Pastor (St Lucia Uniting) & Author ("Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western Culture" & "The Vulnerable Pastor")
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12 Oct 2025
Christian women,
Help me research my next book ("What Women Know About Jesus" with NavPress), exploring Kingdom capacities of women which we often don't perceive as leadership capacities.
Take the survey & share with friends!
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7 Oct 2025
Christian women, please take part in this research for my upcoming book with NavPress ("What Women Know About Jesus"), exploring our Kingdom capacities that often aren't seen as leadership capacities.
And feel free to share the survey with others too.
forms.gle/QezwuBCc1diCR3Pz7
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9 Sep 2025
đź’ĄNew Episode! How Confession Unlocks Your Leadership - Mandy Smith - 178 - FrontStage BackStage with Jason Daye
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30 Jul 2024
What began as a quick post about the things I learn from art-making became a kind of manifesto for what artists know about leadership (with pictures!)
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8 Jul 2024
It makes no sense.
The more I give my life to Jesus, the more Mandy I become.
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10 Apr 2024
The messy things stirring in us which we often avoid or feel ashamed of are signposts of God's work in the world.
Will we pay attention?
@missioalliance
Resting in the Divine Current – Missio Alliance missioalliance.org/resting-i…
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29 Mar 2024
What on earth happened on the cross?
Join this wonderful conversation with @BrianZahnd
"Zahnd allows the cross to be absurd, puzzling, grotesque and beautiful. To embrace the richness of the cross will stretch us."
missioalliance.org/a-poetic-…
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29 Mar 2024
Preachers need a word!
Take 5 minutes before you proclaim it to breathe & take it in with this new mini podcast.
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26 Mar 2024
Ministry friends, on this huge week in our Church calendar, it's easy to feel pressure to be perfect.
But hidden in the story we're telling is a reminder that most of Jesus' closest friends were far from perfect.
And it didn't keep him from revealing life and light.
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6 Mar 2024
How do we, as preachers with our limited medium of spoken words, communicate to beings whose experience is beyond words?
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6 Mar 2024
I love words, but they're not my first language.
A behind-the-scenes look at how one preacher/writer finds the words for big things.
preachingtoday.com/holidays-… via @preachingtoday
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11 Jan 2024
Join the next writers' cohort!
8 Jan 2024
A snapshot from one of our Writers Cohort sessions with @MandySmithHopes
#WritersCohort #BehindTheScenes #StoryCrafting
Start your next writing journey with us!🖋️🌍
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11 Jan 2024
The point of Sabbath-keeping is not to live an idyllic life through management of our time and energy. The point is to reveal to us the limitations of human efforts. So, ironically, our attempts to perfectly manage our rest can undermine the whole point.
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20 Dec 2023
For my preaching friends, feeling the pressure to find a new spin on the Christmas story.
Preach Nothing New This Christmas . . . And It Will Be Novel preachingtoday.com/holidays-… via @preachingtoday
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3 Nov 2023
Something that's been brewing in me now has a name:
"Confessions of an Amateur Saint: The Christian Leader’s Journey from Self-sufficiency to Reliance on God."
And in October 2024 it will become something I can hold in my hands. And you can hold it too, if you like!
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2 Oct 2023
People will be tempted to let the journey finish with us:
“I came to church looking for God and found a pastor. Near enough.”
When they look to us, may we be ridiculous.
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1 Aug 2023
As we try to be good at Christian Leadership we can become pretty incompetent in the very thing we’re actually supposed to be good at—trusting that someone else is doing the work.
That kind of trying to be good at our job can make us pretty bad at it.
(quote from my next book!)
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18 Jul 2023
As pastors, it's natural that we feel anxious when people question faith. But I want to respond more from my compassion than my anxiety.
Here's my love letter to the leavers:
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