Swiftie Spirituality

Swiftie Spirituality

Hello, my name is Kat Bair, I am 31 years old and I am a Swiftie – aka a fan of American musical icon, Taylor Swift. Being raised in Nashville in the 2000s meant that I, along with millions of other tween girls, spent my adolescence belting Teardrops on My...
The Justice Imagination Lab

The Justice Imagination Lab

Sometimes the most significant barrier between where we are and where we’re being called to go is simply a lack of imagination. We get easily sucked into patterns of what is and what always has been, so when we see an invitation to new work we are called into, we...
Great is Good, Repeatable

Great is Good, Repeatable

In high school, I was in color guard – not the military kind, the flag twirling kind. If you’re not from an area where this kind of thing is big, color guards perform as part of marching bands and dance and spin and throw flags, rifles, sabres, and sometimes...
Compelling Preaching

Compelling Preaching

Being a church leader is an incredibly multifaceted job. The role consists of all of the responsibilities of running a small nonprofit organization, a fair amount of crisis response, premarital counseling, social work, volunteer recruitment and management,...
The Hope of Seatbelts

The Hope of Seatbelts

In 2009, the Institute for Highway Safety staged a now-viral video where they crashed a 1959 Chevy Bel-Air into a 2009 Chevy Malibu. The point of the video, once it can be heard over the anguish of classic car enthusiasts, is that the very same accident that would...