by Kat Bair | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
Before I was in ministry, I worked in Northern Thailand working on human trafficking cases. We did everything from undercover investigations to prosecuting cases to helping children reintegrate in schools and providing vocational opportunities for their families. It...
by Kat Bair | Jul 1, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
Matthew Haig’s blockbuster novel, the Midnight Library, opens with this haunting thought: Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how...
by Kat Bair | Jun 27, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
Artistic restoration has always had to strike a balance between preserving a piece in its original form, and allowing signs of the artworks history to give it the appropriate gravitas. We don’t really want our classic artwork in new, shiny frames, we like them to be...
by Kat Bair | Jun 10, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
It’s a funny cultural moment for people who call themselves pastors, or ministers, or church leaders. Because while it is, on one hand, a sacred calling, a fulfillment of often decades of work and commitment and deeply held conviction, it’s also a bit… out...
by Kat Bair | Jun 4, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
For a long time, in the American public school system, everyone took roughly the same classes (maybe at higher or lower levels) up until they graduated high school, and then, they could go to a vocational school or an undergraduate institution and select a major. This...
by Kat Bair | May 28, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
When you hear a headline that says “studies show” or “research suggests” the “proof” its referring to is normally statistical significance. Statistical significance is defined as correlation between two sets of data that has a less than 5% chance of...
