Better together 🤝
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or you just completely ignore our emails 🙂), you are aware that we’ve...
From Montreal to Mandalore
Seated around the table were billion-dollar philanthropists, government gatekeepers, religious leaders, lawyers, environmentalists and everyday placemakers. Stated at the forefront...
What if? 🫣 💪 💥 💬
What if?! No Creed references here, sorry. Something better. What if someone were to create a table BIG enough for...
A return to the neighborhood church
The wheels hit the tarmac on my flight home from Seattle around noon yesterday. I had just attended the Parish...
Sweetness from this soil
Perhaps this statistic has changed, but I remember hearing, quite frequently actually, the reality that 70% of nonprofits close their...
Easter needs Good Friday
We live in a culture that idolizes life and fears death. It’s everywhere. We witness it in the never-ending attempts...
Palm branches & eye pokes
Palm Branches: We all have them. We all carry them. We usually all hold on too tightly to them. They...
Ready or not? 🏃
This coming Saturday, Tim and I will run the REVEL Mt Charleston Marathon in Las Vegas. Often, when asked if...
Trusting the process
The work of placemaking is inherently collaborative and inherently communal. For many churches, these dynamics can pose challenges. Over the...
Does God need us?
God is already here. In the gospel classic of the same name, the St. James Adult Choir proclaim, God is...
What do Jesus and Bill Murray have to teach us about our neighbors?
And who is my neighbor?… The lawyer inquires of Jesus, working his angles to try and test him. It’s the...
Whose story? 📖
There is great power in story. In fact, as we’ve often said, your story is one thing that can never...