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Centering Discipleship – EK Strawser
In seminary, there was this saying that 10% of the people do 90% of the work. In reality, that might be closed to 5/95. Now, volunteering and doing the work necessary to keep a church […]
Genre: Christian Life
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Intergenerational Christian Formation (2nd Ed) – Holly Catterton Allen, Christine Lawton, and Cory L. Seibel
Small groups have always been the key to Christian discipleship. The Sunday morning service is a mostly collective celebration, but the emphasis in many mid-size to larger churches when it comes to discipleship is the […]
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Loving Disagreement – Kathy Khang and Matt Mikalatos
Have you…like…been online recently? Read the comments of a news article? Had an uncomfortable conversation with that one very opinionated coworker? Maybe you are that one very opinionated coworker? We live in polarizing times. A […]
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What If Jesus Was Serious About Heaven – Skye Jethani
Skye Jethani’s “What if Jesus was Serious?” books are sort of like blog posts being printed out and bound in book form. And I mean that as a compliment. In fact, I wonder if the […]
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Wake Up to Wonder – Karen Wright Marsh
Wake Up to Wonder is a collection of twenty-two devotional essays with practical suggestions—the author calls them “invitations”—to help readers become more in tune with the amazing things that surround them. It’s an eclectic work, […]
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The Ballot and the Bible – Kaitlyn Schiess
There’s an image that stands out to me when I think of how Scripture has been weaponized and misused in American politics: It’s then-President Donald Trump, stern-faced, holding a Bible in front of St. John’s […]
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Meaning in the Moment – Amy F. David Abdallah
Growing up in an evangelical church, the word “ritual” was almost a curse word. It was identified with old, dead religion where people did what they did not because they really felt it but because […]
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From Pandemic to Renewal – Chris Rice
COVID changed everything. It didn’t just expose the vulnerability of humanity despite all our technologies or the inadequacies of some health care and governmental systems, it disrupted us in our very souls. From the perspective […]
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What Makes You Bloom – Kevin Garcia
What Makes You Bloom is a shocking affront to my conservative evangelical upbringing….and that’s okay. Every time I think I’ve deconstructed to a place of progressivism, I meet someone like Kevin Garcia who reminds me […]
Academic
Evangelism: Learning from the Past – Michael Green
The late Michael Green was a British evangelist and theologian whose work is even more relevant today in the United Kingdom than it was during his years of ministry. Eerdmans has been publishing his writing […]