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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.
Surviving the Apocalypse
Ahead of the Trinity Test, the first test of a nuclear weapon, there was serious (and not unfounded) concern among scientists that the bomb would ignite the nitrogen in the atmosphere, which would set off a chain reaction that would ignite all of the air on earth....
Love Makes Us
A lot of words have been said about parent’s love for their children, and the way that love changes them. All of that is true. What I’ve been thinking about this past week is about whether it is our love for them that changes us, or their love for us. When my...
Not Anymores: Part 3
Always Weres and Always Will Bes These past two weeks, we have been talking about Not Anymores, people who were raised in or around the church, who were likely baptized, confirmed, who may have a lot of positive memories of church, but who just… don’t go anymore. The...
Not Anymores: Part 2
The Empty Restaurant When people talk about church growth, they tend to imagine their role is to spread the Gospel to people who haven’t heard it yet. Their goal is to practice Evangelism in the most literal of senses, spreading the Good News as news. Where I live, we...
Not Anymores
When I was in my late 20’s, a bunch of my college friends were getting married, and a strange thing kept happening at the weddings. I was working as a youth pastor at the time. For a lot of my friends, who hand flown from our alma mater in Ohio landed in impossibly...
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...