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Mill City Church: Asking God Questions

What is God already doing in Northeast Minnesota?

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Learning from the Lab: Carrying Successes Forward

Celebrating accomplishments from this past year

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Learning from the Lab: Adapting Congregations’ Prayer Practices

What's working for online and at-home prayer

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Cultural Intelligence as a Spiritual Discipline of Relinquishment

Why acquiring skills of cultural intelligence is so important to the Christian life.

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Finding Hope in a Divided, Socially Distant Nation

Experiences and insights from ministry in 2020

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Creatively Connecting with All Ages During the Pandemic

Even with pandemic fatigue, churches can continue to connect while separate

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Looking Towards Advent, from National Adoption Awareness Month

The regular life of the Church offers ways to honor adoption

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Heather Jallad: Fresh Expressions, Dinner Church, and Combatting Food Insecurity

How and why this ministry entrepreneur's dinner church took off.

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How To Take Criticism

It's hard to hear criticism when you've poured your heart into something. Here are some ways to receive feedback graciously.

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What I’m Reading Now: Online Worship & Hospitality

How can we welcome online visitors

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Virtually Run the Race Together

A virtual marathon can bring a church together while apart

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I Am: Why My Congregation Celebrated National Coming Out Day

Speaking truth changed the life of this pastor

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Addressing Isolation in Ministry (Learning from the Lab)

How leaders are adapting to reach out

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Does a Practically Perfect Pandemic Partnership Exist?

A guide to working together in ministry

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What Virtual Worship Is Feeding Your Spirit? (Learning from the Lab)

Nourish your soul with these recommendations

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