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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.
The Numbers Do Lie
When you hear a headline that says “studies show” or “research suggests” the "proof" its referring to is normally statistical significance. Statistical significance is defined as correlation between two sets of data that has a less than 5% chance of happening...
Unhindered
One of my toddlers insists on coming to church with me. The church my family attends has a nursery that’s open throughout the service, but, increasingly often, one of my toddlers clings to me and says she wants to go to “big church.” I’m lucky enough to be home with...
The Wells
William and Mildred Wells were married scientists, conducting research on the spread of disease in the 1930’s. They were both outsiders to the scientific establishment, particularly of the fledgling field of microbiology. They postulated that germs were floating...
The (Un)Known Universe
In the 1930s, a physicist studying the movement of the galaxies noticed something strange. Things were moving much faster than they should, and more strangely, in places where galaxies should be flinging themselves apart with their speed, they seemed to be held...
Burnt: Part 3
That old familiar body ache, the snaps from the same little breaks in your soul. You know when it's time to go. I am lucky enough to be a leader in a community of several thousand called Women in Youth Ministry. There’s always conversation happening in our digital...
Burnt: Part 2
cw: sexual harassment, clergy abuse Last week, we started a series talking about, broadly, burnout, but more specifically, the ways in which church leadership can become devastatingly unhealthy for those who feel called to lead them, and the cost that unhealth can...