Earlier this week, I spoke to a close friend of mine, Heather, who serves in jurisdictional youth ministry. She’s leading a youth mission trip this week. Since it's a jurisdictional trip, the teenagers on the trip are from a diverse swath of congregations and...

A few months ago, I was invited to be on the Ministry Architects Podcast. I’ve gotten to chat with them before, and Renee and I have been on projects together so this wasn’t a huge surprise, but the topic was. They wanted to talk about this blog. In particular, the...

Ahead of the Trinity Test, the first test of a nuclear weapon, there was serious (and not unfounded) concern among scientists that the bomb would ignite the nitrogen in the atmosphere, which would set off a chain reaction that would ignite all of the air on earth....