by Kat Bair | Apr 9, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
My brother is an archivist. Specifically, he is a digital archivist, meaning that he spends his days editing and organizing the meta-data on digital files (things like the tags, what its titled, file formats, etc) to ensure that they are preserved long-term and can be...
by Kat Bair | Apr 2, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
In a meeting with church leaders last week, I offered a check-in question: what part of Holy Week was feeling most resonant with them? And more than one of them couldn’t name anything. They couldn’t name a single place where Holy Week mattered to them. They...
by Kat Bair | Mar 25, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
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...
by Kat Bair | Mar 19, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
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...
by Kat Bair | Mar 5, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
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...