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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.
Unbalancing Your Priorities
When Jesus, Jack, and Curly All Say the Same Thing By Mark DeVries and Laura Addis I’ve heard that until sometime in the late 1800’s, the word “priority,” (an Old English word meaning “first thing,” the thing that comes “prior to”) could never be found in the plural....
Special Edition of People Who Inspire Us
In this special edition of our People Who Inspire Us series, Mark talks with Meghan Easley about Missional Entrepreneurship. Registration is now open for one of our upcoming Hatch-a-thon: March 2-4, 2016 Hatch-A-Thon Institute for Youth Ministry...
Places that Inspire Us #2
Ideo is the world’s most powerful design firm with an open-source philosophy and a playful website that promises, “Solve anything creatively.” Ideo put design thinking on the map and is pretty much out to save the world. More resources here than a human can swallow,...
The Epic Is Out There
By Mark DeVries and Laura Addis Steve Hartman was an unknown broadcast journalist from Toledo, OH until he began a feature series called Everyone Has a Story. As he went in search of epic stories, he used a fascinating, unconventional technique. Hartman would throw a...
Interview with Mike Baughman
Mark and I had the privilege of writing the forward for Mike Baughman’s new book, Flipping Church (Discipleship Resources, 2016). Flipping Church shares stories from church planters who did (and, mostly, didn’t) follow standard advice as they launched “start-up...
Places that Inspire Us #1
Work of the People is the brainchild of filmmaker and visual liturgist Travis Reed (whose own faith story should probably be a movie of its own). An “ecumenical platform that produces and publishes multimedia to stir imagination, spark discussion, and move people...