The world’s big into innovation nowadays. We celebrate the innovators. But I believe a lot of what we call innovation is just good design. You see; innovation needs to help us do something we previously couldn’t do, or at least do it in a different way than we previously were able. So making a different-shaped…
I felt uncomfortable writing that headline, and I feel a bit uncomfortable writing this blog post. But I’ve come this far, so I’m finishing it. I work in the church industry. That sentence by itself is a bit uncomfortable, because the church was never intended to be an industry. “Worship music” makes about 40 million…
I almost let fear win last Monday. It looks like an issue of Sunday| Mag I’ve been counting on won’t be happening, and I had nothing for October 1st. The thing you need to know about Sunday| Mag is this: each month, I have to come up with twelve unique article ideas. Then I have…
A few mornings each week, I go for a run on a trail by my house. I have to do it early if I want to escape without having lost half my body weight in sweat. And on my way back from the run, I walk on a busy road where people are driving to…
I had the privilege of joining a man from Mexico on a podcast last week. He interviewed me about some of my projects for churches and how to infuse creativity into a church that might be resistant to such things. On these podcasts, I’m an open book. Everything I know that I think could be…
On Tuesday, I shared a video that I thought was absolutely hilarious. A reporter announced a new team member in the field that was about to be live on air for the first time. This was her debut story. Thanks, Mitch. “The people er been take du the. I bil gin top fin garb.” I…
If I were to ask the question, “who here is creative,” to a group of kids, I guarantee nearly all of them would raise their hands. But if I were to ask that same question to a group of adults, most would leave their hands down. What happened between childhood and adulthood? What changed? I don’t…
There are loads of great Christian sayings that circulate throughout the internet. They’re great because they’re short. But they aren’t always accurate. One of the ones I think of is: God’s not looking for ability. He’s looking for availability. I get that the saying is supposed to encourage those of us who think they have…
I remember reading an amazing book a few years back called Flatland. In the book, the author imagines a 2-dimensional world where everything is like simple shapes on a piece of paper. There’s no depth, just lines. And in order to introduce the idea of multiple dimensions, the 2-dimensional being meets a 3-dimensional person. The…
One of my favorite parts of the creative process is out-of-the-box thinking. I love looking at limitations and figuring out ways to blow past them. Not enough money? What if we get corporate sponsors. Not enough time? What if we crowdsource this idea to the people we’re trying to reach and let them help us.…