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** Embracing Unity in the Age of Cancel Culture ([link removed])
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Gaby Viesca tackles an incredibly complex issue with grace: “Cancelling, in its truest sense, is an erasure of the other, the result of centering our own perspectives and stories and privileging ours over those of other people."
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** Pastors, You Can Leave—So, Feel Free to Stay ([link removed])
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Many pastors are now feeling like the only way out of their current situation is either through disobedience or disqualification to their call; Richard Lee sets out to offer a fresh perspective and a healthy reminder that anyone can stay or leave–they have the freedom to make that decision without feeling trapped.
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** Finding a Home in the Brown Church: A One-Year Retrospective ([link removed])
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It's been a little over one year since Robert Chao Romero's release of The Brown Church (IVP). He reflects on lessons learned and stories he's heard in this fantastic retrospective. Dr. Romero notes that Brown Church–with a theology older than 500 years–"predates the Protestant-Catholic divide by nearly a decade. The Holy Spirit has been at work in issues of racial justice in Latin America long before our contemporary denominational divisions."
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** An Open Letter to my SBC Sisters and Brothers ([link removed])
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June saw the SBC annual meeting take place in Nashville, TN. Derek Vreeland, whose faith was nurtured in a Southern Baptist church, offered this letter to the broader community with a thoughtful invitation to remember, "[the] true enemies are not 'wokism,' Arminianism, Pentecostalism, egalitarianism, or transgenderism...Our true enemies are secularism, individualism, and nationalism."
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** S6E12: Top 5 Issues for Church Leaders Post-COVID ([link removed])
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Fitch & Moore unpack the 5 top issues for church leaders to navigate as we come out of COVID.
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** Nijay Gupta On What’s New in New Testaments Studies, Also BBQ ([link removed])
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Dr. Nijay Gupta has been teaching for more than a decade, is the author of the recent important study, Paul and the Language of Faith, and will be publishing a handful of books in 2020.
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