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Hatchlings
Hatchlings is our blog dedicated to inspirational client stories and big ideas in ministry innovation. From astrophysics to farming to the church down the street, we believe that God-breathed, wild ideas can come from anywhere.
Essential Weirdness
In 1979, researcher and author Betsy Leondar-Wright was studying what enabled or inhibited cross class collaboration, particularly in the world of activism. The lived experience behind the question was that while she was well connected to professional middle class...
Bunker
Or, Surviving the Apocalypse, part 2. There is a man who has built a bunker in Minnesota, valued at over $100 million, with features such as anti-aircraft water cannons, a moat that has the capacity to instantly alight in flames, and lethal drones. The man who built...
The Hatching of Bears
My children picked out a book at the library in which a monkey, Bobo, and a dog, Pup-Pup, find a coconut and attempt to “hatch” it. Bobo reasons that since it is brown and fuzzy, it must be a bear egg, and after getting advice from some birds, try to hatch it on their...
Middle Manager
Earlier this week, I spoke to a close friend of mine, Heather, who serves in jurisdictional youth ministry. She’s leading a youth mission trip this week. Since it's a jurisdictional trip, the teenagers on the trip are from a diverse swath of congregations and...
Creative
A few months ago, I was invited to be on the Ministry Architects Podcast. I’ve gotten to chat with them before, and Renee and I have been on projects together so this wasn’t a huge surprise, but the topic was. They wanted to talk about this blog. In particular, the...
Surviving the Apocalypse
Ahead of the Trinity Test, the first test of a nuclear weapon, there was serious (and not unfounded) concern among scientists that the bomb would ignite the nitrogen in the atmosphere, which would set off a chain reaction that would ignite all of the air on earth....