Top Articles from 2025
At the end of each year, we look back at the Mosaic pieces we’ve published to see what posts really caught our readers’ attention. This year, five posts from Siburt Institute staff and six posts from our broader team got the most clicks, and so we wanted to share them with you again in this format. We hope this collection can provide some good reading material over your holidays. Blessings to you as you close out this year and look ahead to the new things that 2026 will bring for God’s kingdom and our work in it!
From the Siburt Team
Re-Centering Our Faith | Carson Reed
Our executive director writes about the principles that launched the Stone-Campbell movement and helps us think about those principles in our congregational life today.
Cultivating Culture in Your Leadership Team | Carson Reed
Carson uses the metaphor of gardening to help us think about how we develop healthy behaviors, values, and beliefs among our leadership groups and its members.
Who Are the People God Has Entrusted to My Care? | Shelby Coble
Our assistant director powerfully invites us to remember the core truth that, as leaders, we are fundamentally called more to steward people than to steward tasks.
Moving Toward a Place of Completeness | Jennifer Schroeder
Our Summit director discusses ways to move from excluding or merely representing people with different challenges and abilities to fully including them in our communities and our worship.
Becoming a Place of Beatitude | David Kneip
Our associate director offers a vision of the church as a place where Jesus’s beatitudes can come to reality as we bless and encourage one another.
From our Writing team
Addressing Charlie Kirk’s Death from the Pulpit | Jason Locke
One of the many challenges preachers face concerns how to handle tragic or sensitive current events, and a minister in California offers great wisdom on navigating these difficult waters.
Finding God in Unexpected Places: A Healthcare Chaplain’s Reflection | Chris Tomberlin
A chaplain in Central Texas reflects on 1 Kings 19 to help us consider the opportunities we have to see God’s image in the people we encounter in our ministries.
How Do You Have a Strong Marriage? | Heidi Morris
A professor in ACU’s Department of Marriage and Family Studies shares wisdom from Scripture and her own counseling work on ways to build and sustain a strong marriage.
The Twelve Minor Prophets and Today’s Church (5-Part Series) | Mark Hamilton
An Old Testament professor in ACU’s Graduate School of Theology exhorts us to listen closely to messages in the Minor Prophets that are relevant for today’s church and society.
The McDonalds Gospel | Casey Lankford
A minister in Houston draws connections between two of Jesus’s parables and a famous restaurant chain to help us think about the growth of God’s kingdom and our role in that growth.
The Most clicked Article this year
Hiding from God, Hidden in God | Phil McKinney
Of more than 100 Mosaic articles published in 2025, the most-clicked piece comes from a leader in Virginia, who invites us to step out of the ways that we hide from God (whether in secret or “in plain sight”) and to embrace the good news that we can live in the safety of being hidden in God.
