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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.
Fences
In 2006, Landscape Architecture student Peter Sommerlin conducted a simple study on playground architecture.1 He had two groups of pre-school students, the same age and from the same school, go to off-campus playgrounds with their teacher. One of the playgrounds was...
Two-Way Street
This is the second part of a series on the Compelling Preaching Cohorts of the Mountain Sky Conference, and in particular, what that project can teach us about environments that lead to true sustainability. I am conscious of this not sounding like a tally of my...
They Grow Up So Fast
September 2026 will mark a full 3 years of me working with the Mountain Sky Conference of the United Methodist Church on the Compelling Preaching Cohorts, a Lilly Endowment funded program through the Compelling Preaching Initiative. Before those 3 years even began, I...
Grabbing the Basket
I’ve been thinking about Pharoah’s daughter. In the beginning of the Exodus narrative, the Pharaoh orders all Hebrew baby boys be killed. The Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, refuse to do it, and lie to Pharaoh and his men to try to keep the babies safe. When...
Miraccident
"Miraccident": A portmanteau I just made up of miracle and accident. In his book, Hell: A Search for a Christian Ecology, academic Timothy Morton makes a radical argument for the beauty, strangeness, and unpredictability of everything we consider a given. His point is...
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