by Kat Bair | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
I had a meeting with a church leader the other day who told me, with a bit of hesitation, that, after almost ten years at their current church they were out. For good. They had felt the call, they had done good ministry, but the church had changed, the...
by Kat Bair | Mar 19, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
Some catfish can hunt by detecting the electrical current of their prey’s heartbeat, it’s a sense called electroreception. Scientists are just beginning to understand how electroreception works, and why the seemingly scattershot collection of animals who have it...
by Kat Bair | Mar 14, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
When I was 21, I got the chance to intern at the headquarters of a large, prestigious human rights organization in Washington, D.C. There was a class of 24 of us, and my fellow interns were some of the brightest people my own age I had ever met. They went to schools...
by Kat Bair | Mar 5, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
Last week, Pew Research released its annual Religious Landscape Study, which, for decades, has tracked trends on everything from church attendance to reports of personal spiritual practices across the United States. My guess is that you are familiar with their work,...
by Kat Bair | Feb 21, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
Our senses of smell are much better than we think they are. Humans can smell an odor-producing compound that exists at a level of 2 parts per billion of the air around them. Humans can actually smell at lower densities than dogs can.1 We just don’t know it. I was...
by Kat Bair | Feb 12, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas, Client Stories
I was leading an on-site recently, where we were talking about nurturing the lives of children in congregations, when a participant reflected that “We often make these broad statements about wanting to bring up young people and then never get to know them; proximity...
