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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.
Inventing the Wheel
Recent archaeological discoveries are beginning to suggest a rather inauspicious beginning for one of humankind's most crucial innovations: the wheel. According to most recent evidence, the wheel wasn’t invented all at once, but gradually emerged among rural peasant...
Tuesday at 3 PM
Before I was in ministry, I worked in Northern Thailand working on human trafficking cases. We did everything from undercover investigations to prosecuting cases to helping children reintegrate in schools and providing vocational opportunities for their families. It...
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
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
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
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...