Program Director Adam Borneman continues his conversation with Ben Garrett and Saya Guscott (The Hatchery at Emory) about choosing the right metrics, what church leaders could learn from start-up culture, and asking yourself the challenging question, "what would you do if what you did didn't...
The Macedonian Ministry Foundation, Inc. has received a grant of $5 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its National Storytelling Initiative on Christian Faith and Life 2025. This grant will support a new multi-year effort of The Ministry Collaborative (TMC) to cultivate a renewed culture...
The ten most popular Christmas carols include Silent Night, Away in the Manger, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, The First Noel, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear … but alas, Once in Royal David’s City only clocks in at #14. Here are a couple of...
Program Director Adam Borneman speaks with Saya Guscott and Ben Garrett (The Hatchery at Emory) about identifying with the "dones", the potential in being "content agnostic", and trusting in God's involvement....
Where Are Your Christmas T&P Valves? A Few Timely Reminders About our Calling and God’s Grace I’m sure we can all agree that the greatest scene in the history of Christmas-themed cinema is in Christmas Vacation when Clark Griswold has an unmitigated meltdown in front of his...
There is a story told about the great country music guitarist, Chet Atkins (1924-2001). One day, Atkins was in a recording session with several inexperienced musicians who struggled to keep up with his genius and creativity. Exhausted and exasperated, one of them finally blurted out,...
Program Director Adam Borneman speaks with LeAnna Morgan Key, Ellie Mosby, and the Rev. Sherrad Hayes (Union Baptist Church, West Point, GA) about what large churches can learn from the small congregation, deepening faith beyond a simple "how to" approach, and getting our hearts in...
In the 1930s, amid a world breaking down and lashing out, Langston Hughes wrote a poem that began: I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Nearly a century later, these words still resonate—perhaps more powerfully than ever. As...
The young man had done everything right. He kept the commandments, lived honorably, and when he encountered Jesus, he asked the best possible question: "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" Yet when Jesus answered—"Sell what you have, give to the poor, and follow...