Working the System

Working the System

Ministry Incubators is part of the larger Ministry Architects umbrella. While we both have some unique DNA (we like to think of Incubators as the quirky little sister of eldest daughter Ministry Architects), there are enough shared values and understanding that we can...
A Good Little Monkey

A Good Little Monkey

Margaret and HA Rey were German Jews born near the end of the 19th century. After meeting as teenagers, they both moved to Brazil in the late 1920’s to escape the rise of Nazism. They got married and moved to Paris in 1935, thinking they were safe from the Nazi...
Action Park

Action Park

In the 1980’s, there was an amusement park in New Jersey called Action Park. Designed as a weekend escape for New Yorkers by an eccentric finance millionaire, the park featured water rides, go-karts, massive slides… and almost no safety regulations. Action Park became...
No Zero Progress Days

No Zero Progress Days

My husband is in tech, and also works from home, which gives me a fascinating peek into a completely different way of engaging with work, with colleagues, and with the projects that their organizations take on. In his corner of vocational life, there is a...
Creation Story

Creation Story

A Korean pastor recently told me the story of the Ungnyeo, the mythical mother of the Korean nation. The myth goes that a tiger and bear both prayed to the heavenly God to be human. The God told them to go into a cave for 100 days, eating only garlic and mugwort, and...