A new app named Are You Dead? encourages users to check in every two days to confirm that they are alive. It is now the most downloaded paid app in China, a country with a well-chronicled loneliness epidemic. The app will get in touch with...
A quick perusal of church newsletters and bulletins over the holidays left us wondering why so many announcements look like this menu board. If you arrive hungry or thirsty, good luck finding your way quickly to the items that meet your need. (By the way, “pancake...
Program Director Adam Borneman speaks with the Rev. Dr. Joe Scrivner (Stillman College, Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church), Lauren Floyd (Khora Counseling), and Dr. Stephen Sansom about authenticity and belonging, the digital challenge to proximity, and the critical importance of showing up....
Seth Godin offers a simple image for the start of the year that subtly critiques what “resolution” has come to mean in popular culture. The beginning of the year is a good time, he writes, to replace the tired spices in our kitchens: “The best,...
We are not suggesting that we bring “Joy to the World” back for one more rousing encore after the weeks just past. But we are thinking about the absolute joy of being Christ’s Church in this moment. It isn’t easy to talk about joy, as the...
Program Director Adam Borneman speaks with Lauren Floyd (Khora Counseling), Dr. Stephen Sansom, and the Rev. Dr. Joe Scrivner (Stillman College, Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church) about hope and despair, the pain of religious trauma, and what it looks like to embody love....
As we round out 2025, we wanted to revisit this conversation, one of our most listened to episodes, recorded back in March. Ministry Collaborative program staff (Adam Mixon, Beth Daniel, Mark Ramsey, and Adam Borneman) about the need to preach resurrection, when anxiety masquerades as...
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...