The Planes that Don’t Come Home.

The Planes that Don’t Come Home.

During World War II, researchers from the Center for Naval Analyses conducted a study on the damage found on aircraft after they returned from missions. The thinking was that they could reinforce those areas that were taking the most hits and make the planes more...
Salmon Thirty Salmon

Salmon Thirty Salmon

This blog is about sausage rolls and an airplane painted to look like a salmon.  I once worked at a church that accidentally stumbled into explosive growth with its contemporary service. The “service,” which was really more like a very one-sided Sunday school...
Devoted

Devoted

Last week, I wrote about the wonder of losing yourself in something every once in a while, and the beauty of being all-in. Sometimes. So I wanted to take a moment and talk about the other side of the coin, of how sometimes that total devotion even to the things of God...
Swiftie Spirituality

Swiftie Spirituality

Hello, my name is Kat Bair, I am 31 years old and I am a Swiftie – aka a fan of American musical icon, Taylor Swift. Being raised in Nashville in the 2000s meant that I, along with millions of other tween girls, spent my adolescence belting Teardrops on My...
The Justice Imagination Lab

The Justice Imagination Lab

Sometimes the most significant barrier between where we are and where we’re being called to go is simply a lack of imagination. We get easily sucked into patterns of what is and what always has been, so when we see an invitation to new work we are called into, we...
Great is Good, Repeatable

Great is Good, Repeatable

In high school, I was in color guard – not the military kind, the flag twirling kind. If you’re not from an area where this kind of thing is big, color guards perform as part of marching bands and dance and spin and throw flags, rifles, sabres, and sometimes...