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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.
Sieve
Last week, I sat in a meeting with a group of leaders at Brite Divinity School. and we discussed strategy for a new initiative focused, in part, on helping students clarify what they hoped to get from seminary, and prepare them for what they would do after. Dr. Callid...
All Kinds
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...
Still Holy
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...
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
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
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...