by Kat Bair | May 27, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas, Client Stories
When I was in my late 20’s, a bunch of my college friends were getting married, and a strange thing kept happening at the weddings. I was working as a youth pastor at the time. For a lot of my friends, who hand flown from our alma mater in Ohio landed in impossibly...
by Kat Bair | May 20, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
I live in Tennessee, one of the few places where, if you know where to look, you can still find churches that have snakes under the floorboards. I got an email from a Dutch reader a few weeks ago (hi Kelvin), so if this needs explaining: beginning in the early 20th...
by Kat Bair | May 13, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
A local mental health professional was on an entrepreneurship podcast this past week, and he started talking about the impact of the mental health of leaders on their organizations. He said, “The anxiety you haven’t named in private shows up as decisions in public....
by Kat Bair | Apr 23, 2026 | Client Stories, Blog, Big Ideas
Last week, I sat in a meeting with a group of leaders at Brite Divinity School. and we discussed strategy for a new initiative focused, in part, on helping students clarify what they hoped to get from seminary, and prepare them for what they would do after. Dr. Callid...
by Kat Bair | Apr 9, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
My brother is an archivist. Specifically, he is a digital archivist, meaning that he spends his days editing and organizing the meta-data on digital files (things like the tags, what its titled, file formats, etc) to ensure that they are preserved long-term and can be...
by Kat Bair | Apr 2, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
In a meeting with church leaders last week, I offered a check-in question: what part of Holy Week was feeling most resonant with them? And more than one of them couldn’t name anything. They couldn’t name a single place where Holy Week mattered to them. They...