In 2006, Landscape Architecture student Peter Sommerlin conducted a simple study on playground architecture.1 He had two groups of pre-school students, the same age and from the same school, go to off-campus playgrounds with their teacher. One of the playgrounds was...

This is the second part of a series on the Compelling Preaching Cohorts of the Mountain Sky Conference, and in particular, what that project can teach us about environments that lead to true sustainability. I am conscious of this not sounding like a tally of my...

September 2026 will mark a full 3 years of me working with the Mountain Sky Conference of the United Methodist Church on the Compelling Preaching Cohorts, a Lilly Endowment funded program through the Compelling Preaching Initiative. Before those 3 years even began, I...