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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.
Havruta: The Worrier
This week, we’re continuing our Havruta series on how to most faithfully engage with and learn from those who push back on, doubt, and detract from your ideas. These can be volunteers, lay leaders, parents of young people you work with, investors, etc. Anyone who has...
Havruta: The Fighter
A few weeks ago, we started a series on how to engage with people who aren’t sure about your idea. We took a divergence (which I do not regret in the slightest) to talk about the Norrises, but I wanted to return to this: having people who give you push back on your...
The Norrises
When I met Mike and Jeannie Norris, they were the lay leader and finance chair, respectively, of a rural, small town church. It was a healthy, happy church with Sunday morning services with live music and preaching, board meetings, coffee and donuts after, a monthly...
Havruta
We at Ministry Incubators pretty much exclusively work with people who are in a state of profound change. Be they solo innovators, denominational bodies, or congregations, everyone we meet is in the messy emergence of something new. While every context is unique, and...
Singing Along
I grew up in Nashville, and was a kid who loved to sing from a very young age. I would perform for anyone who listened, and always wanted to be on stage. One of the upsides of being a kid who’s into performing in Nashville is that there are lot of opportunities. One...
Radical Emergence
Among those who study consciousness and evolutionary biology, there’s a question so basic and so unsolvable that it's simply called “the hard problem.”1 The hard problem is, in basic terms, how did the mind/soul/consciousness come to exist? When did creation as we...