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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. 

Unserious

Unserious

“The trick is take being unserious very seriously” 1 Let me tell you a little about Kelly’s Mermaid Institute for Not Being Too Cool. Kelly is a middle school girl, who, on a trip with her family, wound up having some downtime in the hotel where they were staying. Her...

Paths Not Taken

Paths Not Taken

Matthew Haig’s blockbuster novel, the Midnight Library, opens with this haunting thought: Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how...

Yellowed Plastic

Yellowed Plastic

Artistic restoration has always had to strike a balance between preserving a piece in its original form, and allowing signs of the artworks history to give it the appropriate gravitas. We don’t really want our classic artwork in new, shiny frames, we like them to be...

Out of the Groove

Out of the Groove

My toddler son is very into trains, so I read a lot of books about trains. Recently, I learned something that has stuck with me: train tracks were invented by accident. Back in the days of horse and ox-drawn carts, the most well-trodden paths would eventually develop...

Snake Oil

Snake Oil

It's a funny cultural moment for people who call themselves pastors, or ministers, or church leaders. Because while it is, on one hand, a sacred calling, a fulfillment of often decades of work and commitment and deeply held conviction, it's also a bit… out of vogue....

Generalist

Generalist

For a long time, in the American public school system, everyone took roughly the same classes (maybe at higher or lower levels) up until they graduated high school, and then, they could go to a vocational school or an undergraduate institution and select a major. This...