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Relaunching Decentralized Churches: A Mid-Term Analysis
Church Leadership Missional Discipleship Spiritual Formation
The Fall and Winter of 2020-21 is the mid-term season of the COVID-19 pandemic. The slate has been wiped...
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Relaunching Decentralized Churches: A Near-Term Analysis
Church and Culture Church Leadership Innovative Evangelism Missional Discipleship
Every church has an unprecedented opportunity in this season when we’ve all be scattered by virtue of...
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Redeeming Rural
Church and Culture Church Evangelism Small Church Leadership
A couple weeks ago the Laxton house couldn’t agree on a movie for family movie night, so my wife clicked...
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Not Just an Urban Issue: Racism and the Church in Small-Town America
Apologetics / Public Christianity Church and Culture Spiritual Formation Multicultural/Multiethnic
Over the past few weeks images of death, destruction, and anger have filled the screens of our phones...
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COVID-19 and Rural Work Around the World
Church and Culture Church Evangelism Missional Discipleship Research
When COVID-19 struck in the U.S., the church sprang into action. Alternative plans were hastily developed...
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COVID-19’s Burden on the Black and Brown Church
Church and Culture Church Economics Church Leadership Digital Mission
I have been home since March 13, 2020, a few days before the government called for “sheltering in place”...
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THE TIE THAT BINDS: JOHN FAWCETT'S DECISION TO STAY
Small Church Leadership Spiritual Formation Church Leadership
We’ve heard this story before: A small church calls an inexperienced young man to serve as their pastor....
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Pastoring a Small Church Is Not a Penalty, It’s a Specialty
Church Leadership Healthy Leader Small Church Leadership
For years I bucked against the idea that I am a small church pastor. Instead of seeing it as my calling,...
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Blizzards, Winters, and Ice-Ages
Church and Culture Church Evangelism Church Leadership Missional Discipleship
Blizzards, Winters, and Ice-Ages (Michael Osterholm is an infectious disease epidemiologist. Below is...
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'This is Going to Kill Small Town America'
Church and Culture Church Economics Healthy Leader Small Church Leadership
BRISTOL, N.H. — The coronavirus itself was slow to arrive in Bristol, a lakeside town of 3,300 people....
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Church and Culture Prison-Reentry Research
Reentry MythBusters are a series of fact sheets intended to clarify existing federal policies that affect...
Reading a Book on the Couch
Church Will Never be the Same
Church and Culture Church Leadership Digital Mission
Social distancing and shelter-in-place ordinances that have arisen from this COVID-19 pandemic are challenging...
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