A few summers ago, while heading home to Chicago from a day at the lakeshore, our family was driving along a quiet road in Indiana ... Read More| Missio Alliance
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Contending for our faith is not about expressing accurate doctrine as much as it is about living a Christ-like life. Right around the time of ... Read More The post There’s A Different Way To Fight appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
Thursday September 18th 4pm EST Power in the church is meant to be shared, not hoarded. In this conversation, author Eun.K. Strawser, Jonathan Brooks (Pastah ... Read More The post Webinar: Sharing Power: The Antidote to Domineering Leadership appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
Catalysts for Faith Crisis, Pt. 1 “Another Christian leader unmasked as an abuser!” the news headlines shouted earlier this week. There’s no need to go ... Read More The post Wolves in Shepherd’s Clothing appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
*Editorial Note: Austin’s first article in this series is entitled “Who Are Our Marginalized Neighbors Today?” and can be read here. ~CK In my city ... Read More The post Love Your Neighborhood appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
"The work of racial healing is not optional for followers of the Way of Jesus. It is a way of being–a deeply raw, courageous, and redemptive process–that is essential to our formation into the likeness of Christ."| Missio Alliance
“And who is my neighbor?” This has been the qualifying question for religiously minded people for 2,000 years now. The answer Jesus gives is as ... Read More The post Who Are Our Marginalized Neighbors Today? appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
*Editorial Note: Miranda Zapor Cruz has written a prophetic, timely, and deeply creative piece for us this week on three concepts I have never seen ... Read More The post A (Needed) Conversation on Baptism, Borders, and Belonging appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
I’m told I kicked off my tiny shoe when I was baptized. My parents made promises on my behalf and I received a Bible inscribed ... Read More The post Baptism Without Borders appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
Normal life is the domain of God’s Presence, a long journey into the Great Tradition. After the grand liturgical sweep that begins with Advent and ... Read More The post My So-Called Ordinary Life appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
"The natural world is a restorative place for our souls. In nature, God may not change my circumstances, but may bring about my healing."| Missio Alliance
"Something about the natural world connects with us deep inside our bones and within our souls, drawing us to something greater. Nature is where people often experience God."| Missio Alliance
"Summer months teem with life. Considering that God, the Creator, invented summer, there must be theological truth here, and a spiritual invitation."| Missio Alliance
"In a world desperate for healing leaders, perhaps the most radical thing we can do is tend the wounded places within ourselves first."| Missio Alliance
"The Church can no longer afford to ignore mental health struggles, *and* the Church is beautifully poised to offer a solution to our social fragmentation: belonging to a beloved community."| Missio Alliance
"Kintsugi art is a perfect picture of the long, slow, arduous yet beautiful mending work of forgiveness and reconciliation after trauma."| Missio Alliance
"In the church, we have embraced a knowledge-based form of learning, largely opposite of the action-reflection way that Jesus showed us. Why is this so?"| Missio Alliance
Missio Alliance & IVP Book Series In partnership with InterVarsity Press, we are pleased to offer a line of books authored by a diverse range of ... Read More| Missio Alliance
"People can change. Churches and organizations can change. They may not change easily, but the hope of the gospel is that transformation is possible."| Missio Alliance
"With prophetic urgency, these Palestinian Christian leaders pleaded with us to turn from our weaponized theologies, and from the ways we abuse our access to American political power to deny the humanity of Palestinians. We listened to their laments and pleas for action as they rebuked the church in the West for it’s failure to respond to what so much of the world, including the United Nations itself, calls a genocide."| Missio Alliance