial Justice
