The Justice Imagination Lab

The Justice Imagination Lab

Sometimes the most significant barrier between where we are and where we’re being called to go is simply a lack of imagination. We get easily sucked into patterns of what is and what always has been, so when we see an invitation to new work we are called into, we...
Great is Good, Repeatable

Great is Good, Repeatable

In high school, I was in color guard – not the military kind, the flag twirling kind. If you’re not from an area where this kind of thing is big, color guards perform as part of marching bands and dance and spin and throw flags, rifles, sabres, and sometimes...
Compelling Preaching

Compelling Preaching

Being a church leader is an incredibly multifaceted job. The role consists of all of the responsibilities of running a small nonprofit organization, a fair amount of crisis response, premarital counseling, social work, volunteer recruitment and management,...
The Hope of Seatbelts

The Hope of Seatbelts

In 2009, the Institute for Highway Safety staged a now-viral video where they crashed a 1959 Chevy Bel-Air into a 2009 Chevy Malibu. The point of the video, once it can be heard over the anguish of classic car enthusiasts, is that the very same accident that would...
The Loneliest Generation

The Loneliest Generation

There is an entire industry of research professionals with an obsessive eye towards whoever happens to be in the 18-25 bracket at the present moment, so they can best figure out how to sell them something. Just like 8 years ago, Time magazine ran a now much-maligned...
Introducing: Mission Possible

Introducing: Mission Possible

One of the most common limits faced by innovators is the nagging fear that way they are trying to do may just be impossible. There are too many obstacles, not enough resources, too much standing in between them and where they want to be. This fear causes leaders to...