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1 Peter Miniseries
- Feb 21, 2023 1 Peter - Episode 5: Jesus, Cas's Story
- Feb 14, 2023 1 Peter - Episode 4: Suffering, Yamit's Story
- Feb 7, 2023 1 Peter - Episode 3: Hope, Melanie's Story
- Jan 31, 2023 1 Peter - Episode 2: Identity, Pam's Story
- Jan 24, 2023 1 Peter - Episode 1: The True Story
- Jan 24, 2023 1 Peter - Introduction: Discovering the True Story in Your Story
Advent
- Dec 24, 2024 Advent: Daring Assertions of Love in an Insecure Age
- Dec 18, 2024 Advent: Daring Assertions of Peace in a Violent Age
- Dec 5, 2024 Advent: Daring Assertions of Hope in A Secular Age
Book Review
Coffee
- Sep 17, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On Coffee & Travel
- Apr 2, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On Treeline's Boss Lady Blend
- Mar 26, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On Coffee & Innovation
- Mar 5, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On Coffee & The Future
- Jan 15, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On Finishing My Dissertation During A Pandemic: A Carrel, Coffee & the Glorious Sense of Completion
Discovering Missiology
- May 24, 2024 Exploring a Confessional Missiology: Summer Snippets, Sentences & Stories
- Dec 16, 2023 Advent: Peace
- Dec 9, 2023 Advent: Faith
- Dec 2, 2023 Advent: Hope Awakens
- Nov 10, 2023 Discovering Missiology: Confluence
- Nov 3, 2023 Discovering Missiology: Disruptions and Fissures
- Oct 24, 2023 Discovering Missiology: God’s Mission Has A Church
- Oct 11, 2023 Discovering Missiology: The Church Has A Mission
- Sep 28, 2023 Discovering Missiology: Puzzle & Surprise
- Sep 18, 2023 Discovering Missiology: What is it?
Favorite Essential Person
- Feb 12, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On My Favorite Essential Persons
Flapjack Friday
- Jun 18, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On Juneteenth, A Guest Post by Tom Fritz (first published in 2019)
- May 21, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On Fount Coffee + Kitchen, An Essential Place
- Apr 23, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On Human Life
- Apr 16, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On Waffles
- Apr 9, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On Faces
Gospel Convos Reimagined
- Mar 25, 2024 Humility: On Being Bent
- Feb 23, 2024 Humility: UnSelfing
- Jan 9, 2024 Placed for a Purpose Podcast: Gospel Conversations Reimagined
- Dec 16, 2023 Advent: Peace
- Dec 9, 2023 Advent: Faith
- Oct 11, 2023 Discovering Missiology: The Church Has A Mission
- Sep 17, 2022 Cultivating Cultural Awareness: Staying Present in a Willy Nilly World, Part One
- Apr 14, 2022 Cultivating Rhythms of Remembering in a Hyper-Forgetful World: Good Friday
- Apr 13, 2022 Cultivating Rhythms of Remembering in a Hyper-Forgetful Age: Roughly 24 Feet Before The Cross
- Mar 15, 2022 Faithful Witness in the Face of Calamity
- Dec 21, 2021 Winter Solstice: The Longest Night
- Nov 23, 2021 Feed the Want By All Means Necessary: Cultural Fables in A Secular Age, Part 3 of 4
- Nov 8, 2021 The Universe Has Your Back: Cultural Fables in a Secular Age, Part 2 of 4
- Nov 1, 2021 God Is A Woman: Cultural Fables, Part 1 of 4
- Oct 1, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: From Presentation to Conversation, 5 Behavior Changes
- Aug 30, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Three Core Longings
- May 26, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Listening for the Music of the Gospel From the Beginning
- May 6, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Musings on Secularization and the Unraveling of Authority, Part 2
- Apr 28, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Musings on Secularization and the Unraveling of Authority
- Apr 21, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Four Prominent Features of Faithful Recontextualization, Part One
- Apr 14, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Understanding Revivalist Roots, Part 4, A Summary
- Apr 4, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Rhythms of Remembering, How the True Story of the Whole World Enhances Our Understanding of Easter
- Mar 29, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Understanding Revivalist Roots, A Thoughtful Deconstruction, Part Three
- Mar 24, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Understanding Revivalist Roots, A Thoughtful Deconstruction, Part Two
- Mar 17, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Evangelical Roots, A Thoughtful Deconstruction, Part One
- Mar 8, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: A Study In Contrasts
- Mar 1, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Five Lessons About God from Psalm 86
- Feb 15, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: The True Story of the Whole World, Restoration/Re-creation
- Feb 1, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: The True Story of the Whole World, The Fall
- Jan 18, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: The True Story of the Whole World & Why Truth Matters
- Jan 11, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: Shifts & Disruptions
- Jan 4, 2021 Gospel Conversations Reimagined: A Series of Stories
Mingling of Cultures
- Jun 18, 2021 Flapjack Friday: On Juneteenth, A Guest Post by Tom Fritz (first published in 2019)
- Feb 19, 2019 Mingling of Cultures: Bringing Justice and Mercy to Our City
- Jan 19, 2019 Mingling of Cultures Part IV: Better Together
- Nov 28, 2018 Lessons in Lament: Mingling of Cultures Part III
- Nov 12, 2018 A Mingling of Cultures
Missiology
- Dec 16, 2023 Advent: Peace
- Dec 9, 2023 Advent: Faith
- Oct 11, 2023 Discovering Missiology: The Church Has A Mission
PhD Research
- Oct 11, 2023 Discovering Missiology: The Church Has A Mission
- Nov 23, 2021 Feed the Want By All Means Necessary: Cultural Fables in A Secular Age, Part 3 of 4
- Nov 10, 2021 Winsome Conviction Podcast: Sharing the Gospel, Part 2
- Oct 27, 2021 Wisdom Conviction Podcast: Sharing the Good News, Part 1
- Jun 13, 2018 Cru's Research Reveals Insight for Gospel Conversations
Selah Summer
- Jul 7, 2021 Selah Summer: Pulling from the Roots, Lessons from Descent
- Jun 23, 2021 Selah Summer: Christ Plays in Ten-Thousand Places, Come and See
- Jun 4, 2021 Selah Summer: Jesus is the Clue
- May 16, 2021 Selah Summer: What are you looking for?
- May 8, 2021 Selah: A Season for Hallelujahs & Stillness
The Borderlands
- Mar 10, 2024 Humility: A Juxtaposition from the Borderlands
True Story Project
- Feb 23, 2024 Humility: UnSelfing
- Oct 6, 2022 I Am From: An Exercise in Finding My Roots
- Dec 21, 2021 Winter Solstice: The Longest Night
- Nov 10, 2021 Winsome Conviction Podcast: Sharing the Gospel, Part 2
- Oct 27, 2021 Wisdom Conviction Podcast: Sharing the Good News, Part 1
- Oct 20, 2021 The True Story of the Whole World: God, Pink Flamingos, and Ordinary People Like Us