Interview with Mike Baughman

Mark and I had the privilege of writing the forward for Mike Baughman’s new book, Flipping Church (Discipleship Resources, 2016). Flipping Church shares stories from church planters who did (and, mostly, didn’t) follow standard advice as they launched “start-up...

Packing for Spain: The Blessings of Plan B

By: Kenda Creasy Dean So here’s how Trey Wince, my pastor, started our church staff meeting today. Anything seem odd, he asked, about these words from Paul, directed to the church at Rome? Now, with no further place for me in these regions, I desire—as I have for so...

Meet a Missional Entrepreneur: Rev. Mike Baughman

Rev. Mike Baughman is the founding pastor and Community Curator at Union, a coffee shop/hub of generosity and community in Dallas, TX. If you happened to walk by, you’d see that Union looks and acts like a buzzing coffee shop on the edge of Southern Methodist...

People Who Inspire Us #5

Katherine Leary Alsdorf: Founder and director emeritus of the Center for Faith and Work at New York City’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church. Katherine is co-author with Tim Keller of Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work (Dutton, 2013). She now works...

The Hatch-a-thon Experience: Rev. Laura Bratton

Guest post by the Rev. Laura Bratton, senior pastor of Laurens Road United Methodist Church in Greenville, South Carolina and Executive Director of Ubi Global. What in the world is a Hatchathon? I asked myself the same question when I learned about the Hatchathon...