Author: Matt Anderson

  • I VOTED For many, wearing that sticker on the first Tuesday in November serves as a badge of honor. For others who didn’t vote,…

  • “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18  As we partner with churches in the good and necessary work of placemaking, we…

  • Rabbi, what is the greatest commandment?  No matter how familiar this interaction from Mark 12 has become, to this day I remain surprised by…

  • ICYMI, these are exciting times at Flourish Placemaking Collective!  Tim recently shared the shift we’ve made to our organizational structure—a move to shared leadership…

  • “It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.”  This inherited wisdom from our mothers applies not only to surviving adolescence, but also cultivating…

  • To quote Rocky Balboa, “The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows.” Over the last month, we’ve shared some of our biggest highlights since embarking…

  • “Teamwork makes the dream work.” Not gonna lie, I throw up in my mouth a little bit when I hear that expression. But I…

  • Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or you just completely ignore our emails ), you are aware that we’ve changed our name from…

  • The wheels hit the tarmac on my flight home from Seattle around noon yesterday. I had just attended the Parish Collective’s Inhabit Conference, my…

  • We live in a culture that idolizes life and fears death. It’s everywhere. We witness it in the never-ending attempts to remain forever young.…