Hitting the Sweet Spot

Hitting the Sweet Spot

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...
The Big Stuff is the Small Stuff

The Big Stuff is the Small Stuff

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...
The Penguin

The Penguin

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...
Leading Off the Map

Leading Off the Map

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...
Go Bananas!

Go Bananas!

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...