by Kat Bair | May 12, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
William and Mildred Wells were married scientists, conducting research on the spread of disease in the 1930’s. They were both outsiders to the scientific establishment, particularly of the fledgling field of microbiology. They postulated that germs were floating...
by Kat Bair | Apr 23, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
In the 1930s, a physicist studying the movement of the galaxies noticed something strange. Things were moving much faster than they should, and more strangely, in places where galaxies should be flinging themselves apart with their speed, they seemed to be held...
by Kat Bair | Apr 16, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
That old familiar body ache, the snaps from the same little breaks in your soul. You know when it’s time to go. I am lucky enough to be a leader in a community of several thousand called Women in Youth Ministry. There’s always conversation happening in our...
by Kat Bair | Apr 11, 2025 | Big Ideas, Blog
cw: sexual harassment, clergy abuse Last week, we started a series talking about, broadly, burnout, but more specifically, the ways in which church leadership can become devastatingly unhealthy for those who feel called to lead them, and the cost that unhealth can...
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...
