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 | Big Ideas, Blog
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...
by Kat Bair | Jan 23, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
Who hasn’t been seduced by a container store? Or put their hopes in a planner? Who hasn’t hoped that maybe it would be this supplement, this productivity tool, this online class that would provide the change we’re looking for? How many ads do we get with headlines...
by Kat Bair | Jan 8, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
When I was in middle school, I remember thinking I didn’t feel like I thought “like a teenager,” but instead that I thought like a child some percent of the time, and an adult some percent of the time, and what people were reading as adolescence was just the average...
