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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.
Electroreception
Some catfish can hunt by detecting the electrical current of their prey’s heartbeat, it’s a sense called electroreception. Scientists are just beginning to understand how electroreception works, and why the seemingly scattershot collection of animals who have it...
Interns
When I was 21, I got the chance to intern at the headquarters of a large, prestigious human rights organization in Washington, D.C. There was a class of 24 of us, and my fellow interns were some of the brightest people my own age I had ever met. They went to schools...
What the Data Tells Us
Last week, Pew Research released its annual Religious Landscape Study, which, for decades, has tracked trends on everything from church attendance to reports of personal spiritual practices across the United States. My guess is that you are familiar with their work,...
Kenda & Kat on the Podcast!
This week, we at Ministry Incubators continued our conversation with Ministry Architects. On a follow-up episode after Kerwin introduced our friends at Ministry Architects to what makes a good idea (and what to do with one), Ministry Incubators co-founder Kenda Dean,...
Smelling God
Our senses of smell are much better than we think they are. Humans can smell an odor-producing compound that exists at a level of 2 parts per billion of the air around them. Humans can actually smell at lower densities than dogs can.1 We just don’t know it. I was...
Proximity Matters
I was leading an on-site recently, where we were talking about nurturing the lives of children in congregations, when a participant reflected that “We often make these broad statements about wanting to bring up young people and then never get to know them; proximity...