Category: News

  • A lesson on prepositions (& turning 40): This idea has been unpacked at great lengths in many places, but charities are oftentimes (rightly) criticized for…

  • 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…

  • Seated around the table were billion-dollar philanthropists, government gatekeepers, religious leaders, lawyers, environmentalists and everyday placemakers. Stated at the forefront of our time together…

  • What if?! No Creed references here, sorry. Something better. What if someone were to create a table BIG enough for a city’s major denominational,…

  • 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…

  • Perhaps this statistic has changed, but I remember hearing, quite frequently actually, the reality that 70% of nonprofits close their doors within their first…

  • 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.…

  • Palm Branches: We all have them. We all carry them. We usually all hold on too tightly to them. They are our hopes and…

  • This coming Saturday, Tim and I will run the REVEL Mt Charleston Marathon in Las Vegas. Often, when asked if I feel ready for…

  • The work of placemaking is inherently collaborative and inherently communal. For many churches, these dynamics can pose challenges. Over the last few decades, a…