Blog
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.
Trash and Treasure
In Brooklyn, San Francisco, and Berkeley, you can get your name on the list for a sixteen-seat, pop-up, high-end dinner… served in a dumpster.
Three Games for an Honest Conversation
Here are three games and activities that can change the conversation for you and your team:
Video Game Success Stories & Us
In the video game world, the path to success is much more chaotic than we might imagine. Here’s what we us in ministry innovation can learn from it.
Hitting the Sweet Spot
What could the idea of doughnut economics teach us about how to lead well? What would living in the “sweet spot” look like for us as we try to innovate, push, and grow our communities while respecting the finitude of ourselves, our communities, and the demands on our resources?
The Big Stuff is the Small Stuff
What can we learn about innovation from Einstein and Hubble and quantum mechanics? Focus on the small stuff, and don’t let the scale of the task you face overwhelm you. Just like to our particle physicist friends, this may seem unintuitive – shouldn’t big projects require specialist training, extra hard work, and fancy planning software? But we can learn what they learned, that the answers we were looking for were already baked into our everyday lives. The big stuff is the small stuff
The Penguin
Carmelle Beaugelin would describe a failed ministry idea as “a penguin,” – something that should fly, but doesn’t. So what makes an idea flightless?