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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.
Living with It
I’ve been thinking a lot about the second season of Shiny Happy People. The documentary series spent its first season on the Duggar family (of "19 Kids and Counting" fame) and the larger cultural and religious infrastructure around their particular practice of...
High School Jeans
I was talking to a client from a small denominational tradition the other day about how to best support congregations struggling to keep up with their needed fundraising. She mentioned, in particular, that these congregations were sometimes extremely burdened by their...
The Cards You’re Dealt
A year ago, I read this book called Fair Play. The book was written for women trying to figure out how to manage the division of labor inside the household. The basic premise is that, in heterosexual couples, women tend to carry the lion’s share of domestic...
Steam Engine
In middle school, I learned the basics of thermodynamics via a little diagram of a steam engine. Arrows (red for hot, or blue for cold) showing water moving from one place to another, and simple equations on the sides, and we were meant to help us grasp basics of...
Removing the Dams
I recently met a Disciples of Christ pastor, Rev. AC Churchill, who was working for a ministry out in the Pacific Northwest called Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power and Light. I asked them what they were working on with the organization, and they started...
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...