by Kat Bair | Aug 9, 2022 | Big Ideas, Blog
Economics of Unlimited Growth If you’ve ever taken a high school economics class, you know that the essential visual tool of the economist is a line graph. Supply and demand curves, inflation curves, GDP curves, basically all of the significant ideas of economics can...
by Kat Bair | Jul 26, 2022 | Big Ideas, Blog
The Big Stuff In the early 20th century, astronomers spent a fair amount of time and energy trying to understand how big and old the universe was. This seemingly basic question stumped everyone from Edwin Hubble to Albert Einstein. When calculating a theory of general...
by Kat Bair | Jul 19, 2022 | Big Ideas, Blog
As part of one of Starter Suite video courses, you can hear Carmelle Beaugelin describe a ministry idea of hers as “a penguin.” A penguin? The image is of an idea that should fly but doesn’t. She goes on to explain that we have some ideas for our communities that it...
by Kat Bair | Jul 12, 2022 | Big Ideas, Blog
Earlier this week, Ministry Incubators had a group of leaders from the Hood Seminary Congregational Faith and Learning Center on a call. We were working through some discussions around revenue streams for their innovative projects when a participant interjected a...
by Kat Bair | Jun 28, 2022 | Big Ideas, Blog
America’s pastime is one of the least popular sports on national television, and one of the lowest attended major league sports. Why? It’s often just not that fun to watch. The particularities of the statistics and rules of the game mean that often the best...
by Kat Bair | May 31, 2022 | Big Ideas, Blog
There was a high school teacher who taught his students a call and response in his high school chemistry class. “What do you do when we encounter a problem we don’t know?” He would ask them, “Don’t panic!” They would shout in reply. “Why?”“Because you know more than...
