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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.
Snakes Under the Floorboards
I live in Tennessee, one of the few places where, if you know where to look, you can still find churches that have snakes under the floorboards. I got an email from a Dutch reader a few weeks ago (hi Kelvin), so if this needs explaining: beginning in the early 20th...
3%
A local mental health professional was on an entrepreneurship podcast this past week, and he started talking about the impact of the mental health of leaders on their organizations. He said, “The anxiety you haven’t named in private shows up as decisions in public....
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...