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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.
Attention is a Finite Resource
They say that all the technologies we’ve come to expect for free are paid for with our attention. That our focus is the valuable and finite resource we exchange for social media, email, and search engines. What makes it so valuable? The same thing that makes...
Going to be OK
I sat in a conference last week, and the keynote speaker, author Khristi Lauren Adams, told us she wanted to open with a quick meditation. She asked us to close our eyes and, for 30 seconds, to ponder a question: What if it was all going to be ok? What if those things...
A Robot Could Write this Blog
Today, we're featuring some thoughts from a very famous guest blogger on the potential role of AI in churches! Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent in today’s world, with applications ranging from healthcare and finance to entertainment and...
Mark Wahlberg’s 40-Day Challenge
You may have seen a screenshot floating around the internet of Mark Wahlberg on the Today Show from this past Wednesday. He’s describing a Lenten prayer practice he’s adopting and the lower third title card says “Mark Wahlberg’s 40 Day Challenge.” I can’t count the...
Giving up on the ‘Good Ole Days’
When Rev. Tim Jackson was appointed to lead Vestal United Methodist Church and Magnolia Avenue United Methodist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, they were dying congregations whose buildings were empty most of the time. Vestal UMC had a Christian education building...
100+ Ideas Not to Try
Ministry Incubators' newest product offering is the Hatch Deck. Developed by Rev. Dr. Kenda Creasy Dean and her team at Princeton Theological Seminary, the Hatch Deck is a deck of over 100 cards describing missional innovation ideas which we don’t think you should...