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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.
A Good Little Monkey
Margaret and HA Rey were German Jews born near the end of the 19th century. After meeting as teenagers, they both moved to Brazil in the late 1920’s to escape the rise of Nazism. They got married and moved to Paris in 1935, thinking they were safe from the Nazi...
Action Park
In the 1980’s, there was an amusement park in New Jersey called Action Park. Designed as a weekend escape for New Yorkers by an eccentric finance millionaire, the park featured water rides, go-karts, massive slides… and almost no safety regulations. Action Park became...
No Zero Progress Days
My husband is in tech, and also works from home, which gives me a fascinating peek into a completely different way of engaging with work, with colleagues, and with the projects that their organizations take on. In his corner of vocational life, there is a...
Creation Story
A Korean pastor recently told me the story of the Ungnyeo, the mythical mother of the Korean nation. The myth goes that a tiger and bear both prayed to the heavenly God to be human. The God told them to go into a cave for 100 days, eating only garlic and mugwort, and...
New York City
Over the past several decades, neuroscientists have been gathering a lot of data about how brains work. They’ve managed to map where some specific functions like movement, speech, and visual processing seem to happen, but our understanding is still about as nuanced as...
Complicated
I used to lead a get-to-know-you game with teenagers where I asked them to tell me everything important about themselves in under a minute. They would look panicky and start quickly listing facts, identities - “I play soccer, I have a little sister, uhhh, I’m in 9th...