Friction

Friction

One of the things that our modern world has most successfully removed in our day to day life is friction. We can order necessities with a tap, have food brought to our home, the shows offered to us are only the ones that the algorithm knows we will like, and any...
Picture Perfect

Picture Perfect

Now we see through a glass darkly, then we shall see face to face. 1 Corinthians 13:12 A few weeks ago, on our monthly family trip to Costco, my son tried to reach out and grab a lizard on one of the ultra-high definition TVs. I was as surprised as he was when his...
Swing, Batter, Swing

Swing, Batter, Swing

I was talking to a youth ministry friend of mine last week, and he told me about an SOS text he got from a volunteer. The volunteer was leading the 11th and 12th grade boys small group at the large, mainline church where my friend works.  My friend popped into...
Blowing on Sails

Blowing on Sails

I, like everyone, have spent much of the last couple of weeks talking about Alysa Liu. Alysa Liu is an American figure skater who recently won gold at the Winter Olympics in Milan. But it wasn’t her win that made her the only thing we all could talk about, it was how...
Solvitur Ambulando

Solvitur Ambulando

Today (at writing, maybe not at reading) is Ash Wednesday. It is the beginning of the season of the liturgical year that is most antagonistic towards the type of energetic, innovative, optimistic, forward-driving work that we do best at Ministry Incubators. Our work...